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By Emily Booth, Thursday 30th March 2017
We all must learn to love our little monsters, but for one man, birth, bonding and blood get a little too close for comfort in our very black comedy this Friday night. In this very 21st century horror, Bad Milo! (2013) toys with the stresses of modern life and a male identity crisis. The film opens with a young couple attending an ultrasound with their faces looking hopefully on, until the camera pulls out and reveals it ain't wifey in the chair getting the internal - it's hubby!
Meet Duncan, a lovely man with a lovely wife who's beginning to feel the pressures of modern life manifesting into some kind of irritable bowel syndrome. The ultrasound reveals he has a 'polyp' stuck up there, or, as the doctor so delicately puts it, a 'Trooper in your pooper,' due to poor stress management - or so they think. The doctor's orders are 'No more stress,' which is easier said than done when his latest job description involves firing his colleagues at work. Additionally, at home the pressure is on to make an actual real life baby so his wife can be the one in the doctor's chair. Cue the stress, along with the funniest, grossest toilet moment in movie history, for there is no mere polyp residing in Duncan's butt, but a fully blown real life 'stress-demon' - one that bursts out from said butt in order to exact revenge on Duncan's behalf on all those responsible for his mounting stress.
This not only a 21st century horror for dealing with the very current themes of anxiety due to mortgages, job security and fertility, but also for being a very metrosexual horror! Usually it's women taking the starring role in such horrors, be it in film or real life! Pregnancy, invasive examinations, painful birth, post-natal depression...
You name it, we're the ones feeling the pain, and films have dabbled in such themes for decades from Rosemary's Baby to Alien. But not this time! It's Daddy's turn to open wide and birth a monster. YES, finally, a little empathy here! This movie also has something for the male audience to finally relate to - for this is a man who loves his wife, but secretly is scared of starting a family, being a good father and bonding with the child. There are some more serious emotions touched upon here, but it's not long before 'bottom humour' rears its demonic little head and we're treated to another 'birth by butt' nugget of comedy gold.
The demon itself is a cross between a Critter and a Gremlin, with big black eyes and gnashing teeth. Thankfully it's powered by real animatronics and puppetry over pointless CGI, giving this film a real retro feel that also reminded me a lot of the black comedies of Frank Henenlotter.
This truly is a fantastic Friday night piece of pulp fiction that may see poor old Duncan be the butt of all jokes, but somehow manages to be truly disgusting, hilarious, and charming all at once.
Bad Milo! makes its UK TV Premiere this Friday 31st March at 11.20pm.
MORE ARTICLES Horror Channel celebrates Sci-Fi B-Movies with Classic Sci-Fi Weekend in April
Posted in Features, Tuesday 24th March 2020
Horror Channel also celebrates the Sci-fi B-Movie with a Classic Sci-Fi Weekend, featuring the channel premieres of mutant octopus-rampaging It Came From Beneath The Sea, Fred F. Sears' saucer-invading caper Earth Vs The Flying Saucers, Sears' rampaging alien bird yarn The Giant Claw, Jack Arnold's thought-provoking classic The Incredible Shrinking Man and Nathan Juran's Ray Harryhausen inspired 20 Million Miles To Earth.
Broadcast on Saturday 11 April and Sunday 12 April from 2pm, the season also includes more strange creatures and alien invaders with The Thing From Another World, This Island Earth and Journey To The Far Side Of The Sun.
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Groundbreaking gore-fest, Revenge coming to HD
Posted in News, Monday 23rd March 2020
One of the most talked about movies of recent years, Revenge takes the classic exploitation genre by the balls, and now Second Sight Films is giving this groundbreaking gore-fest the Limited Edition Blu-ray box set treatment.
The release features stacks of brand new special features, including a new interview with debut feature writer-director Coralie Fargeat and star Matilda Lutz. Also included are new interviews with the film's cinematographer and the composer, a new commentary and much more. The movie arrives on 11 May 2020 complete with new artwork, designed by Adam Stothard, a poster and a soft cover book with writing by Mary Beth McAndrews and Elena Lazic.
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Screamers in HD, coming soon
Posted in News, Thursday 19th March 2020
101 Films presents Screamers (1995), which is title 013 on the 101 Films Black Label; the cult classic and, chilling sci-fi based on the Philip K. Dick short story Second Variety, and is being released on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK on May 4th.
The year is 2078. The man is rebel Alliance Commander Col. Joseph Hendricksson (Weller), assigned to protect the Sirius 6B outpost from ravage and plunder at the hands of the New Economic Bloc. His state-of-the-art weaponry are known as Screamers: man made killing devices programmed to eliminate all enemy life forms. Screamers travel underground, their intent to kill announced by piercing shrieks. They dissect their victims with sushi precision, then er...
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Interview with Jen and Sylvia Soska, directors of Vendetta
Posted in Interviews, Thursday 19th March 2020
Vengeance Season on Horror contains the UK TV premiere of Vendetta, the superb all-male maelstrom of mayhem from Jen and Sylvia Soska. We chatted to these incredible talented creatives about this action-packed thriller and what they have planned for the future.
HC: Have you always been wrestling fans and if so, when growing up, who were your faves?
Sylvia: We got introduced to wrestling during the epic Kane brother storyline during the Undertaker and Heartbreak Kid feud that led to the first ever Hell in a Cell. I mean after that kind of an introduction; how doesn't the magic of wrestling have your heart for the rest of your life? If it isn't obvious, I'm a Shawn Michaels fan.
Jen: Und...
