Hot Picks
|
|
|
GoatSucker
USA 2009
produced by Steve Hudgins, P.J. Woodside for Big Biting Pig Productions
directed by Steve Hudgins
starring Randy Hardesty, Kim Welsh, Neil Vowels, Emily Fitzmaurice, Marsha Cash, Brandon Schaefer, Steve Hudgins, Amanda Stone, Jack Jones, Tom Dolan, Syd Tate, Megan Jones, Logan Nance, Elaine Ruff, Terri Coon, Amy Workman, P.J. Woodside, Michael Coon, Chris Cook
written and music by Steve Hudgins, songs by Heartbreak Alley, creature costume by Chris Cook
Chupacabra
review by Mike Haberfelner
|
|
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
|
|
Mr. Walters (Tom Dolan) makes his money organizing tours through
"GoatSucker" (English for Chupacabra) country - basically a
strip of land deep in the woods where animals have died under mysterious
circumstances and the Chupacabra might have been sighted. Sure, he
thinks it's all baloney, and encourages his guides to invent stories to
make the hikes creepier, but it's good money nevertheless. Even when one
of his guides (Megan Jones) goes missing in Chupacabra country, he sees no
reason to panic and just asks another guide of his, Heidi (Kim Welsh) to
take over ... and today's little group is a problem one, too: There's
regular young guy Alan (Brandon Schaefer), his ex Rhonda (Emily
Fitzmaurice) who just can't let him go, stocky and shy Eugene (Neil
Vowels), who falls for Rhonda at first sight and now would do anything
just to be close to her, Pam (Marsha Cash), who's past her best years but
still has her sights set on young Alan, and Wayne, who has brought a
handgun to the occasion which he's a bit too willing to pull at every
other occasion. So that's already a pretty tense situation ... but then
Heidi disappears, probably taken by the Chupacabra, and our heroes are
left to their own devices in the middle of the woods - and their own
devices don't get them far ...
So ok, GoatSucker, a slasher/monster hybrid, hasn't
exactly set out to break new cinematic ground - but it spins a well-known
yarn very well, populating it with quirky characters whose individual
storylines are at least as much fun as the shock, suspense and kill
scenes, thus going the exact opposite route of the genre's usual
cannonfodder mentality. Plus, the film's finale that really takes a u-turn
with everything that has gone on before is worth the watch alone. But add
to that a solid directorial effort and an ensemble cast well up to their
roles, and you're in for some very cool genre entertainment.
|
|
|
review © by Mike Haberfelner
|
Feeling lucky? Want to search any of my partnershops yourself for more, better results? (commissions earned) |
The links below will take you just there!!!
|
|
|
Thanks for watching !!!
|
|
|
Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
Out now from Amazon!!! |
|