Reviews by markjazz

This is a fairly well done film with some comedic laughs at times. I think I would have probably giving it a higher rating but I like it better when Vincent Price actually talks by moving his mouth, not through some odd acoustic thing hooked up to his neck. However, it is part of the story so I accept it. Phibes and his wife were in a car crash and everyone thinks Phibes was burned to death. A group of Doctors try to save his wife but she dies on the table. Years later the group of Doctors that worked on Phibes wife start turning up dead and no one knows why at first. The police soon figure out that it is Phibes avenging his wife by using the Old Testament Pharoah curses as inspiration.

The thing I like about this movie is the bad guy wins and the mood at times is pretty creepy, especially the girl assisting Phibes, Vulnavia. The odd thing about this movie is there isn't a single word uttered until 10 minutes in and Vincent Price doesn't speak until after 32 minutes! He does pull off a pretty evil villian though, even though he doesn't talk much until the end. There's a big negative about the promotion I have and that's the fact that they put the climax of the movie on the friggn' poster artwork. We don't find out what Phibes looks like until the very end and it's suppose to be all shocking, but his ugly face is on the damn poster so it kind of ruins it.

The Wumpscut ring tone album! That's basically the best thing about it. I'll start with the artwork. I don't understand how Rudy goes from using death and bones for his art to something that looks like it was on a cover of a PSM magazine, and at least put some color in the drawings of...whatever that thing is. There are some good tracks, Churist Churist, Evoke and Obsessio. There would be more but there is one problem, they sound like pop tunes and the lyrics repeat over and over again throughout the track with just one chorus and a verse for most of the tracks. The 2 remixes are not worth getting this version at all. They sound rushed and too tired. This album took a long while for me to get into, and I don't even like the fact that he used samples from the movie Dance of the Vampires, it doesn't even belong on the track.

Daniel Myer, and his many side projects, always impress me and this ablum impressed me a lot when it came out. After hearing his Ninetynine album I was glad that he went back to a more heavy drum'n bass style. As always he gives us samples to work with too with every other track being just an odd sound that carries into the next song. Pretty much filler tracks but some sound pretty cool. Haujobb uses an array of odd samples mixed with heavy drums and his usual sounding drones that carry along with his vocals. I don't really have a favorite track on here as they're all excellent. There is one downside to Haujobb and it's with his lyrics. I can't bloody understand what he means for the most part. With bands like Skinny Puppy you can get an idea but Haujobb just messes with my brain, but all in all I love the band and this is one album that should be in your collection if your looking for something by him.

One of my favorite industrial singles out there. Plasticity is truly one of the best FLA tracks and represents that phase in their musical career were they shifted from pure industrial to Electro-Industrial. Replicant is the single best "unreleased" track I've heard by them. Heavy beats with samples and a great bass line. We then have one of the greatest remixers out there, Haujobb! His version of Plasticity is just perfect. It features the same bass line with a great new drum set and the tempo seems to be faster. He adds a little phaser to the lyrics too, which add to the bio-mechanical feel of the track. A great single and pretty much one of the best title tracks for FLA.

By 1992 Front Line Assembly was starting to make a name for themselves in a big way and this album helped cement them even further into the industrial scene. Sure there's only eight tracks but there's no bullshit on this release at all. Every track on here is awesome and probably could have had its own single. Ironicly the track I like the least is The Blade, which seemed to be the groups most popular song on this album. So why is this album so good? Well, everything seems to fit so tightly together. The lyrics aren't cheesy, the bass is awesome, the keys are great and the drums are heavy. The effects on the vocals for some tracks are cool too, like on Bio-mechanic during the courses. I love that part of the song and even on the live versions it sounded awesome. Another thing about the track is that, in industrial music, it is very hard to pull off a good sounding slow industrial track. This one though pulls it off and I love it tons!

It's hard for me to pick which Front Line Assembly album is my favourite but it's a close tie with this album and Caustic Grip. Both are so strong and are among my two favourite industrial albums of all time.

This is still my favorite DVOA album and it probably contains some of his best "songs" as well. There are two discs and the first one contains tracks that had other artists involved while the second one is just the man himself, Mark Spybey. Both have 8 tracks each and are generally named after Roman land marks that exsist today, at least disc two is.

