Howdy there, Scream Freaks! Been awhile since our last blog, but when you come down with a bad case of booger lips, it’s best to lay yourself to rest and do nothin’ for awhile. But we’re fully rested now with a few more horror movie reviews under our belt and jumpin’ back in the saddle to prepare the way for Screaming Soup! Season 4.
If you haven’t forgotten, we wrapped up season 3 with a pretty big promise to bring you the battle horror/sci-fi fans have wanted for decades – Troma vs Full Moon! We’ll be reviewing over 30 of your favorite mutant meltdown movies against your top alien flicks, bring back a lot of familiar faces with the magic of animation, and will even feature the involvement of the wizard from the west, Charles Band! Yessir, we reached out to the Full Moon legend himself for an official blessing over this endeavor of ours, and he was very excited by what he saw in the demo we showed him. With everything starting to come together, this will no doubt be our biggest season yet!
If you wanna get a jumpstart on everything there is to know about Troma or Full Moon before then, I’d suggest watching most of Troma’s films on their Youtube channel, and you can get full access to Full Moon’s catalog of work from their movies to their Videozone clips at Full Moon Streaming.
Other than that, be sure to watch our epic Season 3 finale with our review of the Basket Case trilogy while having our final showdown with Buzzkill, catch up on all past Screaming Soup! Seasons, 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! Halloween is finally here, but it feels late to its own party after a party filled weekend of bobbing for grenades, black cat tosses, and mummy rap offs. The most exciting thing we saw was a drunk penguin threatening to kill party guests for a complimentary t-shirt. Long story short . . . he got one! Following such a crazy few days, maybe the best way to close out the holiday is simply opening a cold one, throw back some hard earned candy, tune in to a tried and true horror favorite with friends and loved ones, and watch the final flicker of the remaining jack’o lanterns die out.
Or you can pull on a different costume, hit up the same houses for more candy, crash a party, and keep your fangs crosses one of them slutty cat girls will spend one of their nine lives with ya. If that’s the case, be safe, don’t blow your nose in the wind, check under the bed, and for Craven’s sake, make sure that’s who you think it is under that mask!
Other than that, be sure to watch our epic Season 3 finale with our review of the Basket Case trilogy while having our final showdown with Buzzkill, shoot someone one of our Halloween Eeeh!-Cards, catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3, 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.
We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks! Be safe and Happy Halloween!
Howdy there, Scream Freaks! While we already had our Halloween blow-out with the duel of the afterlife, your spooky weekend is just beginning and sure to be full of mischievous fun guaranteed to haunt you the rest of your days. Cavity candies, slutty costumes, party prizes, ghoulish games . . . evil clowns. We’re sure you’ll have fun!
In the meantime, we’re gearing up for the weekend ourselves and moving fast to prep for Screaming Soup! Season 4 (premiering 1/20/17). We’re animating ’til our bones break and still in talks with key individuals for making sure Troma vs Full Moon is as epic as we can make it! But more about that later. For now, we’re poppin’ candy, double fistin’ a couple of cold ones, and chillin’ out to our favorite horror flicks and tunes while strategizing the best parties to go to the next few days.
We’re also happy to announce we’ll be attending our first convention next month, Big Fandom Greenville. We don’t have our dream booth built yet, so don’t get too excited, but we will be attending multiple panels, hosting discussions about various horror topics which include Screaming Soup! Looking forward to that and wrangling in several of the fine folk who make our show a success.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3 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.
We’ll see ya later, Scream Freaks! Be safe and happy early Halloween!
Howdy there, Scream Freaks, and a happy early Halloween to ya as we bring our larger than afterlife season to its epic conclusion with a 36 minute finale! As you know, Buzzkill’s makin’ the Howl-Inn Grub and Spirits ground zero for his trap of a Halloween party meant to enslave the Crosslands, and it’s up to your favorite horror host gang to stop him. Everyone returns for one last appearance as the slime hits the fan and all walks of creature witness an unholy horror host feud end in a big top showdown.
