Howdy there, Scream Freaks! This summer’s truly flyin’ by our sunburnt mugs, but that’s okay, ’cause it means Halloween’s just around the corner! Still a ways off, we know, but we’ve been busting our tailbones to get things shaking around here in time for the most ass kicking shindig of the year.
We’ve already got production underway for Screaming Soup! Season 4 which is easily proving to be the biggest undertaking of our show, and might just blow the horror community up with all the excitement we hope it’ll generate. Don’t want to say too much more about that surprise yet, but all will be revealed in our Halloween episode 10/20/16. We’re also working on fixing our website’s background layout for those few fans experiencing issues, and we’re looking into setting up some donation links through Youtube and Patreon.
The reason we’re looking at receiving donations is because there are a lot of things we wanna see done with our show and characters but are either spread thin workwise or simply lack the revenue to see some things happen. We’ve got plenty of ideas for trading cards, comics, game apps, a convention booth for appearances, etc., but animation takes so much time it’s almost impossible to complete it all as quickly as we’d like to see it done. With donations, however, we can support other artists and commission a lot of that kind of work and get more Screaming Soup! merch in your hands and quickly. Just need to get that up and running, and see where it goes from there!
Heads up next week, because we’ll be posting our next entry in the Graphic Violence review series 8/10/16 and will be taking a look back at the Little Monsters movie and its 6 issue mini-series from Now Comics. Sure to be informative and fun all at the same time!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! What a busy and frustrating week it’s been. First off, our lead animator sprained their wrist connected to their artistic hand and had to lay off the creative stuff a few days. He tried pushing through the pain a day or 2 but ultimately gave in to some needed r & r. He’s back in the saddle and happily animating away now, but he was incredibly depressed not being able to work with our gang of cartoon monsters for most of last week.
To raise morale during his hiatus, we caught up with friends over the weekend, some who asked for all kinds of support. We helped a filmmaker round up a beer slinging audience at an improv show to be extras watching a prison execution scene for a short they’re shooting. Ate the most expensive bland food anyone’s ever put deniro down for at a pretentious hole in the wall shit bar to listen to a partner’s band play. And had to pass on the new Lights Out flick, because everyone wanted to watch the new Star Trek sequel. Star Trek Beyond was good, mind ya, but Lights Out’s getting’ a lot of praise, and we gotta see why!
So, interesting week overall, but we’re firing on all pistons again and prepping the next secondary vid that’ll be posted 8/10/16. We don’t wanna give away what that vid is just yet, but we will say it’ll be another Graphic Violence review!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Down a glass of raw protein and prepare to break a sweat, ’cause we’re going to the gym! Not to shred our bods mind ya, but to recruit the first folk on Frankenhooker’s list of the Crossland’s toughest umbres for helping take back the Howl-Inn from Buzzkill and his monster misfits. Yessir, we introduce a lot of new faces this episode with the arrival of Brainbasher, Roogaroo, and the mountains of might known as the Ticking Time Bombs who prove to be less than cooperative.
The Ticking Time Bombs did help inspire this month’s review at least, a nature gone wrong flick from the ’90s called Ticks. Starring Seth Green, Carlton from Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and Clint “Infested” Howard, this movie pits troubled campers against dopey dope farmers and giant ‘roid raging ticks they accidentally create. Solid teen performances and great special effects, you have to watch why this is easily one of our favorite bug movies below!
Also wanted to let you Scream Freaks know we swung by the theater this past weekend and checked out the new Ghostbusters that’s all but broken the internet. We came out the other side with surprisingly differing opinions and provide 2 different reviews. We have the flash fry review in our weekly R-Rated Reviews page, and provide a more in depth review by Mandy in a new blog HERE. Enjoy!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! It’s sure been one hell of a fourth with misfiring fireworks and American flag cakes churning our insides green. But by the end, most everyone came out with their limbs, eyebrows, and humility intact, and we all ended the stuffy night throwing back beers around the TV while watching the annual Jaws marathon. You know, we love that silly shark, but much like Jaws 4, it gets old after awhile.
