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7/07/2014

CHIMERES (Review)

Title: Chimeres
Director: Oliver Beguin
Writers: Oliver Beguin and Colin Vettier
Cast: Yasna Kohoutova, Yannick Rosset, and Catriona Maccoll 

On vacation in Romania, Alexandre (Yannick Rosset), a photographer, and his pretty girlfriend Livia (Yasna Koehoutova) enjoy the beauty of the city. After getting drunk at a bar, they leave only to have him get hit by a car. At the hospital, he gets transfused with contaminated blood.  He only notices this when he reads an article in the paper (well she reads it to him, as he can't read Romanian). He begins to get paranoid. But, what seemed to be all in his mind at first turns into reality, as he saves himself and her from getting mugged by a gang of thugs. Soon, he must quench his blood thirst, while she, being the loving GF that she is, gives him a hand.

I had the pleasure of catching Chimeres two weeks ago at TromaDance in Brooklyn, NY. It features some excellent acting by the whole cast. Particularly good are our two leads who make the movie work even if at first it seems like the premise might be silly (though it ends it up not being so, thankfully). The transformation of Alexandre is handled very nicely by Rosset. He does a fine job of going from nice to paranoid to killing machine. The gorgeous Koehoustova is also her role. She's so good in her performance that I fully accept her staying with him. And, the film makes you cheer her on as the it progresses all the way to the end. In many ways, her character is a us, as she is the most rateable person in the movie. She also gets naked and shows her wondrous, small boobies on camera. She even takes a literal bloodbath. Score! Euro horror fans will be super pleased that the gorgeous Italian scream queen Catriona (The Beyond) Maccoll has a small but well done role in it as well.

While, this is certainly great, there is one thing that people might have a problem with at first. It's really slow. And, I admit I kinda struggled with it at times. I also wasn't fully sold at first with the vampiric disease. But, the last third of the film I was sold on and was completely into it. From here on it becomes a full throttle action film and kicks major fucking ass! It turns super exciting and ultra-violent.

During the film's climax, the action itself hits a 10 on the meter. You will end up cheering your ass off and really loving it just the way I did. The fight choreography is excellent. And, what I really ove about these scenes, is that you see all the action. It doesn't cut away or has that annoying MTV style editing that American action filmmakers seem to jerk-off to and spray on the camera lens. It all leads to a beautifully done and perfectly handled and ending the proceedings.

The excellent makeup FX is bloody well done. Among the gore included are literal bloodbaths, splattering blood, throat rippings, bludgeonings, bitings, and more. Another highlight is Beguin's directing. This may be his first film, but you know he has a stellar future in the genre ahead of him. The movie is gorgeous looking and proves to be another well-made hit from France. Combine this with the editing and you have one of the best looking vampire films, along with Byzantium, in recent memory.

Chimeres is well worth you giving it your time and patience. Sure you may think it drags at first and you might not even really get into it, but stick with it. Because the payoff is just to fucking badass for you to stop it or, even worse, miss completely. This one ain't on DVD yet, but when it comes out be sure to see it. Causes it really is a stylish loving tribute to European horror by way of a Crazies/ 28 Days Later spin on bloodsuckers, with a good mix of drama and killer action.

*** out of ****

3/04/2010

The 30 Hottest Scream Queens, pt. 3: 10-1

10. Joanna Angel- The undisputed queen of horror/ porn, Joanna has starred in two of her companies wildest and most infamous movie in the form of Re-Penetrator and The Xxxorcist. In both films not only does she get fucked good, but she gets covered in gore and make-up FX. In fact, I will go on record right now and say that she is THE hottest zombie in the history of cinema. But, Joanna also worked in cult horror, not just of the pornographic kind. She was in the interactive horror DVD game Slumber Party Slaughterhouse along with scream queen Tiffany Shepis and some of her own Burning Angel hotties. Her most recent venture into horror is in the underground movie Warning!!! Pedophile Released, in which, as I understand, she plays the sister of a recently released pedophile scumbag. She's just one of the cutest, hottest, and coolest chicks that ever lived!


9. Ingrid Pitt- One of Hammer horror's most popular and beloved beauties this Polish goddess is, quite simply, one of the genre's sexiest and seductive women. Both of her Hammer roles are in great films and well worth seeing. The Vampire Lovers is sexy stuff as she plays a lesbian vampire, in what is perhaps the hottest movie the studio ever made. Countess Dracula sees Pitt playing Countess Elizabeth Bathory. It's a great performance by her, with a very memorable moment in which comes out nude from the tub, covered in blood! Hot! She also stared in the classic The Wicker Man, and other genre flicks. Pitt has even written articles in genre publications, making her even more worthy of all the love fans give this exquisite, sexy, and busty beauty.

