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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.

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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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This was directed by Steve Lustgarten, who won the 1983 Academy Award for Best Student Film. When you read the plot — “Unstable thirty-something introvert, who works as a photographer’s assistant, becomes obsessed with his underage female neighbor” — you might think that this is going to be exploitative. It’s not. Instead it comes across as completely real even if we’d never make the decisions that the characters live through.

Written by Lustgarten and his leads, Jay Horenstein (who plays Paul) and Nicole Harrison (who plays Lisa), this movie feels like we’re looking at actual lives. Sadly, American Taboo was the only movie Harrison made during a time that she said that she was “a poet from the Northwest who joyously misspent her youth in Hollywood.” Even more depressing is the fact that she died in 2011 from brain cancer. She feels like someone who could have broken through in some way to be a star.

You can see this as troublesome and wish fulfillment because the young girl is the aggressor in this movie, but it’s also so well made that I didn’t come away feeling strange or grossed out by it. Paul seems like someone who can’t connect with anyone and so when he does feel something with Lisa, it does seem like something that is only happening in his head even if it is the reality within the movie. He feels regret because he sees this as something that he could have kept from doing but Lisa is more of a realistic person, knowing that she wanted it and that it seemed like it was happening regardless of whatever front of morality Paul had erected.

What a strange film to be in the Visual Vengeance library of movies.

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Imani (Shatara Curry) has a boyfriend she’s putting through college while she works a job and is in school herself. After giving everything to her man, she feels like he doesn’t care, so after advice from her girlfriends — who are all getting abortions at the same time from the same doctor — she gets rid of him and goes to the club, where she meets Flip (Esteban Lastra) who takes her away for the weekend.

The problem is one of his friends watches her ex grab her behind and they assume she’s a gold digger. She’s drugged and assaulted several times, including after they leave by a hotel worker who she follows and murders. She finds herself hunting down all of the men who raped her before realizing that she may never run out of victims.

This is a movie that somehow combines live performances of spoken word with an abortion and a castration. It’s intense and at the same time quite cheap in the best possible sense of the word, feeling real and messy and I love that. Directed by Roderick Giles and written by Jeff Carroll (Holla If I Kill You), it’s in no way perfect but who needs that? It’s instead a film that looks at the war between the sexes and responds with bullets to the head and knives to dicks.