That’s why this year we opted to expand our horror palate with a marathon of the Purge movies, given the newest installment just hit theaters in time to make us rethink our votes this election season. Some of us hadn’t seen any of the Purge films before, and it wasn’t because we refused to, but we simply didn’t make it a priority. Thanks to encouragement from those who gave this series the thumbs up, however, we finally sat our tailbones down and peeled our eyes to see what all the fuss was about.
Jumpin’ jack’o lanterns! We expected these films to be decent at best, but they were actually pretty damn good. For the clueless, the story is a future America has a new government in place that solves society’s problems by allowing Americans 1 night out of the year to purge their pent up angst and hostility in whatever fashion they choose, even if it’s murder. The first movie shows this purge event through the eyes of a rich family forced to defend themselves against purgers after a man they unexpectedly shelter, and the second is more from the poor’s perspective which we thought was the best of the trilogy. Purge: Anarchy is a balls to the wall adrenaline rollercoaster that’s like The Running Man meets Escape From New York with a Punisher wannabe playing hero to a group of passives he helps protect against all levels of violent crazies. It was always on the go, you never knew who was going to die or what crazy shit to expect. Highly impressed, we were more than willing to check out the next sequel, Purge: Election Year, on the big screen.
In this 3rd installment, the purge has been around for at least 20 years, and Senator Roan has had enough. Closing in to win the presidency, Roan will have the power to abolish the national holiday once and for all, but not if the new founding fathers can stop her. Taking advantage of the latest purge night, they hire some big guns and sick a white power army after her, all of who get their asses whipped by Roan’s bodyguard, Barnes, the Punisher wannabe from the last movie. The ambush forces them in the open and leaves them running through the underbelly of the nation’s capital, fighting tooth and nail to survive the night with the help of a deli-man’s crew and an underground purge resistance.
This sequel is a smart progression for the Purge series. We’ve seen how both ends of the social class celebrate and combat the annual “Halloween for adults,” and now we get more insight into the people in power behind the night itself. The main characters like Roan and Barnes are kinda static, with more minor characters like the purge rebels carrying the major decisive points of the film. There’s lots of action like bullets blowing through people’s heads, on screen beheadings, and girls getting run over, but we did kind of wish the gore could have been pushed a little more. We figure this might have been downplayed for an R rating or even to mirror protagonists’ viewpoints with the filmmakers refusing to glorify the violence which is sort of the point of the films. But the filmmakers still could have done a better job creating a sense of uneasiness in this sequel, leaving us afraid any of the characters could die next. Halfway through the movie, we felt pretty secure the main characters were probably going to make it to the end alright and lost a lot of that edge of our seat intensity we relished in Anarchy.
Overall, Purge: Election Year is an engaging film, maintaing the spirit of the first 2 films while raising the stakes and expanding the Purge universe, and is anything but boring and repetitive. To see how we rate it and the other Purge films, visit our R-Rated Reviews page!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Lot of sequels at the movies lately. You’ve got Independence Day: Resurgence, Finding Dori, TMNT: Out of the Shadows, Captain America: Civil War, and (what we went to check out) Conjuring 2. Fresh back from the theater, we thought we’d take some time to shoot the shit on this super-hyped scarefest that’s got everyone talking about heart attacks in the cineplex. There will be spoilers, so read with caution.
First off, Conjuring 2 was good, but not a “Wow!” for us. Mainly because it wasn’t much different from the first one. If you recall, the first movie was about the Warrens, a famous paranormal tag-team couple from the ’70s, helping free a young girl from the possessive grips of an evil spirit. In the sequel, the Warrens have sworn off anymore investigations after their experience in the Amityville house but jump back in the saddle when they hear a girl in London is bullied non-stop by the ghost of old man Wilkins. So, once again we’re watching them save a kid being haunted by an evil force with a lot of the same bells and whistles trying to scare us from the last movie. Possessions, creepy sounds, and shit flying everywhere.
Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga are perfectly cast as the Warrens in these movies. They’re solid performers whose relationship is nothing short of convincing and successfully give you horror heroes worth rooting for. Their chemistry on screen is only boosted by director James Wan’s eye for slick cinematography, a script rich in character, and the perfect rhythm of jump scares the film seems edited to.
