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I am a bit late to the part as you've probably seen one already, but you can't go wrong with either. But I'd say A Tale of Two Sisters > Pulse > Dark Water. All are very good, but that's how I'd rate them quality-wise with A Tale... being superior to the others. Pulse is the most creepy out of them, though, and personally I put A Tale... and Pule on the same level. Equally good films.

Nope! I have it on my watchlist and it's been there forever now, but I've been kinda pushed off a bit by the poster, which kinda implies its a CGI-wankfest. But I checked IMDB and notice its mentioned that no CGI was used. Suddenly I'm not pushed off it anymore. Will watch it soon!

That second verse, man. Three god damn minutes. How cool is that? How good is that? Brilliant!

New supergroup with L-G Petrov (ex-Entobed and Nihilist), Fredrik Folkare (Unleashed, Necrophobic), Victor Brandt (Totalt Jävla Mörker), Matte Modin (ex-Dark Funeral) and Alex Friberg (Necrophobic). Decent enough song, but the rest have to be a lot better than to get a spot in my collection. Heard it all before, often much better. But damn, that delivery by L-G Petrov is great. Powerful as fuck by one of the coolest guys in the genre.

Anyone seen this? Looks kinda cool, even though it looks really amateurish. The concept sure as fuck is cool! Before even seeing the film I want to remake it Ray Harryhausen-style with the classic look of the Universal Monsters and Hammer Horror creatures.

This EP is great! The songs isn't too far from the originals, but they've given them an Acid Witch-ish overhaul and it works really well. Really cool EP! Highly recommended!

Yeah, it's cool as fuck. People always moan about how close minded metal fans are, and especially black metal fans, and yet you can throw in a band like Perturbator in a black metal festival to massive amount of applause. It was a well-recived booking among the people who went to the festival. The line up was this: Urfaust (hol) Svartidauði (ice) Drowned (ger) Misþyrming (ice) Cult Of Fire (cze) One Tail, One Head (nidaros) Clandestine Blaze (fin) Mgła (pol) Negative Plane (usa) Pseudogod (rus) Mare feat. Lamia Vox (nidaros/rus) Archgoat (fin) Antaeus (fra) Nyogthaeblisz (usa) Nightbringer (usa) Bölzer (ch) Dark Sonority feat. Kaosritual (nidaros) Perturbator (fra) The Ruins Of Beverast (ger) Lvcifyre (uk) Aosoth (fra) Sinmara (ice)

It's surprising they didn't try to team up Perturbator, Carpenter Brut and Gost. They'd fit very well together. Anyway, I am jelly as fuck! On you seeing both bands. Fuck you! Interesting how one of Perturbator's first concerts were at a black metal festival. Evil synth music for the win! Fuck you for getting Carpenter Brut as well.

The cover for the new Cult of Fire album. That looks incredible! I can't wait. An old Cult of Fire track:

I'm thinking more about the quality of the shredding, both on the technical and innovative level. I'm not guitarist and there's a chance I'm way off here, but I get the impression he's slightly struggling with the shreds he wrote for himself. Like he's not quite capable to pull them off or something. It all just sounds very sloppy and a bit messy. But as I said, they may have been pulled off perfectly and it's just me who's way off.

Ideas for the next album. I could scrap all of them though. Mmmmh! Yes, please, go on, Mirai.

That unreleased film from 1994 is great. It's highly recommended by Roger Corman-fanboy Bear. So buy yourself a six-pack of beer, invite some good friends over, make some spicy food and watch the god damn film, boys and girls. It's totally worth it, at least if you're a fan of trash cinema. I recently found out about two Batman flicks which looks amazing. Unofficial of course, but Alyas Batman at Robin (1965) and Alyas Batman en Robin (1991) looks so good. My kind of trash! Damn, that looks good!

Santo in the Wax Museum - Great horror film from 63, and more or les son the same level as Santo vs. the Vampire Women. They use the same formula here; it's built the same way, and they've found their major influence in a couple of other films. This great film draws, as you probably understand by its title, heavily from House of Wax, but also from The Island of Doctor Moreau. It's cheesy and it's campy, but it's just really fun. I really liked this film, and the shots in the wax museum, both the shown and hidden side of it, are excellent. Great atmosphere, and some of these wax figures should be familiar to all fans of horror. Also, fuckign Santo, man. Running around in his silver mask and tights with a cape on, running around beating bad guys and shit. Yet, right in the middle of everything, with people disappearing and shit, he says something like this "I can't now, I gotta go wrestle". He actually does this twice in the middle of everything. How funny is that? Great film! Santo vs. Blue Demon in Atlantis - Ah, this was disappointing. This time we jump from 1963 to 1970, and Santo stars in this film alongside another wrestler, Blue Demon, another wrestler who's considered one of the best wrestlers ever in Mexico. Santo and Blue Demon were never good friends in real life, and were rivals in the ring, but they starred in 9 films together, and this is the first I see with both of them in it. It's very cool to see them both in the same film, but the film itself was a disappointment. Not because it sucks, but it just isn't as good as the others I've seen. And this isn't a horror film like the others either, this is a action-mystery spy-flick. The film actually starts with scenes from Invasion of Astro-Monster, the 6th Godzilla film, and probably some other films as well, which itself is incredibly cool, but from there on it goes down despite having neo-nazis with names taken from Greek mythology, Atlantis, conquest from space and god knows what. The cheese and camp factor is again high, but just not as fun as in the previous films. Entertaining film, but not the Santo film I'd recommend first. Zombeavers - A very nice and funny b-film about, well, the title says it all, doesn't it? It's as stupid as it sounds, but also very fun at the same time. However, this had every element needed to become a classic trash film, but somewhere along the road it loses focus. Stupid is good, but some of the choices taken by the writers an directors suck at time. It just gets too stupid, at least for me. But I was entertained. The animatronic (yes, not CGI but animatronic!!!) beavers looks amazing and there's some lovely special effects here as well. But at times the special effects looked like crap too, which is a shame. But that was just a few times. Also, the three female leads impressed me. None of them great actors, but the chemestry was there and they seemed to really enjoy this. The thre male leads however, not so much. Wasn't impressed by them. They didn't seem to have a clue as to what they were doing. Wish there was more nudity, though. It sounds stupid, but films like this and nudity goes hand in hand.

