Howdy there, Scream Freaks! You know, being a horror host ain’t the easiest thing in a relationship. Tends to lead to a lot of arguments regardin’ horror entertainment, especially when your soul mate’s a kindred horror fan themselves. Mandy and I killed some time watching the new Cloverfield movie over the weekend, and came out fightin’ over whether or not it was a good movie. Despite falling asleep a time or 2, she declares it a bonafide good time at the movies. Me on the other hand . . .
Personally, I think the biggest mistake was the movie slapping the Cloverfield name on it. Immediately, you’re picturing all the giant alien action from the motion sickness picture of 2008, and that’s all you can think about and wait for. This was an unfortunate disservice to John Goodman and Mary Elizabeth Winstead whose acting was phenomenal. Goodman scares us as a doomsday nut who drags Winstead into his underground bunker for safety when it looks like the apocalypse has arrived, and keeps her there for fear of what’s happening outside. Winstead then struggles with whether or not to believe Goodman’s crazy claims since she was knocked out when everything supposedly went down, and if she should plot an escape from her savior/captor. Sounds pretty intense, right?
But all this wonderful tension and suspense is undercut by the fact the movie has Cloverfield in the title, so you already figure there are aliens attacking outside and just wait for Winstead to catch up to what you already know. Which doesn’t happen until the last 10-15 minutes of the movie. That’s right, aliens don’t zip in until the final reel, and would have been a bigger payoff if we didn’t know what to expect with a different title. If sticking with the title was so important, I think I would have given fans more of what they expected, and had aliens try to get in the bunker at the top of the hour, and make it more Winstead fighting Goodman and aliens at the same time. But like I always tell Mandy when she gets defensive, “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone’s got one, and they all stink!” And I’m always pointing out I like killer tomato movies, so I’m not the best one to argue good movies with.
Despite all my critiques of the film, however, Goodman plays a great villain you’d never want to run into, and Winstead is one kick-ass heroine who has to be the fastest think-on-your-feet last girl I’ve seen since You’re Next! It’s funny how much of a difference a title alone made for how much I enjoyed the film.
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! Sorry for not checking in last week, but we’ve been busier than an oil boy at a Hawaiian Tropics competition. Despite our hardships, however, we don’t believe in excuses around here. We know you want results. You want R-Rated Reviews. You want Sequential Slime updates. You want this week’s Howl’n Hottie. You want NEW videos commentin’ on all yer favorite horror movies just so you can tell your fellow gore geeks, “See! He agrees with me!”
Well this week we’re tossing one of our secondary videos your way with a new Graphic Violence review. Child’s Play comics have been popping up every now and again under the radar for the last couple of decades, and it’s almost a shame. Besides movie adaptations, the majority of these comics were new adventures for the little psycho ginger with fresh kill counts, plot developments, and crossovers. I could tell ya more, but then why did I make the video? Just click it below and decide for yourself if my opinion is worth checking out some old comics that sometimes weren’t worthy of the name Chucky!
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! Another week has passed, and we’re still firing on all pistons over here. We’re hustling our asses off to get production started on Screaming Soup! Season 4, taking some art jobs on the side, and working on our secondary vids for the site but did manage to watch some good monster flicks this past week. The one film on everyone’s lips we couldn’t ignore was the period piece about a family of pilgrims protecting their farm from an evil hag in the woods, The Witch.
Much like It Follows last year, this is the over-hyped game changing horror film that’s got every critic under its spell, not to mention 2 thumbs up from the satanic church! I won’t ruin anything for you, but I will say this film isn’t the full course meal of horror I expected. It’s an incredibly acted, superbly shot film that truly captures an authentically creepy look and feel of how shitty it was to live in the 17th century, but it was more tease than in your face fright I prefer to digest.