Disc one has the "songs" I was talking about and some of these tracks contain lyrics as well. The opening track, Geong G'ume, has some very unique drums played over other odd sounding instruments and while it has structure it still manages to give off an experimental sound as well. Overall it's not my favorite on here but it's a good opener. The Durrow Book starts off with Spybey's ambient touch and picks up after about 100 seconds into it and then a guitar and drums come in mixed with some great ambient organ sounds. Sulphur has one of the oddest distorted vocals in a track I've heard. It's very low and it plays well with the tracks slow moving organ and beat. It doesn't vary much but if you like Leonard Cohen you'd probably like this track. The track gets very beautiful once the course and violins come in. Now we come to my favorite track on this double album, Red Kerre. This track is so dreamy and it has a vocal lyric running through it that say Dark blue sea paying homage to Spybey's view from his home I believe. The cello playing throughout is brilliant and there's some light drums that soon come in. I've played this track a million times and have yet to get sick of it. It moves my brain! Foss Maerum gets us back to Spybey's oddness and it's hard to describe this track. The lyrics seem as if they were written by Genesis P. Orridge too. It ends with a cute little verse from Sugerpill singing a part of Greensleves. Caw Gap is a drone track with vocals that are echoed throughout the track and get louder towards the end. There is a cello being played which is why this track appeared on the first disc and not the second. It's a cool track to shut your eyes too, much like the one's on disc two. Swan Flax is an 11 minute track that doesn't change much at all but features a drum sample that Spybey liked so much he made a track out of it, which is the next one, Castered Carts. Now this track is strong enough to get radio play I believe and features Sugerpill again on vocals. It's an ambient beat number that is one of my favorite female vocal tracks ever! I believe the song was written about homeless people too.

Disc two is all drone. The first two tracks On Hare Hill and Of Hare Hill are one and the same except the first one is a massive 25 minutes. It's a very slow moving drone track that has other low drones fading in and out and the tones get higher as the track moves on. I won't describe each track on here because I'd be repeating myself but the best ones on here, besides track 1, are Voss Pilae and the last two. Overall this album kicks some drone ass and is very unique indeed. A must for drone and DVOA fans.

Dead Voices on Air is credited with as being "Music for the eyes" and with this release it is so true. Mind you, a few of the tracks are pretty weak, but they don't detract from the overall performance of the CD. "Vers" has this smooth hissing noise in it with a slow melodic keystroke or two. The track "Dockwood", that cEvin Key helped on, is not that great and I wouldn't buy the album just because he's on there. The best two tracks on here both happen to be over 10 minutes long. "Caoith" has 4 parts to it and each one is more mind ripping than the next. "Saeculi", my favorite track, is probably one of the scariest tracks I'll ever have the pleasure of listening to. It starts off with a very low bass rumble for about 50 seconds, then it carries off this rumbled loop with heavy bass for another 6 minutes. The final 4 minutes are the best; a scary voice persists with a hissed throbbing sound and again there is the low bass loop. A classic DVOA release for the eyes, mainly the third eye.

This movie was odd but I bought it because I love Roger Corman's products and this 2010 reissue is great. If I was a 10 year old boy I would have loved this movie a ton but now it's just one of those it's so bad it's good type films for me. I can get past the low budget effects, which are good at times, and the fact that it's a poor mans Star Wars, but what makes this movie bomb for me is the acting and overall pace. No one in the movie can act, and what's odd is some of the people in this movie can act in the other ones I've seen so why not this one? A perfect example is Joe Spinell. He was brilliant in Maniac but he sucks big time in this movie. The dialogue might be to blame and it is shitty overall... here was my favorite line:

"When the sun sets I will rule the Universe!"
Count Zarth Arn says that while he is in a Space Station in the middle of no where. What sun set!? LOL
Also, another stupid thing is how little the writers know about astronomy. Space ships apparently float in space instead of fly and I don't think I saw an engine blaze with fire during this whole movie. A Planet covered in ice drops "thousands of degrees once the sun sets." too. Thousands??? WTF? Arg, I could rip this movie apart for every frame but I still love it for some reason and I know that if I had a crappy budget to work with I couldn't make anything as half as good as this! Oh, and I should add that the soundtrack is actually good and I'd get it the first change I saw it!

Well I'm not sure what everyone's bitching about because I've seen a lot worse than this. You can't expect a top notch film with a title like this either. What I noticed that was the big thing with this movie was that the whole atmosphere looked like a CSI episode, what with how it was directed and edited. Personally I'd rather watch this movie than CSI too. There's some good music and sets but the CGI is so inconsistent. Sometimes it looks ok and other times it looks like complete shit! As for the acting it's pretty average, although there was one Navy guy that kept yelling all the time and he sounded so fucking fake. So over all this was an ok movie and what I expected but here's two major things that bugged me. 1) This movie is rated R and I can't figure out why. There's no tits or ass, no human blood, and only a few swears. Doesn't make sense. 2) The Military in this movie has to have the worst fucking aim out of any giant monster movie!

Out of all the original Prom Night movies this one happens to be my favourite. It helps that I had a crush on Vicki Carpenter as well and seeing her full frontal nudity helped out a lot I think too. I like all the death scenes as well and it's not a bad edit of a movie overall. I'm also a big fan of Michael Ironside so I was surprised and delighted to see him in this when I first saw it. I've watched this movie over a dozen times and I feel like watching it right now. The movie leaves it open for a Part III in a neat way, but I highly recommend to never never never watch Part III...it is bloody horrid, and this is coming from a hugh fan of B-movies.

Stats
First Death: 27:30
Last Death: 1:25:16
Total Deaths: 7
Total Deaths by Possessed Vicki: 4
Swears: 13
Tits: 2
Scenes with Tits: 4
Full Frontal Nude Scenes: 2
Scenes with Two Naked Chicks in a Shower: 1
Scenes with Blood: 8
Bad Jokes: 9
References to The Exorcist: 4