Sharktopus & Cheetah Whores

Okay. So I saw Sharktopus. :) Yes. A BIG smile!

I’ve been waiting for SyFy to air this movie ever since I saw the trailer a few months ago, and I gotta say I was not disappointed. This was everything I had hoped for!
That is to say, it fully lived up to my expectations of having lousy acting, bad production, horrible effects and everything else you have learned to live from SyFy.
If you are into the campy horror movies and can watch it all go down with a smile, I fully reccomend this. Wife and I laughed our butts of. This was so much fun.
One thing that really is a much higher standard than the rest of the movie is the soundtrack.
The tone is set early on by the Cheetah Whores, who have the title song out on their brand new album. Check ‘em out, they really rock! :)

EDIT: I have now purchased the album myself, and taken it with me to work and listened to it a few times. I gotta say, this is a great little CD. Good, fun, straight forward rock and roll, borrowing styles from pretty much all the shelves. I find hints of punk, 50's rock, classic rock, surf rock, psychedelic, rockabilly and so many other styles in there. Even a hint of The Beatles is to be found in the beginning of "I Lost Myself".

The songs are well constructed, catchy and well performed, and pretty much every single track managed to get my foot stomping away on the beat and brought out a little smile on my face, making this a very pleasurable day at work.

Coming from Rochester, NY and been in the music business since 2006, these gals (and one guy) really sound like they know what they want and what they are doing.

I wish I could compare this CD to something else that I own - to better describe them - but Cheetah Whores are really a different beast, they found their style, stick to it and do it well. They are completely themselves, yet strangely recognizable.

But what am I talking about? I don't need to describe - Just check out the music player below, crank the volume to 11 and put on your best Party Army Boots - I think you will like these folks.

Their album hit the street on September 24th, 2010, so this is brand new. Now, be careful listening. It’s highly addictive!

The Big Four - Live from Sofia, Bulgaria blu-ray release pending - 1990’s Clash Of The Titans revisited!

 

I used to be a fan of them all. Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. Today, I still follow on the sideline, and I am really excited about the “Big Four” blu-ray release coming up.

 

AMAZING video below.

I am no huge fan of either band any longer, I have to admit. Especially Metallica have let me down a little too often, with music releases of ridiculously low standard. They seem to have forgotten what metal is all about. Honestly, I lost a lot of respect for them after watching the “Some kind of monster”-movie. I have seen and heard various releases and bootlegs, and with a few exceptions here and there I don’t really find them to be a very good live act any longer. Back in the day they were a “must-see” live act, and we would always go. Metallica is probably the band I have seen the most times live.

 

 

 

Anthrax, I have to admit, has slowly slid out of my musical view, though I still own Among the Living and hear it every now and then. I have heard most of their most recent stuff, and some of it is really good. It just never really stuck. I do dig the song “What Doesn’t Die” from a few years ago. Super track!

 

 

 

Slayer have all my respect in the world, though they are probably the band that I dislike the most. They are a little too hard for my taste – especially getting older – but I deeply admire them for never losing focus and never selling out. I have seen Slayer live several times and they have always delivered – also in their latter years. Boy, could Metallica learn from them!

 

Megadeth? These days, my absolute favorites of the four bands. They still rock, they are still tight as a metal machine, they still write great albums and they are still a killer live act. What more can you ask for.

 

I know. It doesn’t really sound like I am very interested in the topic I am writing about.

 

However, spending an evening in the company of ALL of them, makes me giddy like a thirteen year old on his way to his first metal concert.

These guys were the all on the soundtrack of my youth, or at least a very large part of it. One of my favorite albums to date is still Metallica's Master Of Puppets - there is simply no metal album better.

I gotta say I was excited when they announced the Big 4 shows, and disappointed that I would not be able to attend one. This would have been a great revisit to my youth where we saw (most of) them live several times.

I fondly remember going to KB Hallen in Copenhagen on October 10th, 1990 for Clash Of The Titans, a gig somewhat similar to this, featuring Suicidal Tendencies, Testament, Megadeth and Slayer. I guess that was as close to a "Big 4" that could be done back then with all the rivalry between Megadeth and Metallica, but it was a great, fun time and a concert I will never forget. I am glad that I was completely oblivious to the feuds within the bands at the time. This night was ROCKIN’!

