Henry Rollins Double Feature

While battling my zombie eye and the trials and tribulations of a shitty job that could up and disappear at any moment (they like to blame the good workers for former General manager mistakes), I've been watching a plethora of movies, new and old. Especially horror, considering it's my favorite genre (besides the significant genre of the romantic comedy... and if you really know me, you'd know why I'm joking about that).

Tommy, my partner in crime and future co-writer/ co-director came by on his day off, where we commenced on eating some hearty food and watching some good ol' fashioned gore films. And these two had something in common. The one. The only. The best singer in Black Flag and an all around nice guy. Henry Fucking Rollins. Or as Danyell likes to call him, "Our future uncle to our kids". Tommy had brought over Wrong Turn 2 and I owned Feast since the two pack came out, watching it once and loving every minute of it.

Tommy had not seen the insanity within that film. The weird beasts that wear what appears to be a water buffalo on top of what they really are. Sexually deviant beasts who just like to kill, eat and hump. Kind of like mankind, come to think of it. So we watched that one, because it was the one I picked out first. Again having a great time, especially the brilliant performance of one Mr. Rollins, acting outside the box and playing someone he would hate in real life, a self help guru. He gets stripped down to his skivvies and everyone thinks he's going to save the day at one point, until they see his head getting rammed into the wall and ripped apart. Good times had by all. And it has the greatest fake out in many years for a horror film. All I'll say to the people who haven't yet seen it; big time hero comes to save the day. That's all I'll say.

Next up was the sequel to the classic Eliza Dushku vehicle Wrong Turn, which I have yet to see considering when it came out, all I kept hearing was that it was a Hills Have Eyes clone. And I'm a big fan of both the original Craven classic and the redux by Aja. So going into this sequel, we knew we didn't need to know the ins and outs of a hillbilly cannibal extravaganza. We knew it would have plenty of kills, but didn't know how the film would turn out. And all I can say is that it made me want to see the original, hoping that film was as fun and off the wall as this one.

Henry Rollins plays the host to this new reality game show The Apocalypse, a Survivor type show but with the element that it's supposed to be the end of the world and how would you survive. It's the beginnings of the show, and you get to meet all the young and beautiful people who will be on. The first kill is a classic and occurs less than 5 minutes in the film. Patton Oswalt has a brief voice role as the agent of the first girl you meet and say goodbye to in fast timing. A fun kill that really splits people down the middle, if you know what I mean.

But I won't go into details with the film, just saying it's all worth it to see Rollins go into Rambo mode and dispensing of the cannibals in grand fashion. He plays a pure badass, nothing fake about the character he's playing. And it was good to see one of the better Jason Voorhees, Ken Kirzinger, playing the head hillbilly, Pa, with his great hair lip and all. Just a fun film with plenty of inventive kills, some decent acting, plenty of surprises and taking a film that could of been wasted fodder and giving a good name to a franchise. Plus there's disgusting birth scene ala' the prequel to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which goes beyond what gore that had within that film. Plus there's incest... what film has all of that and a random scene of incest after a good hacking?

Fun fun fun!

I'm going to sit back and watch a film that I surprisingly had never watched before, Phantom of the Paradise. Edgar Wright calls it a film that surpasses Rocky Horror Picture Show. We shall see if he is correct.