HoopTober6.0 - Movie #1

What a wonderful and wacky movie to kick off HoopTober this year! Blood Diner feels like the long lost sequel of Herschell Gordon Lewis' Blood Feast. Come to find out after I watched this, that this was originally planned to be a re-make. Who knew. I love the Egyptian cult/cannibalism story of Lewis' movie, and his raw, anything goes style of film-making. Blood Diner takes that same attitude and ramps it up a notch. This movie is wild.

The movie starts with two young children, abandoned by their mother, watching their maniac uncle meat cleaver his way through a door, and then get brutally shot down by the cops. All within the first five minutes. And…

Hooptober Fest 5.0
Film 17/46
Six Decades (3/6)
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Last Hooptober I finally watched Herschell Gordon Lewis' schlocky low-budget gorefest Blood Feast, and here I am this year watching its spiritual sequel, Jackie Kong's Blood Diner. I wish I could say that was clever planning on my part, but no, no.

So the filmmakers basically retconned the end of Blood Feast such that our serial-killing caterer Fuad Ramses (now known in this film as Anwar Namtut and played by Drew Godderis) didn't get killed until first visiting his two young nephews and passing on his violent legacy to them to continue after his death! Now as adults, dim bulb brothers Michael & George (Rick Burks and Carl Crew) dig up their…

Hoop-Tober 666 The 12th Recipe

Something I had been turned on to by my cousin of all people. A nutty, gory, cheesecaked-to-the-gills farce about two idiot brothers who decide they should follow in their murderous uncle's footsteps to bring the Egyptian goddess Shee-Tar back to the mortal plane for funsies. This is the Freaked of slasher films; it's loaded with jokes, good and bad, and it don't care if you approve of its methods, so best submit to the madness. There's a bit involving a stranded biker that caught me in my most punch-drunk moments and easily could have sent me to the hospital, I was wheezing for air.

I am most certainly going to pick up the Vestron blu-ray…

Watched for Hooptober 6 on a DVD that has two other movies on it.

Every time Mike or George, the dim nephews, said anything about 'this is the first time this has happened since 5 million BC' I couldn't help laughing. It's the tip of this iceberg of randomness and absurdity. The warning to the audience at the very beginning set the tone nicely.

It seemed almost like the voices had all been dubbed, or maybe everybody was told to do a slight accent of their choice. And sometimes super random stuff happened in the dialog, or in the things happening in the background, or even in the thing happening right in front of the camera (the whole wrestling part,…