
Greetings, all. Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column. Before we get to the reviews, here are a few little bits of horror for you to chew on…
As a fan of the F13 series, I can’t wait to hear what these guys have to say. So if you’re interested in more horror, check out John Evans, Vic Weet, and Mike Kuciak as they talk about Voorhees and beyond on IT’S ALWAYS FRIDAY THE 13TH!

You can find out more about HORSEHEAD on its website here and on Facebook here. You can also read my review of the film here, but I can tell you, it’s a very cool flick about nightmares and dreams that should not be missed!
I’ll be reviewing BOUND TO VENGEANCE next week on AICN HORROR, but until then, check out this exclusive clip from the film. It’s described as:
A gritty thriller about a young woman, Eve (Tina Ivlev), who fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.
The film is coming from IFC Midnight and opening in theaters and On Demand/Digital today!
And here’s the trailer!
On with the horror reviews!
(Click title to go directly to the feature)
Retro-review: FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)
Retro-review: THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977)
Retro-review: PUPPETMASTER (1989)
Retro-review: DOG SOLDIERS (2002)
RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK (2014)
THE ENCOUNTER (2015)
#1 SERIAL KILLER (2013)
GHOUL (2015)
THE MIDNIGHT SWIM (2014)
MEET ME THERE (2014)
CREEP (2014)
Advance Review: CAESAR & OTTO’S PARANORMAL HALLOWEEN (2015)
And finally…KABUKIMAN’S COCKTAIL CORNER!


FOOD OF THE GODS (1976)
Directed by Bert I. GordonWritten by H.G. Wells (portion of novel), Bert I. Gordon(screenplay)
Starring Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, Ida Lupino, John McLiam, Belinda Balaski, Tom Stovall, Chuck Courtney, Reg Tunnicliffe
Retro-reviewed by Ambush Bug

Based on snippets from HG Wells’ novel of the same name, FOOD OF THE GODS follows football star Morgan (Marjoe Gortner) and his agent Brian (Jon Cypher) on a hunting trip on a remote island in Canada. When one of their party is killed by a giant wasp, Morgan and Brian return to the scene of the crime to investigate the death to find an old lady (Ida Lupino) protecting a goopy fountain spurting what looks like pancake batter from the earth. Turns out any animal who partakes in the goop grows to mammoth proportions, and salesman Bensington (Ralph Meeker) thinks he’s discovered a goldmine hoping he can cash in on the goop to stop world hunger and line his pockets with money. But first, they have to get off the island as many of the forest’s animals and some of the old lady’s chickens have devoured the food and now have giant appetites to match their giant bodies. Morgan and a group of survivors are trapped on the small island, battling gargantuan chickens, massive maggots, titanic wasps, and scores and scores of super-sized rats for most of the second half of the film.


Coupled with FROGS (which I reviewed a while back here), you’re not going to find another pairing of nature gets revenge films. While thematically this one doesn’t have as strong an environmentalist tone as FROGS or EMPIRE OF THE ANTS, the multiple scenes of rats attacking a house are really well done. There’s a bit of a message at the end as the food of the gods makes its way off the island and into the hands of some schoolchildren, but for the most part this film is about the spectacle of giant animals on the attack and does so in a creative and effective, albeit cruel, manner.


THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (1977)
Directed by Don TaylorWritten by H.G. Wells (novel), Al Ramrus, John Herman Shaner, & Richard Alan Simmons (screenplay)
Starring Burt Lancaster, Michael York, Nigel Davenport, Barbara Carrera, Richard Basehart, Nick Cravat, The Great John L., Bob Ozman, Fumio Demura, Gary Baxley, John Gillespie, David S. Cass Sr.
Retro-reviewed by Ambush Bug
While there are some uneven and disappointing moments in the 1977 version of THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU, I have fond memories of watching this film on TV as a kid, so the film will forever have a special place in my heart despite its flaws.


