Machete Maidens Unleashed! (Review)

Machete Maidens Unleashed!Machete Maidens Unleashed (2010)Directed by Mark Hartley[part of the NYAFF 2011] I've been looking forward to checking out Mark Hartley's latest documentary Machete Maidens Unleashed for a while now. After checking out the trailer, I was salivating to see the history of Filipino exploitation films as I was too young to know what these films were and how they were made. Thanks to the New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF2011)...

Categories: 70s grindhouse movies, aswang, blaxploitation, documentary, exploitation, exploitation film, filipino horror, machete maidens unleashed, nyaff 2011, philippines, the search for weng weng trailer

3 Slices of Life (Review)

3 Slices of LifeSlices of Life (2011)Directed by Anthony G. SumnerAs noted a few weeks back, I questioned whether or not the horror anthology was seeing a resurgence. One of those films that showed evidence of this was Anthony Sumner's 3 Slices of Life which from the cover art and the trailer made it seem like the "IT" film to see in the indie horror circuit. Would it replace Trick R Treat as the reigning horror anthology in the last 5 years?Now...

Categories: 2010 horror dvd, 2011 horror movies, anthology, gore, horror anthology, indie film, indie horror, slices of life, splatter

Watch the awesome movie The Taint for FREE!!!

Director Drew Bolduc dropped me a line to let you all know that you can now watch his and Dan Nelson's flick The Taint for FREE....yes for freakin free...until the end of June.I reviewed the film earlier this year and I gave it 3 out of 4 spinkicks. You can read my entire review here.Here's a quote from my review."The Taint is the next evolution of the Troma movie. I think Troma has lost touch with it's extreeminess but directors Drew Bolduc and...

Categories: 2011 horror movies, exploitation, exploitation film, grindhouse, indie film, indie horror, the taint, troma films

NYAFF 2011: Top Movies to Check Out

Summer is upon us and I know you want to head outdoors and enjoy the sun and the grass but starting next month you may want to head indoors to see some awesome Asian flicks courtesy of the New York Asian Film Festival.They've just released their schedule and it's packed full of choice flicks from love stories to horror flicks to plain old crazy WTF films. Check out the full schedule. Also head over to the official site for more info.I've perused...

Categories: 7th Annual New York Asian Film Festival, battle royale, china, festival, filipino horror, japanese, korean horror, muay thai, NYC screenings, nyc movie, takashi miike, versus, yakuza

Congrats! You're a Horror Blogger....now what?

As a horror blogger, I've realized that being a blogger is quite different from being a horror journalist. (obviously) I'm pretty sure the guys at Bloody Disgusting, Dread Central and Fangoria get the best perks in the horror world. I'm not shorting the horror blogosphere. We also get some decent perks for being the soldiers in the intertubes horror community.What I can say is I do enjoy the few perks I do get as a now established horror blog site....

Categories: horror blog, horror blogging, jadedviewer, jadedviewer.com, movie blogs, the jaded viewer

The Frankenstein Syndrome (Review)

The Frankenstein Syndrome The Frankenstein Syndrome (2010)Directed by Sean Tretta[screener provided by MTI Home Video]There are preconceived notions when your film stars Tiffany Shepis. You expect lots of screaming and blood from our beautiful scream queen beauty. However surprisingly, The Frankenstein Syndrome tones down all those things.Don't get me wrong. Tiffany looks hot in hospital scrubs, she screams and she gets blood on her but this film...

Categories: 2011 horror movies, indepentent horror, indie film, indie horror, mti video, tiffany shepis, zombies

The Anniversary at Shallow Creek (Review)

The Anniversary at Shallow CreekThe Anniversary at Shallow Creek (2010)Directed by Jon D. Wagner[screener provided by Breaking Glass Pictures]"I did not go on vacation to die"-One of the characters who dies in The Anniversary at Shallow CreekSigh.If the Dharma Initiative dropped horror movies on the Island, this one would be labeled "GENERIC HORROR MOVIE". It's pretty clear from the beginning to the end of The Anniversary at Shallow Creek that we're...

Categories: 2011 horror movies, breaking glass pictures, indepentent horror, indie horror, serial killer movie, slasher films, true story horror

Cropsey (Review)

I'm not going with a long review on Cropsey. I just want to share a few thoughts after watching the film. This documentary by Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman is a fascinating look into a NYC urban legend I never knew about. Staten Island is usually the lost borough and I've only visited a few times. But to watch the reality of this so called urban legend was clearly fascinating.Here be the plot:Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually...

Categories: documentary, faux documentary, independent cinema, indepentent horror, indie film, indie horror, new york city, serial killer movie

The Shortround: Grinning Faces (Review)

Well we haven't had The Shortround in a while. But thanks to Noah Tilsen, director of the short Grinning Faces we've solved that problem. It's not often I get a short soaked in blood, sex and is a total mind fuck. But Grinning Faces is a jolt of all that in a packed 30 minutes.So what's this about?Enter Hero’s world. Is he living his life, or is someone writing it for him? Dreams and reality bleed into debauched sex, Sadomasochism, violence and murder.Once...

Categories: horror short, indepentent horror, indie horror, sexual killings, short, short film, the shortround