To compliment such a celebration, we picked an equally monstrous film series to review, the Basket Case trilogy! We were fortunate enough to find these movies years ago on VHS when a video store was closing, and boy were we entertained by what has to be one of the most underrated monsters next to Maniac Cop! If you haven’t seen them, the movies follow these conjoined twins who were separated against their wishes, and now the normal looking brother carries his human meatball freak of a sibling in a wicker basket, struggling to find their place in the world while attacking haters. It’s absolutely one to check out, and even more fun to review so watch it below!
As for the sneak preview of next season you see in this review, we’ll come back to that later . . .
Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-3 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! Hope your Halloween season’s off to a great start, and we can’t wait for you to join us for our epic Halloween finale next week, 10/20/16! Fun reviews, favorite characters return, and we reveal our plans for next season’s storyline that’s sure to get a lot of you falling out of your seat with excitement!
But focusing on the now, it’s time for another Tribute video and given we did a big one on Bruce “King of the B” Campbell last Halloween, we thought we’d turn to our favorite Queen of Scream this time, Linnea Quigley! Apocalyptic soldier, cemetery dancing punk, fitness instructor, nerd turned succubus, demonic cutie, chainsaw prancing hero, she’s played it all and continues to entertain us today with an ever growing list of credits. While most will always remember her for her iconic role as a naked zombie in Return of the Living Dead, our favorite Linnea role is still Spider from Sorority Babes at the Slime Bowl-O-Rama. She didn’t show any skin in that flick, but we always felt that was her coolest character who was tough, fun, and endearing. Anyway, check the video we put together below and bask in her talents!
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! Wow, this has been one exciting week as our show picks up steam, and the best holiday of the year rolls into its first full week. Our fan base is growing, we’re talking to some important people, and there’s about to be plenty of irons in the fire!
First off, we have to give a shout out to Madworld Haunted Attraction located in Piedmont, SC. We were invited to their early bird special recently and got an exclusive behind the scenes tour of their operation which did not fail to impress! Their place is built like a miniature theme park, first herding you through a haunted hotel and then spitting you out on a haunted trail that’s a half mile of asylums, swamps, farms, sewers, gas stations, and specialty rooms overrun by all manner of freaks and weirdos! And once it’s all over, you can hang in the picnic area near a bonfire watching videos projected above the snack shack like an old drive-in or to try your luck in one of their escape rooms fashioned after prisons and Egyptian tombs. Lots of fun, worth the deniro, and be sure to take a friend as a human shield!
We also want to give a special thank you to our friends at Bloodbath & Beyond who produced a special video this week spotlighting YouTube horror reviewers who they believe deserve more eyes. Lots of talent were mentioned, some familiar, some new, and we were very touched to be included with such fine folk in the horror community. We’re definitely checking out all the new channels this Halloween and thankful for the boost in our subscriptions.
Finally, we’ll hopefully have a new Tribute vid ready to go by 10/10/16 which will celebrate a popular Scream Queen we’ve been longtime fans of, and may even release a mini-preview of the Season 3 finale that same day. We’ve also been talking with some rather important people about Screaming Soup! Season 4 which is going to be fucking epic as you’ll see revealed in the season finale, 10/20/16. I wish I could say more, but I don’t want to give anything away too soon.
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! Today is one bonanza indeed! Not only are we on the edge of diving into the official Halloween season, but today is also the birthday of our favorite ghostly gal, Mandy! If you didn’t know that already, it’s probably because she and Scooby-Doo share the same birthday, so one tends to eclipse the other. (happy birthday, scoob.)
Yessir, today’s gonna be full of wicked wines, candle meltin’ cakes, and all manner of horrific surprises as we shower Mandy with loads of ghastly gifts. We learned our lesson last year when we upset her with nothin’ but a heap of kitchen do-dads for whippin’ us up some chow and stuck with only the fun stuff this birthday. She’ll hopefully be happier receiving R. L. Stine books and slasher movies this time around!
In other news, we’re looking forward to a lot of our favorite TV shows coming back next week like Supernatural, been loving the new Comet Channel we came across which is reminiscent of the Sci-fi Channel’s early days, and counting down to our season finale 10/20/16 which will be a 40-45 min super show with a review of a fantastic trilogy everyone should see!
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! 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! 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.
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