{"id":8693,"date":"2022-10-10T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattshorroraddiction.com\/?p=8693"},"modified":"2022-10-10T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T12:13:49","slug":"deadstream-living-dead-at-manchester-morgue-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/?p=8693","title":{"rendered":"Deadstream, Living Dead at Manchester Morgue, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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DEADSTREAM<\/strong> (2022)<\/em> If The Blair Witch Project<\/em> and Evil Dead 2<\/em> had a baby it might look like Deadstream<\/em>, a funny, reverent, and highly inventive little scare show. To facilitate his comeback, disgraced internet celebrity, Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter, co-director), decides to lock himself inside a supposedly haunted house for one night, live streaming the entire event on his social media channel. Things don’t go as planned when Shawn accidentally lets loose a vengeful spirit and her army of evil minions that turns the recording into a real horror show. Sardonically poking fun at not just found footage but the influencer\/YouTube generation, the movie is able to navigate through its simple premise with sustained confidence from its successful mixing of humor and scares – not to mention some creepy and original paranormal activity. A fun, energy-filled romp with good writing (by Winter and co-director, Vanessa Winter) and some terrific prosthetic make-up FX that help give the movie an authentic love-for-the-genre feel, something sadly missing these days. B<\/strong>+<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BLOOD AND LACE<\/strong> (1971)<\/em> After her prostitute mother is viciously murdered by someone with a hammer, teenager Ellie (Melody Patterson) is sent to live in a youth home run by the sadistic Mrs. Deere (Gloria Graham), a psychopath who, along with her deranged handyman (Len Lesser), tortures and kills those who try to run away. Ellie becomes so embroiled in her new situation that she doesn’t realize a masked man with a hammer is stalking her from a distance. An odd little movie, this is obviously an early template for the modern slasher, complete with the red herring, the final girl, and the character who twists their ankle while being chased by the killer. Not exactly good, Blood and Lace<\/em> is interesting enough to keep the viewer’s attention, up until its busy climax. The prologue depicts the point-of-view of the killer breaking into a house, taking a weapon from the kitchen drawer, and going upstairs and killing a woman in the bedroom. One wonders if John Carpenter was at all influenced by this for the opening of Halloween<\/em>. C<\/strong>+ <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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CEMETERY OF TERROR<\/strong> (1985)<\/em> A group of teens get more than they bargained for on a quiet Halloween night when they bring dead serial killer, Devlon (Jos\u00e9 G\u00f3mez Parcero) back to life as part of a Satanic ritual prank. Things get even worse when the zombified Devlon uses his own black magic to make the nearby cemetery turn into a walking dead jamboree. Characters are dumb and exist solely to get their guts ripped out, but the movie’s cobweb aesthetics and gothic graveyard setting help create a fun little flick despite its shortcomings. The pacing is slow but kicks into high gear around the halfway point when the characters you think are the protagonists are dispatched and a new group of characters show up, turning the tables on the viewer. It all comes to a bloody boiling point at the end when the film explodes with energy, delivering an exciting and satisfying conclusion. B<\/strong>–<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE <\/strong>(1974)<\/em> Overrated Italian\/Spanish reworking of Night of the Living Dead<\/em> filmed in Derbyshire, England, in which two strangers (Ray Lovelock and Cristina Galb\u00f3) get caught in the middle of a nightmare when an experimental herbicide brings the dead back to flesh-craving life. A thick, creepy atmosphere and genuine suspense helps overcome a sluggish pace and an absurd police investigation subplot involving a hardboiled detective (Arthur Kennedy) who believes the mutilated bodies left by the zombies are actually the work of hippie Satanists! Most of the zombie action is saved for the last 20 minutes, and they’re good and gory, with excellent splatter handled by Giannetto De Rossi (Zombie<\/em>). It’s easy to see where Lucio Fulci could have been inspired by this film for his future zombie epic, The Beyond<\/em>. B<\/strong>– <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEADSTREAM (2022) If The Blair Witch Project and Evil Dead 2 had a baby it might look like Deadstream, a funny, reverent, and highly inventive little scare show. To facilitate his comeback, disgraced internet celebrity, Shawn Ruddy (Joseph Winter, co-director), decides to lock himself inside a supposedly haunted house for one night, live streaming the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capsule-reviews"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matt.doppiavvu.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}