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Planet Blood, a review by Jimmy

Title : Planet Blood (2008)

Overview
After a comet struck the Earth, destroying most of the populace, a man Justin lives alone in his house, haunted by fear and guilt. As he fights with his inner demons, he also must deal with swarns of flesh-eating vampires who appeared from the bowels of the Earth after the apocalypse.

My Impression
This one is short (50 minutes without the end credit), but this is certainly the first one that I've really appreciated in those 50 movies set. Of course it isn't perfect and have come weakness like the use of CGI to represent the blood when a vampire is killed or a couple of jump cut because of the editing. But the good acting of Brett Kelly, the fast moving of the film (not that the action is fast, more that the story is fast), the general melancholic tone of the film and the ending make up for the weakness.

Nice short (too short) Canadian movie who owe probably a lot to "The Last Man on Earth" for its inspiration (I've never seen the original or the 2 remakes).

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According to imdb this film doesn't exist, so maybe I review only one of my dream

(From Jimmy's 2009 Horror Marathon on October 2nd, 2009)

Horrors of Spider Island, a review by Jimmy

Title : Horrors of Spider Island (1960)

Overview
Eight sexy showgirls (including Euro bombshell Barbera Valentin) and their macho manager, Gary (Alex D'Arcy), survive a plane crash by taking refuge on a remote tropical island. As the gals adjust to the heat and humidity by removing most of their clothes, they also meet one of their new neigbours: a dead scientist found hanging in a giant web. Ignoring the obvious, testosterone-fueled Gary blithley takes a midnight stroll until he's bitten by an overgrown, crab-like spider and immediately transforms into a clawed, fanged, hairy-faced bogeyman who does exactly what monsters in horror films are supposed to do: chase women.

My Impression
This one is only good for its historical value as an early european sexploitation movie. It was made in 1960 so it is really low on the nudie content, in fact there is only one skinny diping scene and to be honest we don't really see anything. But there are a lot of beautifull German girls in short dress and bikini, Barbara Valentin is particullary beautifull and this is not really surprising that she had a 41 years career. The film itself is silly as an horror film (the monster is not there often and his not really important), but since the title of the print used for the DVD is It's Hot in Paradise I don't see it as an horror picture at all. Last thing, the english dubbing is really bad.

At least the german title "Ein Toter hing im Netz" make sense since they found a dead man (the professor) stuck in a spider web on the island when they arrive there.

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(From My Alphabet Marathon Review on November 10th, 2008)

Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon, a review by Tom

21. Graduation Day, Part 1 (1999-05-18)
Writer: Joss Whedon (Created By), Joss Whedon (Writer)
Director: Joss Whedon
Cast: Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy Summers), Nicholas Brendon (Xander Harris), Alyson Hannigan (Willow Rosenberg), Charisma Carpenter (Cordelia Chase), David Boreanaz (Angel), Seth Green (Oz), Anthony Stewart Head (Giles), Kristine Sutherland (Joyce Summers), Harry Groener (Mayor Richard Wilkins), Alexis Denisof (Wesley Wyndam-Pryce), Mercedes McNab (Harmony Kendall), Ethan Erickson (Percy), Emma Caulfield (Anya/Anyanka), Eliza Dushku (Faith), Armin Shimerman (Principal Snyder), James Lurie (Mr. Miller), Hal Robinson (Lester), Adrian Neil (Vamp Lackey #1), John Rosenfeld (Vamp Lackey #2)

I always liked the fight between Buffy and Faith at the end of this episode. I also like the romance building between Anya and Xander, which began in the previous episode and will be explored further in the upcoming seasons. And Willow's distaste for Anya is always fun, which has begun in Doppelgangland when she proposed (under the guise of Vampire Willow) to start killing by beginning with her (Anya).
Nice touch with the hangman playing. Interesting to see, that also in the US it seems to be common to play games in class at the end of a school year.

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(From Tom's Buffy and Angel Marathon on March 6th, 2009)