Plead the Fifth

     This week part fives. Four films from five franchises than there are Ninja Turtles!

     The Father of Zombies take on found footage. A group of college kids and their fuckwitted professor get swept up in the zombie apocalypse and one decides to never stop filming. Even when it's beyond the point of absolute necessity for the survival of his companions. They stumble onto several ridiculously helpful, and one not so helpful, groups of obvious sequel set up. The penultimate entry in a true master's genre defining series. George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead.
     A power mad former F-1 driver, a washed out mechanic, a reporter, a Nazi engineer, and the world's sweetest sapient WV Beetle all cross paths on a race through a lonely stretch. Will the engineer make an evil Bug? Will the mechanic and the reporter ever realize the depth of their feelings? Why does only one person doubt the emotional intelligence of vehicles? Some of that might be answered in The Love Bug.
     Do not allow Paul Kersey into your life. It will get you killed. For the final time, everyone's favorite squinting mass murderer is back and this time... it's personal! Okay, it's always personal. This time there's a precocious kid and high fashion!  Death Wish V: The Face of Death!
A corrupt detective finds the Lament Configuration at the scene of a shockingly vicious occult themed murder. Soon he is pulled into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Will he be able to resist temptation and see his path out of the darkness or will he be consumed by his own inner demons? Hellraiser: Inferno.
     All that and Kevin escaped, Craig tries to sneak out, Tyler is counting the days, and Dave corrupts all. Join us, won't you?

Episode 276- Plead the Fifth

Vanity Hell Detective

     This week three films about people trying to stop evil.

     October 1986, the bodies of two women are found raped and murdered outside a small town. The local detectives are out of their depth, evidence is improperly collected, crime scenes are destroyed, their methods are ethically questionable, and forensics is almost nonexistent.  Loosely based on the true story of Korea's first serial killer, Memories of Murder.

     If you contact the Hell Correspondence website at exactly the right time and enter the name of someone you have a grudge against, they will be dragged to Hell. Miho and Hakura are massive fans of pop metal singer Maki. When Maki's protégé is dragged to hell, he soon sets his sights on Hakura. A cult, music, plans for global destruction, betrayals, blood attacks... and Hell Girl waits for names.

     Big time Hollywood actor-director-producer-writer-icon, Bruce Campbell, is taken to a small town of Gold Lick, Oregon. There he will make a lot of references, lots of homophobic jokes, force Ted Raimi to be his personal Rob Schneider, just so much racism, and ultimately face off against an ancient Chinese god. Do you like Bruce Campbell? Because if you like Bruce Campbell even a tiny tiny fraction as much as Bruce Campbell likes Bruce Campbell and the money he can milk from Bruce Campbell cult followers then Bruce Campbell has a very special message.... My Name is Bruce (Campbell).
     All that and Kevin has a Raymond Chandler evening, Tyler prepares himself for the FULL Diesel, and Dave does the time warp (again). Join us, won't we? 

Episode 231- Vanity Hell Detective

Second Time Around

     We kick off October with a four pack of sequels.
    After surviving a night of demon attacking in the possessed bodies of his friends at a lonely cabin in the woods, Ash Williams emerges, triumphant, out into the light of day. Tragically, for him anyway, that's just the first 7 minutes of the first sequel in a franchise that will still be going, in various media, for the next 40 year. Can Ash hold off Evil Dead 2 or will he be dead by dawn?

    What happens when you like puns, have Google to quick search references, and think your cat is WAY cuter than she actually is? You make a film series about her misadventures. Duh. Behold a thing that only Kevin and the most cat obsessed corners of the meowiverse could love. Is there no end from the torment brought by A Meowy Halloween?

    Courtney Bates, preteen survivor without a Southern accent, was so traumatized by the events of the first film that she stopped growing vertically, affected an accent, and started the fourth worst band in film. Which seems like a fair enough way to deal with trauma until the band goes for a weekend getaway and Courtney's demons are made flesh. Behold the wonder of The Driller Killer in Slumber Party Massacre II.

    One of the darlings of the 2000s torture porn era, possibly Eli Roth's magnum opus, and nearly a solid indictment of toxic masculinity. When three friends studying art in Italy decide to hop a train to go clubbing in Prague, they find themselves off the beaten path, and in a very deadly manifestation of class warfare. Beautifully filmed and strongly cast, with at least one stand out scene that has forever burned itself in the minds of genre fans, try not to take a nap during Hostel: Part II.

    All that and Craig ponders how long until he and his dogs start merging into a single being, Kevin and Dave face off over a new streaming offering, and Tyler gleefully does his thing with an innocence that you just can't stay mad at... Join us, won't you?

Episode 173- Second Time Around