Now, 20 years later, it seems like almost "meant to be" that I get another shot at a Clash Of The Titans kind of gig with the upcoming blu-ray "The Big 4 - Live From Sofia, Bulgaria that is coming out 15th of October - almost 20 years to the date of my fond memory. With unconpressed audio on blu-ray, a five(!) hour concert event with additional 45 minutes of documentary running time, this should be rattling the speakers severely and be the perfect excuse to get the guys together for a couple of cold beers!

It is well worth noticing that Anthrax and Megadeth joins Metallica on stage for "Am I Evil?" during Metallica's set (I wonder what Slayer were doing? I only see Dave Lombardo on the snare – maybe they don’t play sissy commercial junk like Diamond Head?), and also that Anthrax supposedly does a Ronnie James Dio tribute playing a snippet of "Heaven and Hell" during "Indians".

 

 

The DVD cover for this release has just been made public, and it features the setlist for the concerts. These are uncut, full concerts from the Sonisphere festival, and it sound like an evening worth spending in its company. Details below.

ANTHRAX track listing:

01. Caught In A Mosh

02. Got the Time

03. Madhouse

04. Be All, End All

05. Antisocial

06. Indians/Heaven And Hell

07. Medusa

08. Only

09. Metal Thrashing Mad

10. I Am The Law

MEGADETH track listing:

01. Holy Wars... The Punishment Due

02. Hangar 18

03. Wake Up Dead

04. Head Crusher

05. In My Darkest Hour

06. Skin O' My Teeth

07. A Tout Le Monde

08. Hook In Mouth

09. Trust

10. Sweating Bullets

11. Symphony Of Destruction

12. Peace Sells/Holy Wars Reprise

SLAYER track listing:

01. World Painted Blood

02. Jihad

03. War Ensemble

04. Hate Worldwide

05. Seasons In The Abyss

06. Angel of Death

07. Beauty Through Order

08. Disciple

09. Mandatory Suicide

10. Chemical Warfare

11. South of Heaven

12. Raining Blood

METALLICA track listing:

01. Creeping Death

02. For Whom The Bell Tolls

03. Fuel

04. Harvester Of Sorrow

05. Fade To Black

06. That Was Just Your Life

07. Cyanide

08. Sad But True

09. Welcome Home (Sanitarium)

10. All Nightmare Long

11. One

12. Master Of Puppets

13. Blackened

14. Nothing Else Matters

15. Enter Sandman

16. Am I Evil? (with the Big Four)

17. Hit The Lights

18. Seek and Destroy

I am sure this was a night to remember that evening in June, and I know it will be a night to remember watching it on the big screen at home in October.

 

This will of course also be released as a DVD, though I find the blu-ray much more interesting.

 

Should you opt for the DVD, you also have the choice of a deluxe box set which also contains 5 CDs with the full show. This boxset is already available for preorder at www.metallica.com – though I find dishing out $100 for this a little steep.

 

I will be more than happy when my blu-ray is sitting in my player, video projector is on and sound is cranked up! 

Of course, once I get my grabby little hands on this, a thorough review will be posted.

Snobrød!

Yesterday, we went to see my brother and his family. It has been great spring/summer weather lately and I have had an enourmous craving for BBQing. However, we do not have neither a BBQ or a back yard so what is one to do?

I decided to call my dear brother Torben and invite us to go see him and his family! We all agreed to do snobrød (kind of like Pigs in Blankets) at their open fire place in the back yard.

The weather was great, we got some great food, great company and some great videos and photos to prove it!

I shot the video, edited it on my phone.

Monique shot photos (and ocasionally the finger). See them here.

Star Wars Remake!

This was an entry in the "Be Kind Rewind" contest. Enjoy.

Satan Zombies!

I came across this movie the other day. Very interesting, if nothing else then because of the oddity of it. This little gem is called Satan's Baby Doll, Orgasmo Di Satana, or, more charmingly in this German DVD release, which is the only full length uncut version, Dr. Porno and his Satan Zombie!

I love old horror movies and the 70's sleaze (though this is from 1980 or 1982 depending where you look) and exploitation movies. This has to be the perfect mix.

Sadly, it doesn't have either Danish or English subtitles and the DVD is in German and Italian. Oh well. it's still worth watching...