8. Cernia Vincent- This ravishing beauty of Italian decent has it all in the looks department: killer body, sexy skin tone, beautiful eyes, long, dark hair, and an awesome chest. Her most popular role is in my fav of Eli Roth's movies: Cabin Fever. Her scene where she shaves her legs, is well, you won't soon forget it. One of the best horror images of the last decade, I think. You also won't forget her nudity in that movie! She's been some lower budget horror, too, with stuff like Sci-Fi channel flick Sasquatch Mountain, It Waits (which has a cool creature and Cerina, and yet is still underwhelming), and Return to House on Haunted Hill (pretty decent and so much better than the horrid remake it sequelizes). I met Cerina at a Chiller, and she was a total delight, as not only is she breathtakingly beautiful but very friendly and down-to-earth, as well.




7. Tiffany Shepis- To me, and to just about any horror fan, Tiffany is one of the sexiest. coolest, and most fucking hot women doing low budget horror, today. I think she is the modern answer to Linnea Quigley. Shepis has been in a shitload of horror and cult movies. She's worked with Troma, including her earliest role in one of their best films, Tromeo and Juliet. Another great Troma movie she was is Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. Among my favorite movies she has done are: The Hasing and, what might be her best film, so far, Nightmare Man. In said, film she does a sexy dance, gets nude, and kicks ass with a fucking crossbow! With Tiffany you can always count on sexiness and, many times, nudity. Yay!

6. Debbie Rochon- A woman as beautiful on the outside as she is on the inside, I been a fan of hers since I first saw and heard of her in the pages of the now defunct genre skin-rag Scream Queens Illustrated. Like many of the girls working in the low budget land, Debbie has been in countless of films. She had the best and sexiest role in Tromeo and Juliet playing a pierced lesbian! Yum! Some other memorable Debbie roles include her kicking ass in micro-budget underground horror/ comedy Mulva: Zombie Ass Kicker!, Tales from the Crapper (a decent little Troma horror/ comedy), Dr. Horror's Erotic House of Idiots (which also stars other horror babes like Ruby LaRocca, Rachel Robbins, and Barbara Joyce), and tons more. And, yeah, not every film she's done is great, but she's always awesome in them, and pleasure to see in any movie. She also happens to be one of the most awesome people at any convention she is at!

5. Caroline Munroe- If I had to pick one woman to have been in Hammer movies as my favorite, then I would go Caroline, who is of the hottest women to have done any genre! She was in the Golden Voyage of Sinbad looking absolutely stunning. Her Hammer work include the decent Dracula A.D. 1972 (her death scene has to be one of the best moments in that one) and the classic Captain Cornos: Vampire Hunter (an amazing film that is so far ahead of it's time). She's known to gorehounds, too, for her work on movies like the disturbing and controversial classic Maniac and The Last Horror Movie (a movie that reunited with her Maniac co-star Joe Spinell). She's pretty much the only reason to see the piece of shit that is Slaughter High and looks smoking hot in Franco's Faceless (yes, the movie I mentioned that Lahie is in), and, lots of other horror and cult flicks. And, while she has never done nudity she will always a be a sight to behold thanks to her amazing beauty.

4. Katie Cassidy- Katie's done a lot of mainstream horror, both on TV and the movies. On TV she got her best role, yet, as the demon Ruby in the third season of the greatest show, ever, Supernatural. She's also on another horror show, Harper's Row (but as I have said before on this blog, I never saw that). She has also been in just about every horror remake: When a Stranger Calls (where she played fellow hottie Camille Belle's friend), Black Xmas (probably my favorite of her movies, and shares movie time with a smoking hot female cast), and the upcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street (man, that one just looks totally underwhelming...). Katie ain't been nude, yet, but I hope she does show some skin someday!


3. Catriona MacColl- This English beauty is most famous to horror fans for breaking hearts in Lucio Fulci classics. She starred in this best film, a huge personal fav, The Beyond. She was also in the awesome movie that he did before that one, City of the Living Dead (aka The Gates of Hell). After those films, this blue-eyed, blonde beauty appeared in the last of her work with Fulci in House by the Cemetery. She been in other genre films, but I sadly can I say I have not seen those. I so need to correct that! But, personally speaking, I think MacColl has one of the prettiest faces to ever appear in a gorefest and is a good actress, too.

2. Barbara Crampton- When I first saw Re-Animator, I was blown away. Not only did it become my all time favorite movie, but it made me want to make movies. And, I developed the hugest crush on it's lead female star, Barbara Crampton. The scene where she is fully nude and fondled and eventually given cunnilingus by a decapitated head just blow my twelve year old mind away. She returned to work with director Stuart Gordon in another Lovecraft film, From Beyond. Again she blew me away, in particular when she was dressed as a dom (pic at the left) and molested by a monster, who fondles her boobs (I guess weird creatures also lust after her!). She continued to do horror movies and soap operas, as well. Which means she might just have the most diverse group of fans of all the lovely ladies on this list!

1. Asia Argento- This woman is horror royalty. Her dad is, afterall, Dario fucking Argento. She's been doing movies for years now, beginning as the young girl in the Argento produced The Church. But, her first major role was in her dad's American made movie, Trauma. I remember having the hugest crush on her after seeing it, and when she got nude in that, wow!!!! Her best acting came, up to that point, came in The Stendhal Syndrome (the best of Argento's weaker post-Opera career). She also tried her own hands at directing and her first film was loosely based on her life, the horrific, tragic, artistic, and beautiful: Scarlet Diva. A few of the scenes in that included real sex. The hottest moment has to be her lesbian love scene with an Italian porn actress. Very, very yummy! Said movie has some great full frontal nudity from her. She's beloved over in Italy but has found success in the US, too. Her best American film is, I think, Land of the Dead for George Romero. She did not get nude in that but, goddamn did she look good!!!!!!