Storywise, while the 1977 version does hit all the right beats from HG Wells’ tale, the attention to Braddock’s blossoming romance with Maria seems to overshadow the real conflict between Braddock’s morals and Moreau’s inquisitive nature. This is the real fascinating debate at play and here, while there are a few back and forthings between the two extreme opposites in mentality, it feels rather rushed and unrealized. What’s even more lackluster is the way Moreau is overtaken by his creations. Again, this becomes less of a mad science tale where the experiments turn on the creator and more about Braddock’s escape from the island. In my opinion, the monsters rebelling against their god and creator is much more interesting than a simple race through the woods. And while the film tries to encapsulate all of these themes, it really feels like Moreau’s conflict is more of an afterthought than a real focus.

I feel the perfect Moreau tale has yet to be told, and here’s hoping that someone (maybe Richard Stanley himself will return to give us his vision) comes along to give me the Moreau tale I’m yearning for. While this one nails all of the man-beast scenes and has a good hero in York, I feel the focus on the romance and escape far overshadowed the real interesting stuff in the 1977 film. Still, for some terrifying effects, some cool mad science and an awesome scene where a man-beast fights a tiger (!!!), THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU ’77 delivers the goods. While light on extras, the film does sport a scene of the final unused reveal that Maria is actually one of the animals herself, something that is sort of glossed over in the film. I guess in the time it was made, the fact that York had just bumped scruglies with an ocelot might have been too much for audiences to take.


PUPPETMASTER (1989)
Directed by David SchmoellerWritten by Charles Band, Kenneth J. Hall, & J.S. Cardone, (story), David Schmoeller (screenplay)
Starring Paul Le Mat, William Hickey, Irene Miracle, Jimmie F. Skaggs, Robin Frates, Matt Roe, Kathryn O'Reilly, Mews Small, Barbara Crampton, David Boyd, plus the puppets; Pinhead, Tunneller, Leech Woman, Jester, & Blade!
Retro-reviewed by Ambush Bug
As a kid, I enjoyed the PUPPETMASTER movies. I didn’t really remember much about the plots or any underlying themes or anything like that. All I remembered were the creative designs of the puppets and how amazing the first film was seeing them all do away with folk in their distinct, bizarre ways. Spawning nine sequels and prequels, Charles Band and his Full Moon Studios certainly got their money’s worth from the little shits’ mayhem, so sitting down with the one that started it all was interesting to me as I went in wondering what it was that made this film so worthy of nine follow up films. And though the film is filled with its fair share of cheesy moments, I have to admit it was a lot of fun to revisit the original PUPPETMASTER.

While the history of the power of Toulon is kind of vague, what impressed me the most is the mythology director David Schmoeller, producer/co-writer Charles Band, and writers Kenneth J. Hall & J.S. Cardone have mapped out. Puppets and characters that don’t really have much relevance in the first film appear later in the film series, suggesting that from the first installment there was a sort of plan in place here. That type of commitment to the mythology is impressive, and something I never really put together the first time I saw this. So while the final project wasn’t the most tightly written, best acted, or deftly directed film, I can appreciate that this was a first film in an intended story—one that, after seeing some of the sequels, is actually rather complex to follow.


But this is a film which seems to exist, at least at first, to highlight some very cool murders and puppetry effects. Whether the film intended to have a vast mythology as its legacy or the subsequent writers were just good at riffing off of what had come before is debatable, but the first in this series is damn good. I’m hoping to check out further PUPPETMASTER films soon to re-experience the whole series all over again. But while this film is heavy on the cheese in places, the gory and creative puppet antics make PUPPETMASTER worthy of spawning a franchise.

DOG SOLDIERS (2002)
Directed by Neil MarshallWritten by Neil Marshall
Starring Sean Pertwee, Kevin McKidd, Emma Cleasby, Liam Cunningham, Thomas Lockyer, Darren Morfitt, Chris Robson, Leslie Simpson, & Bryn Walters, Ben Wright, & Brian Claxton Payne as the Werewolves!
Retro-reviewed by Ambush Bug
I know there are a lot of you out there that love DOG SOLDIERS, and for good reason. It’s got a fantastic cast, a fast pace, some decent werewolf effects, and is filled with badassery. If you’re looking for a more personal tale of man coping with his inner beast, you’re most likely going to come away from this film wanting. But if you’re looking for a horror actioner that basically swipes from many different action films and mashes it all together, then DOG SOLDIERS is the one for you.