I foung this describtion of the movie on IMDB:

"A wealthy dirtbag with a taste for smack throttles his philandering wife in a fit of rage after discovering her illicit lesbian affair with the sexy, shapely nun employed to care for the man's invalid brother. During her funeral she possesses the body of her sexy teenage daughter and over the course of the film compels the girl to bring about the deaths of everyone in the household that the woman had slept with.
Which was all of them, at one point or another, including a sinister looking butler who was apparently dabbling in the black arts down in his private little satanic shrine in the catacombs near the family crypt and somehow enabled the woman's allegiance to Lucifer.
Or, something like that. Legends abound that this was originally a full-blown hardcore sex film though the only surviving prints amount to a roughly 72 minute (PAL 25fps: all known versions are PAL transfers) celebration of moods and deviancy that is deceptively tame looking. Lesbianism, necrophilia, voyeurism, incest, drug abuse, and cold-blooded murder from beyond the grave prevail as director Bianchi sets a deliberate, meditative pace that wallows in the film's ornate, Gothic trappings, all of it set to a decidedly melancholy and evocative keyboard/vocal musical score by Nico Catanese that gives it all an air of sadness that is distinctively at odds with the rather high sleaze quotient."

Fortunately, the version that I got hold of is the UNCUT 85 minute version, so all the nasty parts are there in their full glory. I love the way the movie looks all scratched up whenever the sex bits are playing. I suppose there was some kind of "fast forwarding" going on in those grindhouse theaters way back.

I just hope that one day I will find a version with a set of subtitles that I will actually understand (either that or take my Italian to a higher level).

There is an american release on DVD of this, but it is cut down from 85 to 73 minutes.

I did some screen captures so you can enjoy this too. It's slow paced but lots of fun in it's sheer tackyness.

 

I love the grain of those old movies. The color and the tone just sets the mood from the beginning. It makes me want to turn off all the lights, get a nice glass of red wine or a beer, some chips and sit back and enjoy yet another great movie from the 70's.

Why don't they make movies like this any more? Sure, they are junk. Sure, they probably didn't make too much money. But they are a hell of a lot more entertaining than most of the junk produced today.

How I hope to find an uncut US release of this some day.

The Right To Rock!

Growing up in a little town in tiny Denmark, we suffered from an almost total lack of rock music. We had one television station (the 2nd station aired in 1988!) and three radio stations, one for public info, one for classical music and one for popular music. Sadly, hard rock and metal, which was the music I listened to, was not in the "popular" category. We had no rock music radio, no MTV. Nothing. My source for discovering all this wonderful music was mainly my brother, who gave me my first vinyl album, Deep Purple's Made In Japan. What an awesome album that still is today. I have bought it numerous times in different versions over the last 30 years, never getting tired of it.

In a small town like mine, being a teen that didn't listen to the music all the other ones would listen to, made me sometimes feel very out of place. However, it never made me feel lesser than them. I kind of had the "such a shame they don't know any better" view on my class mates that were into the horrible pop music of the 80's. Me, I never found it interesting until I grew up a bit and starting being nostalgic about my younger days. Today I can better stomach it and actually find it fun now and then.

Learning about new rock and metal music happened mostly through friends, we would always get recordings of each other albums, and that way expanding our music libraries. However, I did have one other source. At Kvickly, the local supermarket, they had a little electronics department. Outside their department was a TV that would be playing the new hit videos from the flavor of the day artists. I remember seeing the "Tears are falling" video with Kiss, the "Looks That Kill" video from Motley Crue.

And then there was Keel. This one really hit home, because the video dealt with kids rebelling against the uptight adults that banned rock music. That was exactly how I felt. In the video is this AWESOME kid, rocking out the best he has ever learnt. I think I could TOTALLY identify with this kid. That was how I pictured myself. How did Keel know how a little Danish boy felt about metal? I was amazed.

I found the video to the song on YouTube today. I am today happy to say that I did NOT look like that kid in the video, even though I wanted to so badly. The song has always stuck with me, the title, "The Right To Rock" still goes. When my wife asks me if I can do something for her, I always answer "You got it" and adds.. "The Right To Rock". She looks at me like if I was some kind of retard, and I always try to explain this video to her. She doesn't fully get it, I think. I think you had to be there.

Anyways, I included the video in this post, watch and learn how to ROCK, and enjoy.

You got it... THE RIGHT TO ROCK!

Diary Of The Dead trailer released!