Our only beef with this whole thing was the tension being about as thin as a haunted house attraction around Halloween. Based on what happened in the first Conjuring, our gang had already bet nobody was going to die, and it would be more about scare than terror which is exactly what happened. It’s hard to feel worried for anyone when you know it’s all going to end in sunshine and rainbows for everybody at the end.
Even the ghosts were a little disappointing, but it’s not for lack of effort. Old man Wilkin’s ghost was filmed in a very effective way, but didn’t feel like it was pushed enough or in the right ways. Most the time he’s creeping around saying “Boo!,” but when the filmmakers push the envelope and seemingly make him more like a Ghostbusters villain as the morphing Crooked Man who taunts children with nursery rhymes, it was too much distracting CGI that had us thinking of Tim Burton characters from Alice in Wonderland.
There is a second supernatural threat that turns out to be a demon disguised as an evil nun that’s actually manipulating the haunting for its benefit, but this too was good and bad. The filmmakers elevate the sequel by giving us a totally unexpected turn of events when we learn this demon is using old man Wilkin’s ghost as a smokescreen so it could possess the girl, but that twist ends as soon as it starts without any explanation, leaving us hanging with what felt like some bigger plot out of a season of Supernatural. Why did the demon go to such complex lengths to get the girl? Was the demon originally from the Amityville house and attach itself to Lorraine Warren? Why did it bother telling Lorraine its name without being compelled, ultimately handing her its #1 weakness? We have so many questions that aren’t from criticism but interest in something we found to be the most interesting part of the movie they barely went into.
All in all, this isn’t a movie we’re running to tell all our friends to hurry and see, and we definitely don’t think it lives up to all the hype on TV or in the reviews. However, it was well made, and the acting was superb which does rate it higher than your average fright pic. If they had made us feel like anyone could possibly die at anytime and put more thought into the demonic end of this story, it could have been something real special. But we rate it 4/5!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Grab an extra dish, ’cause yer gettin’ served up not 1 but 2 reviews of The Stuff! Wipe that confused look off yer face, we ain’t backtracking our own review for a 2nd go ’round. No, sir. We’ve been in talks with the fine folks over at Bloodbath & Beyond, and before you know it, one thing led to another and Wooowee! We got ourselves a bona fide crossover of unprecedented mayhem!
Being the web’s first and only animated horror hosts means a lot of firsts, and this is one of them. Never before have live action horror hosts mixed with fully animated ones, and the result is laugh out loud epic. So epic, this crossover could only be done as a 2-parter with both sets of hosts visiting each other’s sets. Both parts are below, and we would suggest starting with the Screaming Soup! half as part 1, so you get a full understandin’ of what’s happenin’ before switching over to BBB’s half of the crossover.
We give a joyful YEEEHAAAAW! to Bloodbath & Beyond for decidin’ to take this steer by the horns and help make a memorable video we’re sure ya’ll will enjoy. We encourage you to check out more of their vids on their Youtube channel HERE, but come back to us for more helpings of Screaming Soup!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! We can already tell ya, this is going to be a fun month for Screaming Soup! Not only are we going to bring you our favorite review of Season 3 on 6/20/16, but we’re also playing host to several macabre guests we’ve asked to join us for some crossover antics!
We don’t want to spoil the surprise for who these guests are just yet, but the majority of them are other popular horror movie reviewers you more than likely heard of, and they’ll be making cameos in the next episode which takes our gang to the Tailhouse — the Crosslands #1 stripjoint! We push the animation further, give ya plenty of cartoon babes to oogle, review one of the best B-movies of all time, and share the screen with some of the hottest talents in the business. It’s going to be unforgettable.
In the meantime, we are ready to tell you we’ve been hard at work on a crossover special with another team of superstars . . . Bloodbath & Beyond! Yessir, we’ve been talking a lot with these guys lately, and we both came to the obvious conclusion we needed to do a crossover. Live action meets animation, its a true clash of worlds as we step outside our norms, attempting something we’ve never done before. I won’t say how we crossover or what we’re going to review, but it’ll be like a 2-parter with fans needing to watch vids on both our Youtube channels to get the full story. We’re aiming to release that by Friday, 6/10/16.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! It’s not always easy to think of stuff to post in this blog every week, but we happen to be inspired by something one of you said to us recently and wanted to share our thoughts on it. A loyal Scream Freak saw the latest Screaming Soup! episode, told us how much they enjoyed it, but then expressed some frustration that took us by surprise.