Still, there’s a “give ‘em hell” tough guy way of life aura about this film that cannot be denied, not so much in one specific character (although Sean Pertwee is about as bad ass as it comes fighting off werewolves with his guts spilled out of his body for most of the film), but for the overall sense of grit everyone has. There’s not a lot of time for disbelief in things like werewolves. For this film, it’s all about surviving the mission and the target is the werewolves. After the soldiers discover the enemy is giant, hairy, and wolfen, the only goal is to get through the night alive. I love this film for this direct approach to storytelling, setting up one situation after another where the soldiers concoct a plan to get out of the house they’ve holed up in or take as many werewolves as they can to hell with them if they don’t make it. This is very much a classic WWII movie sensibility and it’s prevalent from beginning to end here.

Nevertheless, there’s a lot to like about this film. The werewolves, for one, are pretty distinct looking, and while the stilt-wearing costume has been done before in the HOWLING series, these wolves look quite distinct with 80s rockstar haircuts and snarling muzzles. Going practical is the way to go with werewolves in my opinion, and this one goes all the way impressively and uniquely.

This Shout Factory re-release is full of extras interviewing the directors and producers about the long road from the initial idea scrawled on a bar napkin to the film itself. Another feature talks with the effects men in charge of coming up with the werewolves’ distinct look, and another is more of a retrospective looking back on the film that is now 13 years old. Any fan of the film (and despite this critical review, I count myself as one of them) is going to be pleased with this packaging and production. While the film stock remains pretty grainy, it only adds to the gruff and grit this film exudes from every pore. DOG SOLDIERS is definitely distinct among its pack in the werewolf subgenre.
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RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK (2014)
Directed by Scott PatrickWritten by Brett Kelly, David A. Lloyd, Trevor Payer
Starring Candice Lidstone, Jessica Huether, Catherine Mary, Dan Desmarais, Lawrence Evenchick, Richard Groen, Mel Guibz, Kitty Kamieniecki, Pavel Lubanski, Caren Macnevin, Scott McClelland, John Migliore, Duncan Milloy, Kelley Oliver, Angela Parent
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug
So I actively sought out RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK in hopes that it would be a fun low budgeter. I’m a fan of shark movies, even the bad ones, as the thoughts of a giant fish eating me from the feet up has always been a fear of mine. Even when wading in a pool, I occasionally am overcome with the fear that a toothy predator somehow got in and is ready to chomp down on me like Quint in JAWS. So bad or good, I try to see every killer shark movie out there.

The film focuses on a megalodon, a prehistoric giant shark not unlike the Steve Alten book MEG which is being developed by Eli Roth, which is terrorizing the waters of a small coastal town. A teacher at a college had a run in with the shark ages ago, and now a bunch of kids decide to go to a facility where the shark has been unearthed anew and with a massive appetite. What transpires is uninspired, boring, and just plain frustrating to watch.
Worse than the usual fare we sit through on SyFy Channel, RAIDERS OF THE LOST SHARK is clever in name alone. Flying sharks, giant sharks, bad acting, and bad CG are all that waits for those brave enough for this film. This isn’t even in the category of so-bad-it’s-good, which was hugely disappointing for me.

THE ENCOUNTER (2015)
aka FOREST FIREDirected by Robert Conway
Written by Robert Conway
Starring Clint James, Owen Conway, Megan Drust, Eliza Kiss, Paulina Vallin, Louie Iaccarino, Dan Higgins, Monica Engesser, Pat Kaye, Chad T. Krolczyk
Reviewed by Ambush Bug
I’m a sucker for UFO stories, especially the ones that center around the conspiracy angle. And while I’ve grown weary of found footage, add spaceships and grey aliens to a shaky hand held cam, and I still get wrapped up in it. Thankfully, THE ENCOUNTER has plenty of all of that.

For all its faults, you can’t call THE ENCOUNTER boring as it moves at a frantic pace, bipping and bopping from one separate storyline to another and as they play “The Blind Men and the Elephant” we are made privy to a pretty complex plot of alien infestation as small pellets seem to infect humans, changing them on a cellular level into tall white creatures with no mouths intent on infecting and tearing apart as many humans as possible. The pace of this film is pretty fun, never giving the viewer a chance to lose interest long enough and cutting back and forth to each of these parties at crucial, cliffhangy moments.

