Horror Bulletin Monthly May 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #20
By Brian Schell
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Horror Bulletin Monthly May 2023 (#20)
The newest issue of the Horror Bulletin Monthly includes reviews of everything we reviewed last month-- a film each day! As always, we look at a wide range of films, from the distant past to the newest releases. This time, we did a heavy load of newly released films, and we thought most of them were pretty good!
Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers today.
Movie Reviews
1964 The Flesh Eaters
1966 The Psychopath
1970 Colossus: The Forbin Project
1977 Murder to the Tune of Seven Black Notes
1981 The Musters' Revenge
1982 The Slumber Party Massacre
1992 Candyman
1995 Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh
1999 Candyman: Day of the Dead
2006 Skinwalkers
2008 Dance of the Dead
2011 Shark Night
2012 Slumber Party Massacre
2013 Under the Skin
2014 Cowboys Vs Zombies: The Devil's Crossing
2014 The Frankenstein Theory
2015 Frankenstein vs. The Mummy
2016 The Disappointments Room
2019 Fulci for Fake
2020 The Night House
2021 Candyman
2023 Children of the Corn
2023 Cocaine Bear
2023 You're Killing Me
Short Films
2023 Short film: The Rotting of Casey Culpepper
2023 Short Film: Goodnight Gracie
2023 Short Film: Jameson
2023 Short Film: Make Me a Sandwich
Brian Schell
Brian Schell is a College English Instructor who has an extensive background in Buddhism and other world religions. After spending time in Japan, he returned to America where he created the immensely popular website, Daily Buddhism. For the next several years, Schell wrote extensively on applying Buddhism to real-world topics such as War, Drugs, Tattoos, Sex, Relationships, Pet Food and yes, even Horror Movies. Twitter: @BrianSchell Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brian.Schell Web: http://BrianSchell.com
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Horror Bulletin Monthly May 2023 - Brian Schell
INTRODUCTION
Welcome to the May issue of Horror Bulletin Monthly. In this one, we cover the reviews from April 2023.
HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS
As always, we watched some gems and some stinkers. We watched all the Candyman
series of films for one week and then dug through our local Dollar Store
bin for some DVDs for the next week. We then watched a handful of brand-new movies to recover from that fiasco!
Here’s what we each thought stood out this month:
Brian liked Cocaine Bear
way more than he thought he would and the original Candyman
more than he remembered. The Night House
and Under the Skin
are disturbing, but also very nice-looking films. The artificial intelligence classic, Colossus: The Forbin Project
is both incredibly dated and more relevant than ever.
On the bad side, Cowboys Vs. Zombies
was truly awful in every conceivable way, and The Frankenstein Project
wasn’t much better. The Munsters’ Revenge
and Fulci for Fake
were trying too hard to reach something they couldn’t. Also, The Disappointments Room
could have been a good movie, but they seem to have lost the final act somewhere.
Kevin’s pleasant surprises of the month were Cocaine Bear,
which he really enjoyed as well as Colossus: The Forbin Project,
which he’d never seen before despite how long it has been around. His lowest grade was for the appropriately named The Disappointments Room,
which had an unsatisfying end. The Munsters’ Revenge
and the third Candyman movie Candyman: Day of the Dead
were missed opportunities that should have been much better than they were. Under The Skin
is one he’d like to see again. And his winner for the month is the original Candyman,
which, like Brian, he liked even better this time around than when it came out.
NEW BOOK - THE HORROR GUYS GUIDE TO THE HORROR FILMS OF PETER CUSHING
He’s Been Dr. Frankenstein, Grand Moff Tarkin, Van Helsing, Doctor Who, and Sherlock Holmes. He’s fought Dracula, werewolves, ghouls, gorgons, Nazi zombies, upstart rebels, ancient mummies, skulls, aliens, and even the abominable snowman.
With a range from cold, calculating malevolence to kindly grandpa, Peter Cushing enthralled horror (and non-horror) fans for decades. With a humble start with Laurel and Hardy in Hollywood, to a low point where he couldn’t get anything but BBC Radio roles, Cushing always knew he was made for acting. Still, it wasn’t until Hammer Films decided to remake Frankenstein
that Cushing’s star really began to rise.
Starring in dozens of chilling films from Hammer and Amicus, he soon became one of the great icons of horror. Toward the end of his career, he took a role as Tarkin in Star Wars,
which popularized him with an entirely new generation of fans that couldn’t get enough of his earlier work. We’re here to look at his horror films. *All* of them.
