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4/14/2017

Horror Crush: Bianca Bradey

Today, I induct Australian beauty Bianca Bradey into this website's Horror Crushes section. Something this talented vision of exquiste beauty very much deserves.
Like I most, I first saw Bradey in her breakthrough role in the modern masterpiece Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014). That movie is truly fucking amazing!!! A killer mix of Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead, it is the finest zombie flick since Shaun of the Dead. I truly and simply adore that movie.
Anyways, Bradey plays Brooke, a young woman caught up in a zombie outbreak. While, her brother is out looking for her, a mad scientist is experimenting on her. The end result of which is one of the coolest and most original things I have ever seen in a zombie movie. Brooke is fucking badass, and with a single movie she stands right next to other horror/ action heroines like Ripley in the Aliens franchise or Selene from the Underworld movies. She kicks some serious ass, and Bradey's excellent acting abilities rival her unbelievable beauty.
And, what a truly stunning vision of perfection she is! I was taken and smitten with her within mere seconds of seeing her onscreen. By the end of the movie, I was officially in love. She is, and this is NOT hyperbole, one of the most unquestionably beautiful women that genre has been graced with. The films stands as cinematic proof of that, especially with the skimy outfit that she has on.
 
 
A year later, in 2015, she appeared as a character named Sam in an Australian, anthology horror flick, A Night of Horror Volume 1, that was directed by 10 filmmakers. Sadly, this one has never been released in the US, so I have never seen it. Shit, until doing my research for this, I hadn't even heard about it! Here is hoping we do soon get a chance to see it!
She has lots of projects lined up, according to her IMDb. Among them is a proposed Wyrmwood series, where she would be reprising her role of Brooke!! That would be awesome if it really happens! Done right it would give that overrated crapfest The Walking Dead a run for its money! It could challenge iZombie for best zombie show on TV! But, we are getting way ahead of ourselves, here...
 
Bianca Bradey hasn't done that much horror. But, she's in a fucking killer movie that is loved by anyone who has seen and is critically acclaimed. She is also young and will hopefully be gracing our genre again and sooner than later. An excellent actress with beautiful, breathtaking eyes, an amazing body, and a flawless, beautiful face, Bradey is a true Horror Crush!

6/27/2012

THE LOVED ONES

Title: The Loved Ones
Director/ Writer: Sean Byrne
Cast: Xavier Samuel, Robin McLeavy, Vicotoria Thaine, Jessica McNamee, Richard Wilson, John Brumpton
Date: 2009 (but finally released in US in 2012)
Min: 84

Brent (Xavier Samuel), the handsome metalhead, was involved in an accident that caused his father's death a year earlier. He lives with that regret. But, now he is a high school senior and is ready to take his pretty girlfriend, Holly (Victoria Thaine), to the prom. When cute Lola (Robin McLeavy) asks him out to the prom; he rejects her. He is too soon regret, this. While, listening to music and chilling with his dog, he gets kidnapped by her insane Daddy (John Brumpton). He is tied to a chair and forced to be her prom date where he endures such tortures as being forced to pee, having salt thrown on his fresh wounds, getting knives hammer into his feet, and more. Inter-cut between all of this is his friend Jamie (Richard Wilson) going on his prom with breathtaking goth beauty Mia (Jessica McNamee), who we discover more about as the movie progresses, as well as Brent's mom and girlfriend, who try desperately to find out what has happened to him. All this time Brent has to with stand the horrid torture he is recieveing, but how long can he last?

Made in 2009, but only now getting a release here in the US, this amazing Australian horror film is destined to be a future classic. It has been getting a lot of praise, all of which it deserves, as it is the single best horror film to come out of the country ever, and the best movie to come from Down Under since The Road Warrior. Byrne has crafted a funny, nasty, sometimes disturbing, and pretty much always intense teen horror flick, that is best described as Pretty in Pink meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 
There is a great sense of dark humor that makes the movie quite funny, ranking it as one of the best black comedies out there. That said, it also is nail-bitingly suspenseful. The gore and violence is hard and vicious, cutting between what you see and what you don't see. Excellent gore effects keep this out of the safe zone, at all times. And, I was, quite honestly, on the edge of my seat when the climax finally hit.  
Much of this is not just due to credit of the excellent script and directing, but the acting, as well. Without such fine performances this one would have fallen apart. Samuel is a likable and strong protagonist. You cheer for him and are always on his side. Besides, he's a metalhead! It's always great to see a headbanger play the hero! McNamee is a goddess! I was seriously in love with her in this movie. She smokes pot, drinks, headbangs, and is both sexy and sympathetic. She is my new horror crush! A stunning beauty that looks like the hotter offspring of Angelina Jolie and Liv Tyler, she actually a big star in her native country. Brumpton is positively terrifying as a Daddy, a man who would do anything for his princess. But, it's the cute McLeavy that is the movie's standout. She is both cute and completely bat-shit crazy. Even if you crush on her at first, you will be cheering for her death, as the movie progresses, trust me. This is just such proof of the excellent quality that the movie has.
Those of you looking for some skin, will be happy, too. Thaine gets topless. McNamee also gets topless, but sadly covers the goods. That said she gives the movie's sexiest performance. You will be in love, trust me! McLeavy appears in bra and panties, so we get a little bit of skin from each of the movie's three females leads. But, it should be noted that when we see McLeavy in said state of semi-undress her dad is looking at her in a moment that will add to the disturbing aspect of this masterpiece.

Unquestionably, one of the year's best horror films, The Loved Ones, is a movie you need to see. I haven't been able to stop talking or thinking about this one, since I viewed it yesterday. And, the more, I do think about it, the more I like it. There are lots of suprises throughout the film, but I don't wanna ruin them for you. Just see it as soon, as you are able to!!


**** out of ****