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UK TV premiere of The Soska Sister's Vendetta leads Horror Channel Vengeance Season in April
Posted in Features, Monday 16th March 2020
April is a wicked month on Horror Channel as cops and villains fight it out in the Vengeance Season, a hard-hitting violent action collection which includes the UK TV premieres of the Soska Sister's all-male maelstrom of mayhem, Vendetta, starring Dean Cain and Paul 'Big Show' Wight, and the fight-to-the death revenge thriller Blood Out, starring Luke Goss, 50 Cent and Vinnie Jones.
Broadcast on Saturday nights at 9pm throughout the month, the season also includes the channel premieres of gritty, bullet-fuelled The Prince, starring Bruce Willis, John Cusack and Jason Patric, and Martin Warren's The Heavy, starring Gary Stretch, Vinnie Jones and Christopher Lee.
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Discover the film legacy of Edgar Allan Poe
Posted in News, Sunday 15th March 2020
No one has influenced the horror genre more than the writings of Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's works have inspired hundreds of films, and this influence is studied in universities around the globe. This is the first time ever that every Poe influenced film has been analyzed in a single book.
Poe Pictures is an invaluable resource to film studies programs and also a critical guide for every fan of these films.
Included is a detailed analysis and critical review of the importance of each film, perspectives from many who have worked on these classic films, and over 100 black and white photographs from the films. With insights into where Poe ends and cinematic liberties begin, Bruce Hallenbeck has fashio...
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Time for The Visitation from Silva Screen
Posted in News, Sunday 15th March 2020
The Visitation is the first commercial release of Paddy Kingsland's vintage Doctor Who synth score, to be made available in physical, digital and vinyl formats.
Based on Eric Saward's book, The Visitation is set in England during the height of the 17th Century Great Plague. The story follows The Doctor and his companion fighting Terileptic, a group of fugitive aliens plotting to make the Earth their new home by spreading a deadly plague. Directed by Peter Moffatt, the atmospheric period drama was initially broadcast on BBC 1 from 15th to 23rd February 1982 in four twice-weekly parts, and featured Peter Davison as the fifth Doctor.
Paddy Kingsland's arrival at the BBC radiophonic...
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For the first time in physical form the score to The Sun Makers.
Posted in News, Sunday 15th March 2020
The Sun Makers is the first commercial release of Dudley Simpson's distinctive Doctor Who score, to be made available in physical, digital and vinyl formats.
Famously, the Christian conservative campaigner Mary Whitehouse misunderstood Doctor Who to be a children's programme and thanks to her relentless fight, the BBC was forced to replace the programme's original production team. The new team was under orders to curb the violence and replace it with a more playful and comedic fantasy tone. The result was The Sun Makers, featuring Tom Baker as the fourth Doctor and Louie Jameson as his assistant Leela. Robert Holmes's story was a clever and amusing spoof of bureaucracy and the tax system, ...
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Discover a new Eden in April thanks to Tim Lebbon
Posted in News, Sunday 15th March 2020
From the bestselling author of The Silence comes a brand-new, original eco-horror which will delight fans of Jeff VanderMeer and Josh Malerman, set in a near-future world in which self-preservation truly is the first law of nature.
In a time when Earth's rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all-but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction, the Virgin Zones were established in an attempt to combat the change. Off-limits to humanity and given back to nature, these thirteen vast areas of land were intended to become the lungs of the world.
Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventurers into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Attracted by the challenges ...
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Project Tic Toc is running once more on Horror
Posted in Features, Sunday 15th March 2020
For his third TV production, legendary producer Irwin Allen turned to the theme of history, past and present, The Time Tunnel.
The concept is nice and straight forward: Project Tic-Toc is an experimental Time Machine project which has been created at huge cost by the United States Government. So far, their efforts have designed and built "The Time Tunnel", a sort of multi-dimensional corridor you can walk down to enter "the living past or future" in any point of time. But after a decade the Government want real results after such an investment and ask for volunteers to prove that the project works. Up steps Dr. Anthony Newman (James Darren, yes, THE James Darren) who defies all attempts to stop him f...
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Eaglemoss' Hero Collector debuts new range of Ghostbusters Chibi merch
Posted in News, Friday 13th March 2020
Hero Collector - designers, manufacturers, and publishers of high-quality collectibles from across pop culture - cracks open the containment field to reveal a new range of Ghostbusters Chibi merchandise: fun pin badges, t-shirts, and socks, decorated with Ghostbusters art in the distinctive chibi-style of small, cutesy caricatures!
The new range includes a whopping 19 all-new pin badge designs, including all four original Ghostbusters: Peter, Ray, Egon, and Winston, as well as Janine, Louis, and Dana! Their gear gets the same treatment, with the Fire House, the Ghost Trap, and four different Ecto-1 designs. And what would the Ghostbusters be without these six iconic g...
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From the producers of Sinister comes The Wolf Hour
Posted in News, Friday 13th March 2020
The Wolf Hour is the edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller where fear of the outside world greys the line between the real and imaginary.
July 1977. New York City is awash with escalating violence. A citywide blackout triggers city wide panic with rampant looting, crime and fire. June (Naomi Watts), once a celebrated counterculture figure, retreats from the chaos shutting herself inside the yellowed walls of her grandmother's South Bronx apartment. But her doorbell is ringing incessantly, the heat is unbearable, and creeping paranoia and fear take hold. Visitors, some invited, some not, arrive one by one, and June must determine whom she can trust and whether she can find a path back to her former se...
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