It's finally out! The long awaited trailer for George Romero's Diary Of The Dead. This is surely one not to be missed.

Trailer looks promising, and I love the poster!

 

Looks like fun, doesn't it?

Here is a review from Fangoria:

DIARY OF THE DEAD

Reviewed by CHRIS ALEXANDER

Chris sez…

When George A. Romero first announced plans to scale himself back, returning to his low-budget, independent roots after the high-gloss horror of 2005’s controversially studio-controlled LAND OF THE DEAD, true fans of the man rejoiced. When further details were revealed about the picture in question, however—promising first-person, pseudodocumentary camera antics—many of those very same fans promptly recoiled. On paper, the film read like a postmodern BLAIR WITCH PROJECT-esque stunt with Romero’s flesheating ghouls thrown in simply to give the film commercial heft. Some even argued that the whole thing reeked of an aging genre filmmaker vainly attempting to prove that he still had something relevant to say.

How utterly, cosmically wrong those nervy naysayers were.

DIARY OF THE DEAD, which had its world premiere September 8 at the Toronto International Film Festival, is quite simply one of the most daring, hypnotic and absolutely vital horror films of the past decade. It is without a doubt the signature work of a man who, at the seasoned age of 67, has miraculously kept his long fingers squished squarely on the fevered pulse of the collective North American political and cultural psyche. It’s also Romero’s most profoundly personal, eccentric and accomplished work since 1979’s landmark satirical zombie masterpiece DAWN OF THE DEAD, and in many ways feels like a stylistic kissing (biting?) cousin to his even more avant-garde 1977 vampire film MARTIN.

Ostensibly another reboot of the undead mythos the filmmaker established in 1968’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, DIARY casts a troupe of new-to-semi-pro young actors as film students who, after witnessing the zombie dawn while on a remote movie shoot, travel cross-country in their rickety Winnebago, hi-def camera in tow, documenting the entire apocalyptic mess while trying to avoid becoming undead hors d’oeuvres. The key visual gimmick is that lead voyeur and self-appointed director Jason (THE EXORCISM OF EMILY ROSE’s Joshua Close) is rarely on screen, as his gawking lens is the one Romero chooses to follow. It’s a bold experiment for the director, introducing such stylistic guerrilla tactics to his standard turf—but he makes it work, thanks to technically innovative storytelling (our heroes are supposedly the ones editing the movie we see, and thus splice in footage of themselves captured on existing security cameras) and liberal—perhaps sometimes too liberal—doses of the writer/director’s trademark social criticism (this time, Romero’s target is our desensitized, “live or Memorex” media-obsessed culture).

There’s also a series of gleefully revolting, prosthetically created (by Gaslight Studios), CGI-goosed, blood-spattered money shots and some surprisingly broad laugh-out-loud humor. Watch out for the deaf-mute Amish farmer who scribbles on slates and gets very creative with a scythe. The performances by Shawn Roberts (who also appeared in LAND OF THE DEAD), Amy Lalonde and Michelle Morgan are effectively organic, and the film possesses a general low-tech eeriness, coupled with an aching sense of loss that sucks you in and keeps you glued to the screen.

Outlandish, expressionistic and absolutely, disorientingly alive, DIARY OF THE DEAD is the movie that Romero’s legion of cultists—this critic included—have been screaming for: a fascinating, almost art-house railing against a mad, mad world. It’s not the work of an old man, but of a cinematic enfant terrible with plenty of welled-up bile ready to spit on his would-be successors. Bon appetit.

Harry Potter Naked!

Yeah... I know... old. However, one can NOT resist the chance of traumatizing a new Potter fan... :)

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Half Blood poster!

...and here it is... the first poster for the next Harry Potter movie, "...and the Half Blood Prince".

I really like the story, I really like the movies. So sue me. :)

I am very curious as to how this movie will be. I really enjoy the darkness of the latter movies and I hope they will stick with it. Nothing like a good goth adventure.

Before Spider-Man

Years and years and years before the Spider-Man movies, there was...

Machine Girl

Supposedly, this movie is coming out this year! I can't wait. It looks both fun, violent and original (though Robert Rodriguez beat them to the Machine Gun limb in Planet Terror - and of course legendary Ash from Housewares wore something similar in Army Of Darkness).

This will definitely be in my collection ASAP!