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11/03/2008

Chiller Theatre- Oct. 25, 2008

On October 25, 2008 we went to the always awesome Chiller Theatre. Along with Exxxotica NY this remains THE best con in the world. Not the NY Comic Con and certainly not Fangoria's Weekend of Horrors.

This time it was Alan, Aisha, Matt, Rachel, and, of course, yours truly. Yeah, I know the group always changes, but whatcha gonna do? Anywho, we got there, and met up with our friend, Pat.

After checking in the hotel, we went in to the con. I should mention that weather sucked ass that day, as it was raining, and this was THE most packed Chiller, ever. It also had the most and biggest guests, ever. So much so that they bought back the tent! I ain't seen that since Chiller moved to this hotel! Anyways, our first stop was the tent.

There we saw the beautiful and sexy Tiffany Shepis, who did remember us! Considering we drank that bad vodka with in May; it is hard to forget us! Anways, she was cool, fun, and friendly like always. I bought a copy of Slumber Party Slaughterhouse, which she signed. I wanted to pick this one up, since it has her AND Joanna Angel and, as I would later learn, a bunch of other Burning Angel girls! Score! Goddamn, is Tiff a hottie!

Next up was the ravishing Josie Lee. I been dying to meet her for a while, I missed her last year in Oct., but I would not miss her again! She looks AMAZING in person! And, she was so sweet and personable. She talked to me and told that the outfit she had on that day is the same one she wore in Peach Ultra Vixens: Asians, which I bought from her so she could sign. It was really a pleasure to meet her, and she has won herself a fan for life in me. Josie Lee rulz!

Another person I wanted to meet was Richard Hatch. I love his role as Tom Zareck in the new Battlestar Galatica. So, I had to get him to sign my DVD of the first season. I told how much I loved his role, and he came off as very gracious. Really nice guy.

Another person I had to meet was Catorina MacCall. You see The Beyond is one of my fav films ever. I also had a major crush on her when I saw the film as a college student. I told her she was one of my fav genre actresses and that The Beyond is one of my fav films, ever. She too, was very sweet and gracious. She signed my copy of said film.

Next the Wolfpac (that would be me- G-Pac, Alan- The Lone Wolfe, and Matt- Big Sexy) met Big Sexy Kevin Nash. He signed my nWo DVD , and we got a group pic with him. This after Matt introduced us as the Wolfpac, our gimmick names included! Nash must thought we were total dorks! But he was still cool as hell!

After doing some shopping, we got some food. I then went off to meet Erica Smith, who I had not met before. She was so beautiful! She was sitting with Misty Mundae, who I have met a shitload of times. They signed my newly bought copy of Shock-O-Rama.

As always I bought a shitload of movies and stuff: Flower and Snake, Rika, and The Tokyo Shock triple Feature (Japanese Hell, Cursed, and Samurai Chicks), as well as the Cobra HISS Tank Driver, that I needed.

By the way, I must say it was very cool to hang with Pat, when he is dressed as Dr. Satan. People love to come up to him for pics and shit, including many a hottie!

There were lots of cool costumes at Chiller, but most I saw at the party. But I did stop this one hottie, who is the HOTTEST Princess Leia, I ever seen! Maybe, even hotter than Olivia Munn, maybe... Oh yeah, if you are wondering why have glasses on, well, I was feeling a little sick. But, worry not I felt better soon after!

As always is the case, the Chiller party owned! As I said before the party had some cool costumes. Check out the Batman villains. Freddy tried to kill me! The party was so awesome even Sarah Palin got in on the fun! I think these pics would do wonders for their campaign! Which reminds me I need to see that porno Nailing Palin! My friend Victor went as Charles Manson. Anyways, since I ran into him, I also ran into my friend Ruby LaRocca. but, by that point I was drunk and she was wearing a blonde wig. So, I did not recognize her, until she was like"Gio!". You can imagine how embarrassed I was! But, she is such a sweetie! So, I am sure all was fine!

The party itself had great music, as always by the Dead Elvi. There was a wedding, and Zacherly turned 91! He looked good for his age and was very peppy. God bless him!

Then Kip Winger played. I am NOT a fan of Winger, but had a great time signing along to his five song acoustic set. After him, Gregg Brady sang! That made the American Gladiators come out and rock!

As I said, I was pretty drunk, but that's the way Chiller should be! Everyone was drunk and of course there were hot babes. As always, Sci-Fi Ninja Theatre's Vinny was there to talk to the babes. These girls were hot! Yep, I had an AWESOME time!

Uhm, so where the hell were you?!

The next day, we said bye to Pat, and went to the pancake place, as has been the tradition since last October. As with last Oct, I had some awesome BACON! Bacon is the food of the gods!!!!! It was a nice end to another great Chiller.

Here's to the next one in April!