What is impressive is the amount of effects the filmmakers were able to fit into the film. Obviously the film is on a tight budget, but it seems all of the production costs went to the right places as the effects really are convincing and fun. Couple that with some well timed moments of tension as the campers discover the alien invaders and you’ve got a fun little aliens amok movie. A lot of the effects and details have been used before in either UFO films or docudramas you often see on the Discovery Channel, but still, it’s laced together to make a fun and breezy, albeit otherworldly and weird romp in THE ENCOUNTER—as long as the found footage angle doesn’t scare you away.

#1 SERIAL KILLER (2013)
aka CHINKDirected by Stanley Yung
Written by Koji Steven Sakai
Starring Jason Tobin, Eugenia Yuan, Tzi Ma, Shoshana Bush, Kenzie Dalton, Rane Jameson, Gemma Massot, Christie Gaynor, Robert Cicchini, Cindera Che, Jesse Wang, Tiley Chao, Matthias Chrans, Romina Bovolini, Ellen Ho, Kasie Callaway, Michael Alton, Kylee Cochran, Eric St. John
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug
Formerly known as CHINK (a title smartly changed in my opinion, as it probably will be seen by more people without the racial slur), #1 SERIAL KILLER really does deserve an audience as it dives deep and immerses the viewer into the fascinating and often uncomfortable midst of a mind unwell.

While in many ways, this is your typical DEXTER/AMERICAN PSYCHO style serial killer film where the viewer is privy to all of the inner dialog going on in the head of the central figure (a serial killer). We witness the first kill, the disposing of the body, and the mastering of the craft. What makes this different is that this is viewed through the lens of a self-hating Chinese man who doesn’t want to feel comfortable with his own culture, yet doesn’t have the social graces to find a niche in any other culture either. It’s fascinating to watch Eddie tell racist jokes about Asians, avoid any association with his own culture, and even going as far as to avoid his own parents. When Eddie meets Karena, for the first time, he makes a connection with someone of his own culture and begins to embrace it, but by this point, the killing has begun and he can’t stop his killing urges. What plays out is a fascinating crisis inner crisis focusing on a man trying to sort out life and who he is. And for that, the film is rather fascinating to see unfold.

#1 SERIAL KILLER is not a scare a minute film. It’s a deeply disturbed psychological drama focusing on the disintegration of the makeup of a normal human being into an inhuman monster capable of taking human life. Mapped out rather ingeniously and formidably acted across the board, if you’re interested in culture conflict and descent into madness tales, #1 SERIAL KILLER should be at the top of your list of to-see movies.

GHOUL (2015)
Directed by Petr JáklWritten by Petr Bok & Petr Jákl (screenplay & story)
Starring Jennifer Armour, Paul S. Tracey, Jeremy Isabella, Debra Garza, Alina Golovlyova
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug
While found footage films might make your eyes roll so fast they pop out of your skull, I urge you to chase those orbs down and pop them back in because just because there’s a lot of found footagers out there doesn’t mean some of them can’t still be good. Take GHOUL for instance.

While much of this film is setup for the freaky events that occur in the last forty minutes, what sets GHOUL apart from the rest of the found footagers is that the setup itself is quite fascinating. While the characters are pretty cut and paste, I found myself enrapt in the mystery and uncanny nature of the history of the famine as well as the grueling details that occurred during it. Add some weird mysticism and some even weirder occurrences caught on tape and this film doesn’t suffer from the lull most found footagers have for most of its runtime.

The final moments of this film are utterly terrifying as the crew find themselves in a series of tunnels under the rundown house they’ve been trapped in. After experiencing odd behavior the crew don’t remember doing and seeing all sorts of weird shit, I still wasn’t prepared for the intensity of the final moments of this film and found myself glued to the screen as the camera panned around frantically. GHOUL may be a found footager, but don’t hold that against it as it is a really cool mystery as well as a pretty chilling treat that just happens to use the found footage format to tell a compelling tale. And even though some of the characters are rather cookie-cutter, GHOUL had me wrapped around it’s ghoulish little finger from start to finish.

