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Curse of the Cannibal Confederates, a review by Jimmy

Title : Curse of the Cannibal Confederates (1982)

Overview
The south shall rise again...and again! Four score and many years ago...during America's Civil War, a brave battalion of Southern Confederate soldiers was captured and tortured to death by the Northern Army! Before they died, they cried REVENGE! Now, the blood-soaked battlefields have become an accursed cemetary where vows of revenge reverberate!

A pastoral picnic at a historical site now becomes a flesh-feast for the living dead! You've heard of "Southern Hospitality" & "Southern Fried Chicken"...but you have never seen anything like this Colonel's secret recipe! THE CURSE OF THE CANNIBAL CONFEDERATES! A holocaust of revenge-hungry rebels! A finger-licking good fright film!

My Impression
Much better than what I was expected after the other reviews read before, not that this film is good or professesional by any means... far from it. The acting is atrocious to be polite, the dialogue are read without emotions and a lot of lines are missed and not retaken. The zombies are not look alike at all : some wear mask, some have a grey painted face, some have a white painted face, ... The effects are poor, at one place they eat the guts of a dead guy but his shirt is just cover with fake blood it's not even rip a little. The story when we think about it doesn't really make sense (why a bunch of dead soldiers care about a book and how did they know that one guy had taken it?). Anyway the most terryfing thing in this film is the place and time shifting dimension : sometimes two actors talk together and one is in autumn and the other in summer or one talk near a road (by the sound) and the other in the forest or one is in the day and the other in the night... This is the scary stuff not the zombies.

Pete I've only one screen capture that are something else than a forest, maybe you'll recognize this building?


And one question : Is it common in your states to bring fireworks when you go hunting 
 
Rating :

Number of film watch : 18

(From My October Horror Marathon on October 9th, 2008)

The Interpreter, a review by Rich

The Interpreter





Enjoyable pacy Hitchcock-style thriller, intelligently scripted and directed with aplomb by Sydney Pollack.
Penn and Kidman worked well together with an enthusiasm for their parts, creating suspense in spades and developing the plot through to an obvious, but not disappointing, conclusion. The only criticism would be her attempted South African accent, which regularly lapsed between Australian and American.
Was the Motobo president meant to be Mugabe?? Unjust ruler, violence, racism, ethnic cleansing etc.
Political thriller well worth watching.
 

**Catherine Keener mini-marathon


(From Riches Random Reviews on August 31st, 2009)

[Rerun Marathon] Police Squad!, a review by Tom

6/10

Definitely better than the previous one.
I do not know, if I should find the Japanese garden funny or offensive 

"Ed and I drove around for hours for no particular reason. We came up empty."

(From [Rerun Marathon] Police Squad! on October 28th, 2007)