My name is Jesse Lee Alan Bartel and I love being a critic on things you don't care about. I love films, horror, writing, and violent video games. Hope to hear from you and happy stabbings. I am also a regular contributor to The Liberal Dead.
Low budget horror films tend to suffer from the same tropes or pitfalls, they try to be too funny or they create characters that you don’t care about. That is why having to review certain films can be a laborious and painstaking process. Along comes Exit 33 featuring our boy Kane Hodder. Now, I know [...]
Gore is an interesting aesthetic for me when seen in films because it can be either humorous or horrific and depending on who you are, gore might just be the selling point of a specific film (I like my slashers messy). I really enjoy violent films (horror or otherwise) because of their fantastical and brutal [...]
It was a brisk winter day here in Brisbane, Australia and the leaves were beginning to change their color in order to adapt to the cooler weather that has invaded Australia’s tropical climate. The air moved quickly around me as I made my way up the path from the main building on campus. I was [...]
Breaking Glass Pictures will release the Thai horror film The Coffin on DVD August 30 under the Vicious Circle Films label. Based on a real-life ritual and shot partially on ancient Thai spiritual grounds, The Coffin was a box office phenomenon in Thailand, breaking records for highest grossing Thai film of all time upon its [...]
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Tommy Brunswick’s horror film Exit 33 on DVD August 2 under the company’s Vicious Circle Films label. The film stars genre legend Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees of the Friday the 13th series) as a backwoods gas station owner who captures and tortures a group of unlucky travelers. Synopsis: A [...]
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Rania Ajami’s debut film Asylum Seekers on DVD August 30 under the Vicious Circle Films label. The surreal dark comedy depicts six strangers competing for admittance into a luxurious mental asylum where only one empty bed remains. Synopsis: Work, deadlines, family, terrorism, information overload … As modern life pushes [...]
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director Faye Jackson’s vampire tale Strigoi: The Undead on DVD August 2 under the Vicious Circl Films label. The dark comedy follows the quirky inhabitants of a Romanian village who learn that there are vampires among them. Synopsis: After failing to start a life of his own, 20-something Vlad is [...]
Film slated for limited theatrical and Blu-Ray release in 2011-2012. Acort International, in association with Nocturnal Features and Midnight Releasing, the premier independent distributors’ for independent filmmakers, has just acquired The Afflicted from Afflicted Picturehouse for a world-wide distribution. The film was produced by Lee Dashiell and Leslie Easterbrook and was written and directed by [...]
“My devil had been long caged, he came out roaring” (Stevenson 79). Many people know the tale of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde at its most basic level; an educated man creates a potion that transforms him into a creature that terrorizes London’s nighttime streets. This is correct in saying but the entire story and [...]
Let me first start off by saying that I think A Serbian Film is a fantastic, thought provoking film. When I first watched it upon its release, (a very close friend of mine got an imported version) I was not disgusted by the film (as many were) but unsure about how I felt. After thinking [...]
The college that I am studying at here in Australia (University of Queensland) has a large multimedia library. The other day, after finishing a paper, I thought I would reward myself by going to the DVD shelves and seeing what films I could take out to view in my newly acquired free time. I perused [...]
Breaking Glass Pictures will release director John Huckert’s erotic thriller Strangers Online on DVD July 26. The film, from the makers of the 90’s cult hit Hard follows an Internet talk show host whose newest intern turns out to be a dangerously obsessive fan. SYNOPSIS: Hollis Parker hosts a nightly web show that brings together [...]
With the current release of Scream 4 (2011) in theaters and the positive reviews it has received so far, I thought it would be important to discuss the cultural significance of the first Scream (1996). I assume that most of the readers here have already seen this film, so I will save you from a [...]
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