THE MIDNIGHT SWIM (2014)
Directed by Sarah Adina SmithWritten by Sarah Adina Smith
Starring Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Lafleur, Aleksa Palladino, Ross Partridge
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug
Not all horror films have to have copious amounts of blood and gore. THE MIDNIGHT SWIM is practically bloodless and focuses mainly on the relationships between three sisters as they reconnect to honor their recently deceased mother (DONNIE DARKO’s Sparkle Motion Mom Beth Grant). While this might be the making for a soppy melodrama, instead it turns into an effective little ghost story.

What impressed me the most is that while this film isn’t your typical film one sees reviewed here in AICN HORROR, I was wrapped up in the story from beginning to end; mostly because of the nuanced and complex performances by the actresses playing the three sisters. Even without the bizarre elements which I’ll get into in a bit, this is a ghost story where someone who had just past haunts the living through their memories and shared experiences. The mother is ever present here; either through video tapes, photographs, through stories or reenactments the girls take part in. And while things do get good and scary by the end, the real thrill comes from the push and pull relationships these three sisters have with one another.

But all of this is secondary to me as this is one of the more intimate and more effective found footage films I’ve ever seen in the subtle and nuanced way it works in the mystical elements into a story of these three sisters. While I should hate this film as it does involve a lot of girl talk over lattes and the usual “We girls are doin’ it for ourselves” air about it (there’s even a lip synched song number that isn’t annoying), I couldn’t find the rancor for it because of the overwhelming sense of dread hovering over each frame of this film and the gargantuan talents of Burge, Lafleur, and Palladino as the three sisters. THE MIDNIGHT SWIM is not going to be for hardcore horror fans, but for me, this after hours dip felt refreshing as it caused unease and terror effectively in a real world relationship sense as well as an otherworldly one.

MEET ME THERE (2014)
Directed by Lex LybrandWritten by Brandon Stroud, Destiny D Talley (story)
Starring Lisa Friedrich, Micheal Foulk, Dustin “Golddust” Runnels, John Gholson, Jack Jameson, Jill Thompson
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug

Directed patiently by Lex Lybrand, the tone of MEET ME THERE is set in the subtly threatening opening which is so much more effective than the “first kill” scenes that often describe what kind of threat the audience is in store for in the opening moments. What starts out like a PLANES, TRAINS, & AUTOMOBILES moment ends with a complete shock that comes out of the blue, which left me full of questions and intrigued enough to wait around for them to be answered in the following film. The threat is not completely described, but the slow build up to the explosive scene achieves a level of tension few horror films reach. This same level of patience and ability to slowly ratchet up the tension is exemplified throughout the film, reaching a crescendo that hits all of the right notes while leaving things just ambiguous enough to cause both scares and unease.

What makes this film so effective is the patience Lybrand has with Brandon Stroud and Destiny D Talley’s story. The small religious town of Ada’s birth is not a welcome one, as Calvin and Ada realize the first few seconds they enter it when Calvin is run out of a convenience store at gunpoint for looking “unholy.” After finding a strange druidic coin and seeing all sorts of weird characters lurking around the town and watching them, Calvin and Ada seek solace first at their aunt’s house (with comic book artist/writer Jill Thompson playing her Aunt) and then a local church (run by WWF wrestler Dustin “Golddust” Runnels). Finding that those places of refuge just as dangerous, Ada and Calvin flee blindly into the forest where even more weird things are going on. This Odyssey of sorts seems to get bleaker and bleaker as the seconds tick by, and while nothing really registers as completely dangerous, there is a looming sense of unease and evil just about everywhere in this film.

Some of the acting is a bit stiff, but at the same time, it makes it feel a bit more real because of that and therefore a bit more dangerous. Michael Foulk’s Calvin often has a flat delivery, but it only highlights how much of a babe in the woods he is in this situation. Lisa Friedrich’s Ada is a bit spacey as well, but again, this distant demeanor fits her troubled character. This is very much a film about two lovers trying desperately to save themselves and Foulk and Friedrich, despite being acting newcomers, made me believe they were this troubled couple, which is the most important thing. Reminiscent of some of the more subtle horror films which take their time to unravel and attack like the film of Ti West and Joe Swanberg, MEET ME THERE has a whole lot going for it in terms of tragic character, gothic atmosphere, and astronomical tension.

