Kickstarter: Party Slashers

Hey folks you know here at THN we love to show support for anything indie especially when it comes to indie horror. Thanks to a contact I got word of a brilliant project going on that I think is truly worth showing your support.

It's a got horror, it's got comedy all obviously present from the trailer here:

Certainly worthy of something of more length no?
Well if you guys are interested in supporting this project they are offering a bunch of incentives over on their kickstarter page.
Things from a grindhouse poster or even a quick beheading cameo!
That's right show enough support and you can have you own head removed!
So if your interested please go and take a gander over at:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1454237333/party-slashers-a-horror-comedy-see-test-scene

Thats all from THN
Horror master signing off!!!!

Exclusive look at Under the Flesh Comic (Kickstarter)

Here's the official press release from J.L.

Independent comic book creator Gilbert Deltres, with artist J.L. Giles, are set to launch their first Kickstarter for Zombie Comic UNDER THE FLESH. It’s been two months since Desolation Day, when an unknown male-specific virus ravaged the world, degenerating men into savage cannibals called “fleshers.” Ruben Lobos, is a short-tempered, genetically enhanced soldier, who’s clueless about his abilities since the pathogen struck at the same time of his experiment. He’s interestingly surrounded by a diverse cast of strong female characters in a dying world where women outlast men. That's the world of Under The Flesh. A gritty blast of sex, horror, sci-fi, and dabbling in various sub-themes like evolution, spirituality, and transhumanism. A zombie apocalypse comic that strays away from the traditional viral story by accentuating a premeditated reason behind the virus, as opposed to leaving the origin of the outbreak as a common question mark. To a degree, Under the Flesh is kinda Y: The Last Man meets The Walking Dead and Crossed. Under The Flesh was released as a weekly updated webcomic of free access in March 30th. In order to bring the first issue of their insane post-apocalyptic horror to print, the project is set to launch a Kickstarter campaign on Sunday, July 6.
My Thoughts:
I also got sent the first edition as an avid walking dead reader and pretty much anything else zombie orientated I was very happy to read and offer up my thoughts on this project.
With many things available through a kick starter these days it can often be hard to know what to back with your cash.

I can happily say after reading this that if you do it's money very well spent, it's got great characters coupled with some tense gritty moments. The comic starts off with explaining how the virus broke out and gets right into the gore right away showing decimation in all corners of the world.
The premise of the main character as a genetically enhanced soldier is a bit out of the norm as most comics try to stay to the human vs zombie aspect. This is only minor niggle on my part as Ruben who is pretty much a dick for the most part ends up being a great character, mostly as everything he does is for a damn good reason.
One the grossest things the virus does as it only infect males (most of which just eat women) is that it can make some of the zombies be reverted to base needs. Yes that's right sex, it was a bit of a shocker seeing a zombie raping a poor woman. This just adds a whole next level to the comic though, yes it's wrong on a lot of levels but also give the undead a seconds more gruesome reason to stalk the living.
The zombies aren't traditional shamblers though there seems to be different stages of them some are fast incredibly strong others are more brainless and slower. It's certainly a nice mix, all the women are strong characters and the taster that is issue one leave you craving more just like brains to a zombie. Please show your support so we can see this made into a full on series.

definite 5 out of 5 here

For more details and news you can check www.undertheflesh.com and Facebook www.facebook.com/undertheflesh.comic Twitter: @Under_TheFlesh

Ditch Day Massacre Review

Year: 2014
Age: TBC (probably an 18 or R)
Length: 77 Mins
Staring: Bill Oberst Jr., Katy Foley, Zach Silverman

Short Description:

Indie Actor extraordinaire Bill Oberst Jr stars in this film by production company Water Tree Media. Written by  Daniel P. Coughlin, Ryan Coughlin and directed by Joe Hendrick. An all star straight A student who has never been in trouble makes a the silly mistake of bunking off school. This leads to the creative and gruesome massacre of a bunch of teens at the hands of Bill's Murderous character. Gore and wounds galore in this teen slasher flick!

My Full Description:

The film starts with Katy Foley playing Jenny one year ago from the current time line she's leaving a party and gets into a car accident as she's drunk/drugged. Some people get badly hurt and Jenny is out cold.

