I had so much fun talking about the William Grefe movie Impulse. You can get the Grindhouse Releasing blu ray from MVD.
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Rudd (James Michael Taylor) is a rich guy who wants to use his Kronos Project to explore time. He has an actual time machine designed by Dr. Carrington (Jeffrey Combs) and a team ready to go into the time stream and be part of the Civil War and battle dinosaurs and even a Dinoman.
The dinosaurs all come from Planet of Dinosaurs, the Dinoman seems to have the same head as Repligator, the story feels like the Bruce Jones and Richard Corben comic Rip in Time, a train crash that comes out of Horror Express and a feel that is very 70s live action Saturday morning but then there are very adult explorations of the impact of time travel.
Some people are going to see the quality of the acting and the budget and instantly start judging these movies. Maybe they should watch more of Bret McCormick’s movies. This feels like an entire bunch of movies all smashed together into one film and we’re all the better for it.
Directed by Peter S. Seaman (his only directing job, as he was the writer of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Doc Hollywood and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?) who co-wrote it with Jeffrey Price (they also wrote those films together), “My Brother’s Keeper” is about cojoined twins Frank (Tim Stack) and Eddie (Jonathan Stark).
“Are you alone tonight? Well, consider yourself lucky…there could be two of you! And imagine what a fright-mare that could be. Just a reflection. Not so for tonight’s stars, Frank and Eddie. Two brothers who are touchingly close. When a woman tries to come between them, she finds herself caught in a tangled web of jealousy and intrigue. I think you’ll find it a twinning combination. So without futher ado, I bring you “My Brother’s Keeper.””
Frank is the good twin and Eddie the evil one. A doctor can get them apart, but there’s a fifty percent chance they’ll die, so Frank won’t undergo the operation. Frank falls for a girl named Maria (Jessica Harper!) who was actually hired by Eddie to push for the operation, even if Eddie keeps screwing up their dates and love life. He finally kills her with an axe which causes Frank to try and overdose on sleeping pills. When they wake up, they’ve been operated on, but who will the police arrest?

This episode is based on the story of the same name from Shock SuspenStories #16. It was written by William Gaines and Al Felder and drawn by George Evans.
Ron Ormond lived the kind of life none of us will and this movie is the fruit. Get ready to learn about how Communists were about to kill America.
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Directed and written by Steve Sessions (Contagio), Aberrations was made for “the cost of an average funeral.” It’s all based around a connecting story where horror novelist Claire Huston (Dawn Duvurger) uses a Ouija board — adding this to my Letterboxd list — to steal ideas from beyond the veil of the choir invisible from a dead master of terror. That means we get four stories, like Alice (Mona Duvera) dealing with a ventriloquist doll, Bobby (Amber Peach) being watched, a killer (Eric Spudic) geocaching to kill someone (Krystal Stevenson Akin) and grave robbers (Denman Powers, Kirk Jordan) bringing a man (J.C. Pennylegion) his dead wife.
The one skeleton at the end of the trailer looks just like one from Creepshow and that seems intentional. I also like that when it says “four tales of the macabre,” it’s over one of the actresses’ rear ends in a shower and that proves that what sells a horror movie will never change.
This got released before the current run of films like this that are not really connected and are just shorts all thrown together, so at least there’s something making these stories work. This has been seen by hardly anyone on IMDB or Letterboxd, so maybe that will change.
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Ace Cruz didn’t just direct and write this, he also stars in it as Billy, a drug dealer who worries about what he’s doing — even as kids are shot in drive-bys while he’s sitting on a park bench — and gets angry at his girl when she’s stripping. And oh yeah, he’s friends with Todd Bridges from Diff’rent Strokes who is using the drugs they should be selling. There are some martial arts scenes — very slow ones — and an ending that is totally Carlito’s Way except that it cost about the condiment budget of craft services for that movie.
Cruz has gone on to make Psychotic, Urban Task Force, Fate, Desert of Death and Outrage: Born In Terror. But when else would he make a movie where Todd Bridges has a different woman in every single scene? That’s why I kept watching this, even when every single person sold out Billy.
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Greg Salman has only directed one other movie, Adventures In Pornoland, but after watching Mad Dawg, I’m going to check that out after this and not just because Veronica Hart is in it.
With the main character named Mac (Lamik Blake) and his wife called Lady Mac (Lunden De’Leon), it’s kind of obvious that this is blacksploitation take on Macbeth. Yet it works. There’s one really intense scene where Mac has finally risen up and started a series of bloody killings and his lover has to clean the blood from him in the bath as he just stares into nothingness, overwhelmed by what he’s done. Not what you expect for a low budget gangster movie.
This feels dark and bloody and rough in the best of ways. Lived in, if you will. It’s totally unexpected and I want to go back and live through it again.
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Bret McCormick is someone whose movies must be allowed to wash over you. Like this one, which starts with an explanation of what a Bio Tech Warrior is, a “military product of the secret government is intended for use as a policeman, to prevent any insurrection among the citizens in the coming new regime” and something that has been created with pieces and parts of the grey ones.
Sure, it’s a home made costume that looks to combine pieces of BMX gear, a SCUBA suit and some paint, but who cares? When you start with an explanation like that and make a downbeat 90s cyberpunk movie that really wants to be a 60s science gone wrong warning movie, you cannot be wrong or bored.
You just know that if the government made a robot cop for its shadow killing, it would live on human blood.
There’s only one other review of this movie on IMDB and it makes me sad because of how it talks about this movie. They seem angry that they watched it instead of approaching this with the love and wonder that it deserves. Free your mind, my friend.
This week, join Bill and Sam for two totally doom-laden movies at 8 PM ET on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube pages.
Up first, it’s Doctor Death. You can watch it on YouTube.
Every week, we watch two movies, discuss their ads and have cocktails. Here’s the first recipe.
Soul Transfer
Our second movie is Midnight which you can watch on YouTube.
Midnight
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John and Mark Polonia made a slasher with giallo POV moments in which Def Jam comedians are being killed and they’re all friends of Hollaback (Mike Troy Smith), whose career has been ruined by his act and now is getting threatening phone calls.
Just read that sentence again. That’s all you need to know. The idea that this even exists is why I have this website.
Comedians Brooklyn Mike, Kenny Williams, Rob Stapleton, F.O.B, Harris, Mike Yard, Wil Sylvince, Arnold Acevedo, Brad Lowery, Jay Phillips, Kareem, Jerry Ford are all in this, as well as man on the street style interviews that set up the movie’s premise of dying on stage when you bomb and having to face off with the audience who is there to potentially ruin your act by booing you.
This has some solid gore despite how basement level the budget was but you know, I kind of love that someone decided to make a black comedy slasher. Who would have come up with that?
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