I agree with everything. As soon as it went supernatural is went to hell. A 5/10 for me, with a great first half and a poor second half. Very poor. The film deserves a re-writing and a remake. I am serious.

But on the positive side I'm having a lunch break all alone, something which is highly underrated. Listening to Acid Witch, eating food and drinking coffee. Lovely!

I overslept for the first time in my working career. Awful. I started 0900, and first now, 1245 am I getting my first cup of coffee. So close to suicide now.

I am working with the new first graders who started last thursday, and this is serious some tiring shit. 90% of my day consists of cleaning up their mess, comfort crying kids and make sure they have something to play with. Ew. Not my type of thing at all. 2nd, 3rd and 4th-graders (and all the way up to 10th) > 1st graders. They are basically kindergarten kids still, and that shows. They're just way too childish for me to be able to get down on their level. The only good thing about working with kids below 2nd grade are hot mom's with incredible bodies, which there's a couple of. And they tend not to be afraid of showing it as well. Heh. But it's that boring. Ugh. This is gonna be a long year unless I'm placed on someone with special needs or moved up with the older kids.

Shit, I forgot The Nail Gun Massacre. Awesome film! It's just so fucing bad.

Some of my best z-grade movies: Plan 9 from Outer Space Manos: the Hands of Fate Monster a Go-Go Troll II The Astro-Zombies Invasion from a Planet / Invasion of the Neptune Men Prince of Space The Wild World of Batwoman The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? Robot Monster Night of the Ghouls The Horror of Party Beach Most of these films are from the 50's and 60's as those two decades were just incredible for these kind of films. Especially within the realm of horror and sci-fi. Magnificent stuff!

Oh yeah! I love me a good z-grade film along with some beers and something good to eat. Heaven! Will make a list when I get home from work.

With z-grade I assume you're talking about stuff like Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Astro-Zombies, Troll 2 and stuff, or something else?

Indeed! I can easily recommend Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau, which is currently streaming on Netflix. Great documentary.

It is. Crazy film. Great, surrealistic tale, high on the bisarre-factor and with some of the coolest and most original special effects shown on screen even to this day. Genius film! But the violence in films such as Braindead, Tokyo Gore Police, and the slapstick splatter genre in general isn't supossed to be realistic. It's just supossed to be very fun and over the top. It's been very over the top ever since Herschell Gordon Lewis set up and defined the genre in the 60's and early 70's with films such as Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs!, Color Me Blood Red, The Wizard of Gore and so on. There's a high cheese factor in these films, with over the top, unrealistic gore and lots of blood (for its time), something that've been present ever since. And I think the blood and gore in Cold FIsh is very cartoonish too, just so it's said. But the overall tone in the film is different from, say, Blood Feast and Braindead. It's a dark, bleak and macabre film. Black humour is present, but it's still something completely different. Good film! ANd let me just add that Herschell Gordon Lewis was a genius! Not a great filmmaker by any means, but a genius nonetheless.

I have no idea how you could forget it. Maybe you just didn't think of it as a horror film, but more a fantasy film? I know plenty sees it as a fantasy film opposed to a horror film. I thought YOu're Next was hilarious at times. The humour was a bit "hidden", so to speak. Dark, bleak humour. What catching up, boy? Any of the films you plan on seeing? Also, some of the films that were very close to make it onto my list was: Hausu, a really odd, surreal and bisarre Japanese horror film Hold That Ghost, another Abbott & Costello flick. Awfully funny film. The Cat and the Canary, both the one from 27 and the one from 39. Supreme films! Young Frankenstein, lovely spoof of the 30's horror films, especially Universal Monsters and Frankenstein. The Slumber Party Massacre, silly slasher comedy that toally rocks! A few of the ones I was thiiiis close to adding. On another day several of these would've made the list. Glad to hear you liked The Mummy. Fantastic film! I wear my The Mummy t-shirt with pride, and most of the kids I work with think it's cool as fuck.

That's quite a surprising song quality-wise. Sound-wise I hear nothing new and nothing they haven't done before, but it sounds pretty cool. I expect another DIM, though. A few good songs, some mediocre ones and some godawful ones that I'll rank among the worst songs ever made by man. I hope I am wrong, but this is Gazette after all.