TRICK OR TREAT (1986)

Eddie Weinbauer is a rocker goddamn it! Screw all those jocks and preppies at his high school, they just don't understand man! His favorite rock musician is the outspoken Sammi Curr. So when Sammi dies in a hotel fire, Eddie is crushed. He sits in his room and pouts while rocking out. Then he gets his hands on a rare recording of Sammi and it changes his whole life...cause it's possessed! Oh fook!!!

Weird stuff happens and the next thing you know a demon is slithering out of some earphones and molesting/melting a sweaty naked chick...and that's just the beginning because soon Sammi himself returns to kill!!  Eddie ends up being not a true metalhead after all because he's against all the killing.  Poser.  So now it's up to him and his cute girlfriend to stop the electrified demon spirit of Sammi from killing everybody on the planet...or at least his high school.

TRICK OR TREAT is a fun 80's cheese-metal horror movie. Terrible 80's rock, "Skippy" from "Family Ties" completely miscast as the main character, cameo appearances by Ozzy Osbourne and Gene Simmons, quick pace (the stuff right after Sammi's return is the highlight of the movie), lots of high school scenes, 80's hair metal merch, nice little topless scene, 80's fashions.

Not quiet as awesome as BLACK ROSES, but better than ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE. If you dig goofy 80's horror then it's worth checking out. Might make an interesting double-feature with BRAINSCAN.

Mic hanging way down.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE III (FINAL SEQUENCE) (2015)

Ohhhhh!  Look what the movie elves left at my front door today!  THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE 3!  How exciting is that?  As you don't remember, I was bored with the first film, but amused with the second one, so here's hoping that Part 3 will continue the series' improved progression.

The first few minutes are pretty interesting since it opens with the closing scene of Part 2.  The camera then reveals that it is just a movie being shown on a television set.  But who's watching the TV?!  Holy fook, it's the dudes from both Part 1 and Part 2!!!  They're the warden (Dieter Laser from Part 1) and his accountant/assistant (Laurence R. Harvey from Part 2) of the George H. W. Bush State Prison.  Both are insane and they have a problem with the prisoners always rioting and wrecking shit.  It's destroying their budget!  What would be the perfect solution to their problem?  Why a humongous human centipede, of course!

Overall, THC3 was better than I expected, but that's not saying much.  The opening act was the highlight of the film, but unfortunately, after that, it kinda stalls for awhile until we finally get to see the finished massive centipede.  Was it worth the wait?  Ehhhh...not really.  There was only a few minutes of it, it never moved and there was no closure as to what happened to it.  Even with the disappointing ending, I don't regret watching THC3.  I enjoyed how all three films with their wildly different stories were connected to each other ending-to-beginning (just like a human centipede) and I really enjoyed the acting by the two leads in this film.  Dieter was over-the-top as fuck and Harvey's accent had me smiling.

I really hope this isn't the end of the THC series.  The potential of The Human Centipede has barely even been touched on.  In no part during the series did the filmmakers ever mention The Human Centipede's magical properties...it's a widely known fact that if you stand in the middle of a ten-person Human Centipede circle that you can use it as a time machine and that if you can train your twelve-person Human Centipede to stand up under it's own power you will gain eternal life.  Also the remake possibilities are endless: HONEY, I SHRUNK THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE; DUDE, WHERE'S MY HUMAN CENTIPEDE; WEEKEND AT THE HUMAN CENTIPEDES (I like this one because it's a comedy about some guys trying to convince people that their dead Human Centipede is still alive); ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE; THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE'S DAY OFF; ERNEST SCARED THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE STUPID; ABOUT LAST NIGHT...WITH THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE; I KNOW WHAT THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE DID LAST SUMMER; CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN HUMAN CENTIPEDE; OH GOD! YOU HUMAN CENTIPEDE; V FOR HUMAN CENTIPEDE; STOP! OR MY MOM WILL HUMAN CENTIPEDE (this one's about how Rocky Balboa's mother can self-replicate herself into a Human Centipede when angry); STOP! OR MY HUMAN CENTIPEDE WILL SHOOT; THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE DOES DALLAS; ALL THE PRESIDENT'S HUMAN CENTIPEDES; THE MAN FROM H.U.M.A.N. C.E.N.T.I.P.E.D.E.; CENTIPEDIN' 2: ELECTRIC BOOGALOO; DON'T TELL MOM THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE IS DEAD; SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN HUMAN CENTIPEDES; LICENSE TO HUMAN CENTIPEDE (this is the one where the Human Centipede lied to his parents about getting his driver's license); NOT WITHOUT MY HUMAN CENTIPEDE; ALL HUMAN CENTIPEDES GO TO HEAVEN; THROW HUMAN CENTIPEDE FROM THE TRAIN; DON’T BE A MENACE TO HUMAN CENTIPEDE WHILE DRINKING YOUR JUICE IN THE HOOD; LAST HUMAN CENTIPEDE ON THE LEFT; ALONG CAME A HUMAN CENTIPEDE; THE CONJURING: THE DEVIL MADE ME HUMAN CENTIPEDE; THE ENGLISHMAN WHO WENT UP A HILL BUT CAME DOWN A HUMAN CENTIPEDE; THE GODS MUST BE HUMAN CENTIPEDES; HORTON HEARS A HUMAN CENTIPEDE!; WERNER HERZOG EATS HIS HUMAN CENTIPEDE…I mean this could just go on forever.

Part 1 - The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009)
Part 2 - The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence) (2011)

GREEN FOR DANGER (1946)

GREEN FOR DANGER is a delightful and subtlety quirky, but still serious whodunit set in a British country hospital during World War II. The war backdrop is especially interesting because throughout the movie V1 flying bombs cruise overhead. You could hear the V1's rocket and right before they hit the rocket would cut off and put it into a steep dive. So that meant when you heard the silence kick in you better get to cover quick! I thought that was a really inventive way to create tension.

The film starts off like a soap opera, with the different romantic dramas of the various nurses and doctors, but then a patient dies as he's being prepped for surgery. The only people present were the six main characters (two doctors and four nurses). An investigation is called for and rumors swirl that it was murder. That night at a party a nurse outright says that it was murder in front of everybody and a few minutes later she's stabbed to death! Scotland Yard sends in Inspector Cockrill to solve the case. He's a droll, quirky older gentleman who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is (he even accidentally causes another death during the course of his investigation!) and whose main means of investigation is keeping all of the suspects extremely agitated.

Not the greatest mystery, but an enjoyable time waster with good performances and a satisfying ending.