In a nutshell, they were baffled at how little of a following we have so far, and are even more perplexed at the low number of views our videos have for something they think is such great quality.
We of course responded to the comment, but wanted to expand on our feelings a little more in the blog here. First and foremost we make Screaming Soup! for fun as artists who are compelled to create, and channel that energy through our love for all things horror and animation. We’ve essentially taken everything we’ve ever enjoyed from comics to toys and videogames and brought all that together in what we think is a cool concept for an entertaining show we regularly invite others to enjoy with us.
Now, most everybody wants to make a living doing what they love, and we’re no different. We dream of the day our labor of love could hit big and elevate us somehow from living paycheck to paycheck to a means of supporting our families comfortably. We want to see Screaming Soup! popular enough to be the next Mystery Science Theater 3000 or Monstervision for the 21st century, achieving a milestone as the first fully animated horror host (that we’re aware of) in history. We’d love to have a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles explosion of success and launch a Screaming Soup! brand with Deadwest action figures, Billy plushies, TPMummy Halloween costumes, etc. Of course all that’s heavily dependent on a demanding fan base, and we’re doing our best to get the word out about our show to as many horror fans as we can on a daily basis through Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Channel Awesome, and Youtube crossovers.
But until that boom of life altering success happens, we’re just ambitious artists happy to be making wild, gross, and x-rated horror toons while shooting the shit about movies, and are deeply grateful for the fans we have gained so far who believe in our show and characters as much as we do. Thank you. So, keep your fangs crossed, dream big, but in the meantime . . . have fun!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Lock your doors and turn the lights off, ’cause it’s time for an all new episode of Screaming Soup! Yessir, we’ve officially stepped out of the Howl-Inn Grub & Spirits and hit the open road of the Crosslands where its truly highways or dieways. Clues are given for future storylines, we have the most horror icon cameos on the show to date, and we finally get a lead for how to kick Buzzkill out of the picture for good.
This time around, we review a unique little film called Monster Man that’s all about a monster killing people with a monster truck. ’bout time! 2 buds (who we call dumb and dumber light) race to a wedding to confess their love for a slut, but get stopped by bangin’ hitchhikers, mutilated hicks, septic shakes, and Yoda sexcapades. As funny as it is scary, you gotta skip down and watch this review NOW!
A special note about this episode that’s also a spoiler (you’ve been warned!), we just wanted to point out we animate our shows a year in advance for scheduling reasons, and this was produced well before Wes Craven passed away last year. So, if you maybe get a little confused by Wes’ appearance or anything he says, that’s why. It was amazing how so many unexpected emotions came over us here at Screaming Soup! when we heard of his passing, proving just how much of an impression he left on our lives for a guy we never had the pleasure to meet. We’ll always miss Wes and treasure his amazing work he shared with us over the years.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Time to peel your eyelids back and take in the unholy glory that is Screaming Soup! as we hurl up the next exciting episode continuing the Buzzkill’s Revenge saga. Yessir, this episode’s packed with mecha-devil bull rides, lover’s spat, vision quests, drunken rage, Graboids, frogs, and worms! All for your squeamish pleasure . . .
This time ’round, we’re reviewing a double feature of 2 nature gone bad flicks from the ’70s, Frogs (starring Sam “Dodge Ram” Elliot) and Squirm. We can’t remember what exactly motivated us to review these 2 lackluster films to begin with, but each certainly offers up its own form of B-grade entertainment for us to riff on. Or should we say for Billy and Tequila Worm to riff on! That’s right, these 2 Screaming Soup! alum get their 15 seconds of fame as guest hosts filling in, and we think they did a pretty awesome job at it! Just watch the new episode below and see fer yourself!
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest Season 3 episodes, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, read recent reviews for the newer horror films we’re watching in our R-Rated Reviews blog, and help us get the word out about the web’s #1 animated horror host show! Please use our social buttons in the upper right corner of the site and follow our tweets, subscribe to our Youtube channel, like our Facebook, watch and share all our vids, and keep that fan mail coming.
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