We then have the superb acting skills of Bill Oberst playing the character Vick. He's clearly mentally unstable as we watch him seemingly getting prepared for the murdering to come.

We meet Jenny a year on unknowing of the full extent of her accident. Jenny's parents say their leaving and we quickly meet Mike her BF. The parents leave and the inevitable teen party ensues, Vick follows Jenny's parents plays whack-a-mole with their craniums after he's run them off the road. He doesn't however kill them.

We then meet the rest of the party goers typical horror fest fodder. A hot Goth girl named Trina, Two dunces Bill and Max then lastly the normal hotty Cathy. Vick certainly has a thing for apples. The kids do all the usual teeny stuff from drinking to playing in the pool with a little cheeky flashing.

Vick seems psyched and ready to go on his killing spree when he's side tracked by a nosy/horny neighbor He clearly doesn't enjoy her fornications over him as he continually eyes a varied bunch of weapons in the shape of tools. Torturing the poor woman before feeding one of her fingers to the fish (I laughed here because it's at that point she begged for her life and not before?). Done with his killing he kisses her corpse, drinks his coffee then leaves thanking her for her hospitality, truly bonkers. 

We then meet the rest of the police force, Mann (captain Dickhead) and an introduction to the rest of the axe fodder. Not long after the teen killings start when you guessed it they start having sex, after an impromptu game of spin the bottle. Both hotties get their kit off and this is especially pleasing to the eye as both have awesome features Trina awesome butt and Cathy amazing chest.

Unfortunately they mostly or maybe all go the way of the grave by the end of the film. Which as you know here on THN I never spoil, unless the film is so unbelievably bad I tell you so you don't have to watch it. All i'll leave you with is the last quarter of the film has a great twist and goes incredibly uphill story wise. 

My Breakdown:

This film has the typical teen slasher flick cliches from the start. Including the parents leaving the house to their child, the unsuspecting but not to us BF/GF hug jump scare. You'll know what i mean when you see it, then the inevitable lets throw a party. From the get go some of the other actors lines/acting is a little methodical like line, pause, answer but mostly only at the start and only at certain intervals. Aside from that this film flows with a good fast pace.

Some of the effects or scenes can be a little choppy or at points in at an angle you can't see but these are just money saving tricks of the trade and you generally get the gist, if not the whole gruesome picture of  it at some point of the scene. All the teen party stuff even the flashing and sex made me smile as it harkens back to the more nostalgic days of scream and *the rules*

The way Bill portrays Vicks character is great you can see proper madness in his eyes from when he's crazily chewing on an apple to sneering in disgust at Jenny and Mike. Though later you get why he was sneering the most at this point which was nice. The twist wasn't totally bewildering but was unexpected as you know i don't spoiler to much i'll leave it there.

The end of the film was good with a nice little twist and turn that you can unfortunately see coming a mile off from when the doubt sets in (you'll get that when you see it). The films occasional choppy acting/speech totally dissolves from around the 55 minute mark and it's just all strong plot and acting specifically from Mr Oberst from here on in. If anything from the whole film its great to watch it the whole thing to see it culminate in this last quarter. Which to me is superb.

At THN here you know I review the best and worst of indie scarefests and i am kind because i don't compare them to major blockbusters like most would do. I watch and appreciate them for the story, merits and actors/acting they bring to the table. This one is clearly a step above the usual stuff i watch weather it's because i'm a massive of Bill that possibly jades my view i don't know. But i enjoyed this and give it a very strong 4 out of 5 stars and a THN Recommendation 

Been a While, Now I'm Back With a Special

I am happy when I get some correspondence from my friend in the business Mr Bill Oberst Jr. My latest is from a company he's recently worked for I have been given the special privilege to view an early screener of a movie they have made.

The film is called Ditch Day Massacre. 

It's a teen slasher flick but I haven't watched a decent one for a long, long time Bill is one of my favorite indie actors and a brilliant one at that, he's playing the bad guy in this movie as he usually does. This always makes me laugh as in real life Mr Oberst is one of the most nicest down to earth actors i have ever had the pleasure to talk to.

I have supplied here A trailer of said movie:

Expect a review up soon of this chilling new film!