CREEP (2014)
aka PEACHFUZZDirected by Patrick Brice
Written by Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Starring Patrick Brice, Mark Duplass
Reviewed by Ambush Bug
I can’t say enough good things about CREEP. It’s one of those films that is brilliant in its simplicity, but by saying that it isn’t giving the film the credit it deserves. This film is the polar opposite of all of the big budget, wham-bang horror films we are used to seeing in that it focuses mainly on strong performances and a rock solid story in order to convey a film that is unlike any you’re bound to see.
CREEP follows a struggling young filmmaker named Aaron (played by director/co-writer Patrick Brice) who answers a Craig’s List ad which leads him to a secluded house in the hills. There he meets Josef (THE LEAGUE’s Mark Duplass who also co-wrote this demented gem), an eccentric who tells Aaron that he is dying of a brain tumor and wants him to film a day in the life, “kind of like the beautiful film MY LIFE with Michael Keaton” as Josef explains. To tell you more would be a disservice to the film but trust me, as the title of the film indicates, Josef’s story is not on the up and up and things get a whole lot creepier.

Still, the whole thing plays out perfectly as Aaron, who is good natured and sympathetic to Josef from the get go, is lead into Josef’s twisted web. Duplass plays Josef a little too uncomfortably real; a manipulative and dangerous character that many may recognize from real life who looks harmless on the outside, but is able to bend and twist situations to drain whomever he is focused on simply to fill a need inside of him that cannot be filled. This is a perfect example of a person who is too gullible and kind hearted getting pulled into the life of someone too selfish and manipulative. The dark places CREEP goes is enough to unsettle and disturb just about anyone and while you want to laugh at how weird Josef is, you can’t help but just stand back and wonder what new kind of craziness is going to happen.
Both Duplass and Brice are amazing in their roles, making this no budget film engrossing simply through their performances alone. For the most part, this film feels like it cost nothing to make as it seems only a camcorder, a mountain home, a pancake lunch, and a weird werewolf mask is the extent of costs necessary to make it all work. But though the budget is small, the talent of the two men behind this film is priceless. Told in the oft scoffed at found footage format of first person handheld POV, CREEP is a deeply disturbing film that is going to get under your skin, camp out, and won’t leave—no matter how hard you try to get it to do so.

CAESAR & OTTO’S PARANORMAL HALLOWEEN (2015)
Directed by Dave CampfieldWritten by Dave Campfield & Sean Steffen
Starring Dave Campfield, Paul Chomicki, Scott Aguilar, Andre Gower, Felissa Rose, Tiffany Shepis, Steph Barkley, Nicole Cinaglia, Debbie Rochon, Monique Dupree, Catherine Corcoran, Brinke Stevens, John J Thomassen, Vernon Wells, Sean Whalen, Shawn C. Phillips, Beverly Randolph, Michael Kean, JamieLee Ackerman, Maximo Gianfranco Sorrentino, Jack McGraw, Samantha Barrios, Deron Miller, Evan Seidlitz, Mike Johansen, Avi K. Garg, Jason Britt, Ken MacFarlane, Josephine Iannece, Scott Aguilar, Kyler Kasarda, Daniel Sullivan
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Reviewed by Ambush Bug
I’ve reviewed a couple of CAESAR & OTTO films in my time doing this here AICN HORROR column and what I like about them is that it really seems like each time the quality of the filmmaking and the humor leaps forward in quality quite a bit. The latest, CAESAR & OTTO’S PARANORMAL HALLOWEEN does so substantially.


I won’t say that this film has the highest production values because it doesn’t. This is fun low budget filmmaking filled with enough genre cameos and nods to the horror industry that will make anyone who ever attended a horror convention laugh more than a few times. If you’re missing the type of non-threatening terrors that the ABBOT & COSTELLO monster mashups used to specialize in, CAESAR & OTTO’S PARANORMAL HALLOWEEN is a nice modern equivalent.
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