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| KILL AND GO DIE (aka "THE CHILD") - 1977 - Robert Voskanian Surprising
lesser known film about a little girl with the powers to raise the dead
which she uses to take revenge on those who killed her mother.
By no means is this a good quality film, but it's just weird enough
and creepy to be quite enjoyable. Soon after a young lady "Alicianne"
takes a job as a nanny in a remote mansion, she discovers something
strange about the little girl she's hired to watch "Rosalie".
She spends a lot of time in the cemetery supposedly visiting her mothers
grave. One by one people start to disappear and it ends up being
a full-blown Zombie flick by the end. According to records, this
was director Robert Voskanian's one and only directed film! Writer
Ralph Lucas did a few other things, but for the most part everyone involved
with the film had limited careers. There's a decent color to the
film, but the lighting sometimes is really sparatic. Voskanian
manages to create some very spooky scenes, from using props as simple
as tombstones to jack-o-lanterns. The packaging for this can be
deceiving. It was labelled as "World Of Horror" but
when you looked closer you realized that was a another company's packaging
or label. I was even under the "W" section. If
you find this one, check it out, it has the feel of Italian Horror films
and has some entertaining value to it. |
| THE KILLINGS AT OUTPOST ZETA - 1980 - Director: Bob Emenegger, Allan Sandler A group
of astronauts and scientists are chosen on a suicide mission to the
planet Zeta to investigate why another group hasn't been heard from.
Sound familiar? Well, this wasn't the first to follow this format,
and certainly not the last. The effects and settings are very
dated, and their weapons look like Hair Dryers and their moon boots
were laughable. It's hard to believe Star Wars was out around
this era. The music background is eerie, and it's consistent and
repetitive nature reminded me of a John Carpenter movie. The action
is fairly slow, but the view from the creature is effective... low budget
yes, but effective. This is basically a Science Fiction film,
but the nature of the death's pulls it into the horror genre.
The acting is overdone, but they somehow keep your attention. |
| KOLOBOS - 1999 - Director: Daniel Liatowitsch, David Todd Ocvirk If you can
make it through the first 20 minutes of annoying MTV-type dialogue,
you're in for pretty disturbing ride. A group of college aged
kids are chosen for an experiment inside a house completely wired with
video camera's, much like the "Real World". They end
up getting locked up in the house and strange gory things begin to happen.
This one keeps you guess, and fairly confused throughout and you get
the feeling there's some extreme evil at work here. The term "Kolobus"
apparently means "mutilated" so you can imagine where this
one is going. Some may consider this a glorified "Slasher"
but it's much deeper and more disturbed than that. The actors,
as bad as they were in the first 15 minutes were incredible once the
fear factor rose. |
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