Ugh. Jabootu contributor Eva Vandergeld deserves a purple heart for reviewing this thing. In fact, I probably deserve one just for reading about it. Abandon all hope ye who peruse here.

There are a few more mini-reviews up at ET AL. No, I’m not going to tell you what they are: you can go find out for yourselves!

 Although here’s a clue to one of them: 

One more thing for me to abandon in two weeks…

The Hell of 50 Movie Pack
An attempt to trace my journey through  the many Mill Creek 50 Movie packs that I bought. Posts are very short and usually the same as mini-reviews I end up posting on the B Move Message Board and the Teleport City forums (and some is stuff written back when I was trying to do this on Teleport City, but they just didn’t work there), but I thought I’d start collecting them all together into one place.

Birth Rite (2003) is another movie from that odd turn-of-the-millennium period when Full Moon wasn’t really Full Moon; it didn’t know WHAT it was.  (It was bad, yes, but I’m doubting that that was intentional.)  We’ve got bizarre prophecies, inconsistent teen angst, Wiccans treated as if they were a magical subspecies, and a finger-snapping warlock (and not in a good way).

Veneno para las hadas / Poison for the Fairies (1984)

The fifth and last part of my series on the Mexican director Carlos Enrique Taboada. There’s poison here, all right… but it goes straight to a young girl’s soul. I don’t expect many people to agree with my opinion, but I find this quiet, slowly-paced movie much more disturbing than any number of ultra-violent gore flicks.

A while back, I posted some of my favorite search terms that lead people to Teleport City. Well, my next installment is here (not posted here because it’s kind of long and a bit blue in spots).

Dr. Freex has been called away to (literally!) play Van Helsing in a stage version of Dracula, but frequent contributor Howard Paul Burgess has stepped up to the remote to review those two 1980’s camcorder snuff epics, Video Violence and Video Violence 2. Says the Good Doctor: “Man… Better him than me!”