This is not a Peter Cushing biography. What the book does do is go through each and every one of Cushing’s horror films, going through a *complete* synopsis, including spoilers and commentary. We’ll look at Cushing’s array of characters shift from the evilest incarnation of Dr. Frankenstein to lovable old benefactors. We’ll look at fifty horror films and eight important non-horror films that are significant in Cushing’s career.
Pick it up here: https://brianschell.com/b/cushing
NEW BOOK - FREE!
Last month, we released "The Horror Guys Guide to the Halloween Films" For a limited time, it’s absolutely free on our web store. Go to https://brianschell.com/b/halloween to pick up the ebook [epub/pdf] version of the book. The site also has a link to order a paperback version (not free).
WEB STORE
You can now pick up ebook editions of all our Horror Guys Guides
and all back issues of Horror Bulletin Monthly
issues as well as our fiction stories at https://brianschell.com/ and then click on the appropriate category. Or pick them up at any of the usual e-book places. Although we don’t sell paperbacks from our site, there are links to pick them up on the store site as well.
Also note that our Horror Guys Guides
(not the Horror Bulletin Monthlies) are also now available in hardcover.
EMAIL US
As always, we’d love to hear YOUR opinions on the films and critique our reviews. Contact us at email@horrorguys.com
And now… Here. We. Go!
PART ONE
MOVIE REVIEWS
1964 THE FLESH EATERS
Directed by Jack Curtis
Written by Arnold Drake
Stars Martin Kosleck, Byron Sanders, Barbara Wilkin
Run Time: 1 Hour, 27 Minutes
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec9Js0iL9VI
SPOILER-FREE JUDGMENT ZONE
It’s got a surprising amount of gore considering the age of the movie and budget. There’s a decent story, some horror tension, decent acting, and direction. Don’t overthink the science though.
SYNOPSIS
Ann and her boyfriend Fred are out on a boat, and he’s really annoying. They both jump in for a swim. There’s a strange noise, and they both sink to the bottom and bubbles come up as credits roll.
Jan Letterman wants to hire Grant Murdoch’s plane to take her and Laura to Provincetown. There’s bad weather coming in, but she offers triple his regular rate. The engine starts to cut out even before the storm.
They land on a deserted beach. They must tie down the airplane before the storm hits. Laura’s a drunken movie star, and Jan is her assistant or secretary. As they walk along the beach, they run into Professor Peter Bartell in his wetsuit.
Laura soon stumbles across a skeleton in the sand. It’s what’s left of Ann. Peter blames sharks. They go to Peter’s tent and see his creepy bird. I assure you we are for a good pounding,
Peter says as the storm rolls in.
Morning comes, but the wind is too high to take off. Jan says that Laura has some mental issues that keep her from acting. Grant is suspicious of Peter, who’s been deceptive about the sharks.
Peter is clearly jealous of Grant; he thinks that Laura’s interested in Grant, but she’s only interested in getting more booze. She ends up biting him and running away. She goes back to the plane for her bottles but passes out on the beach.
Peter finds a glowing fish skeleton. Then he finds Laura passed out and unties the airplane.
Grant finds dead fish too, and Peter theorizes that it might be a parasite of some kind. Grant decides it’s time to get off this island. Then they find Laura next to the plane anchor—but no plane. Naturally, they blame her.
Grant spots something glowing in the water—something alive. There are millions of the things in the water. Laura finds her booze-filled suitcase out on the rocks and goes after it. Grant rescues her, but he accidentally steps in the bubbling water.
He cuts off his pants leg and it’s a boiling bloody mess under there. Peter cuts the things off, and they tie up his leg. He also collects a few specimens in a metal cigarette case, but it quickly burns a hole through the metal.
Peter says his supply boat is coming tomorrow, and they’ll be able to leave that way. In the meantime, some guy floats up on a raft, and the small glowing silver dust-things that eat flesh crawl up onto his raft and burn his feet. He comes onto shore, and Peter cuts his sandals off. He’s Omar, a really stupid beatnik-hippie type.
We cut to Matt and Jim, two sailors that run supplies to Peter. Matt gets into a boat and heads to the island.
Back on the island, Grant asks Peter about his huge solar power unit. Why does he need so much power? He demonstrates on some sample creatures. He electrocutes a bunch of them in a beaker. He wants to run a long wire to the beach and electrocute the ocean (I don’t think it works like that).
About 55 minutes later, the Flesh Eaters
come back to life, but Peter keeps that to himself. Matt comes up on his boat, but the flesh-eaters eat—his flesh. After that, Peter puts one of the things in Omar’s drink. The things eat their way out, which is surprisingly gory for a film this old.
Laura goes back to the tent and finds that the flesh eaters that Peter experimented on are not dead. Not only that, but it looks like they are growing. She knows Peter knows more