Lock, Stock, and Two Film Geeks

Drag Me to Hell, Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn, and Spider-Man take the stage as we cover the work of Sam Raimi.  He’s a big filmmaker with two blockbusters on deck, so we dig into what makes him great, and what might make him not.  Our guest this week was our very own columnist, Fil Garrison.

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This week marks the FINAL FILM DUEL in its regular sense. Yes, that’s right, Benn and I have decided to retire the format in favor of solo reviews for now. This allows us to review more of the movies we want, offer you more content per week, and does away with that pesky problem of us agreeing on everything. If we do find we disagree strongly, there’s always room for rebuttal reviews, right? This doesn’t mean you’ll never see a Film Duel review again, but we’ll save them for times when we know the movie is truly fitting of the treatment. In the mean time, please savor the column in its final death moans, as we review the ultra-low-budget film Dance of the Dead. It’s zombies at a high school prom, what could go wrong?

Dance of the Dead
Year: 2008
Directed by: Gregg Bishop
Written by: Joe Ballarni
Starring: Jared Kusnitz, Greyson Chadwick
Genre: Horror (Zombie)

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This week on the podcast we picked out three Horror films to go with our Halloween release.  We bring on guest host Fil Garrison to help us talk about Poltergeist, Dead Alive, and ZOMBIELAND!  This is the first time we’ve ever talked about a movie currently in theaters on the podcast, so listen up.

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Film Duel is our written review format in which Benn and James each review a film, and then comment on each other’s reviews to give a proper balance and really fill out the commentary as well as possible. This week we take on the abomination that is the legen — wait for it- DAIRY film that goes by the name of Troll 2.

Troll 2
Year: 1990
Dir.: Claudio Fragasso
Written by: Rossella Drudi and Claudio Fragasso
Starring: Michael Stephenson, George Hardy, Margo Prey
Genre: Horror

Benn and James’ reviews and rebuttals follow after the jump. Continue reading