Focusing more on the breakdown of the family’s bond with games of “Tag, you’re a witch,” there’s very little confrontation between them and the actual villain they seldom acknowledge. This 93 minute ruin-my-Lifetime drama only offers fleeting seconds of horrific visuals I was really looking forward to; 2 scary hag shots , an uncomfortable death, one cool witch trap, a few seconds of what the fuck, a barn full of slaughtered farm animals, an uplifting ending that’s neat at best, and Black Phillip, the most amazing goat on screen next to Billy, who has the most effective scene in the whole shebang.
Sounds pretty negative, I know, but it’s a solid 3/5 film that’s worth a watch. I just wasn’t that pulled into the story, and it didn’t have enough crazy shit in it or family vs monster action for my taste. Really made me want to go back and re-watch Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. I’d recommend this flick to fans of The Shining,The Crucible, and ugly old women who think they can’t get work as actresses, but what do I know? I like killer tomato movies.
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! You’ve been waiting impatiently, threatening bodily harm with bathroom strikes, and begging me like ADD spastic kids with short term memory loss, but it’s finally here! The all spanking new episode of Screaming Soup! brought to you by your favorite animated horror host of the interweb.
This episode, we bring you one of the weirdest, craziest films ever seared into celluloid. The first time we ever heard of this film, we immediately made it our afterlife’s mission to obtain a copy of what was sure to be awesomely bad, charmingly comedic, and a new Thanksgiving tradition.
We set our hopes too high.
This film we’re speaking of is Blood Freak, and it’s a 70’s film about a mutant turkey man killing and drinking the blood of drugged out hippies. Sounds cool, right? But so many things go wrong that just flush it right down the shitter of bad cinema, and we’re all too eager to tell you how. Just watch the vid below and find out!
You’ll also see Buzzkill is still around with his monster misfits holding the best table in the Howl-Inn hostage, instigating one of the biggest bar brawls since our Slime City review! Full animated action, retro arcade machines, and new characters . . . we’re confident this next entry in the Buzzkill’s Revenge saga will not disappoint!
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! So, I think there’s 2 kinds of horror fans in this world. Those who are fans of Godzilla and those who are die-hard fanatics of Godzilla. For instance, if you were the average horror lover who went to see America’s take on the G-man in 1998, you probably walked out of the theater thinking you got your buck’s worth of man vs monster runamuck entertainment. If you were a super fan of Godzilla, you probably tore the theater apart before running out and warning people away from a false god’s promises.
I personally like the ’98 movie, but guess what . . . I like killer tomato movies, so you know you have to take what I say with a spoonful of ketchup! Was it the greatest movie ever? Could my judgment be clouded by fond memories I have of other things happening at about that time? Am I even talking about the right film? No, sure, and most definitely. I like Godzilla, but I couldn’t name every movie or villain blindfolded, meaning I’m not one of the diehards. But as a stand alone film without comparing it to its lineage, I thought the US version was a solid 3/5 for sure.
It had a mega monster clawing through the Big Apple, a killer soundtrack I rank in my top 5, and spun a pretty cool cartoon series that is sure to impress even the harshest Godzilla critics. That’s right, this box-office bomb managed to spawn an animated series before its demise at the hands of the fans and critics, and picks the story right up with Matthew Broderick’s character discovering one surviving baby of Zilla’s, who he takes under his wing to battle every critter the size of a building. Great art, strong characters, and plenty of monster bashing, watch our newest entry in our Re-Animated Review series below, and give the show a chance.
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! Sorry we missed last week’s blog, but things just get caught up in a whirlwind of feverish activity sometimes, and we just plow through to the next week. Which might actually be for the best this time, because we have way more things to report this week!
First off, we’ve got an all new Re-Animated Review coming next week on 2/10/16 that we’re excited about. The only clue we’ll give ya is it’s a cartoon linked to a BIG movie flop from the 90’s. We’ve also been sending invitations to some popular web personalities to be special guests in upcoming Screaming Soup! Season 3 episodes. And possibly the more exciting update for the week, we have all new blogs!
Why is that big news? Everyone from little emo girls to the snoodiest film buff has blogs, so what makes these soooo special?! Well, for starters, its more reviews of all things horror from us to you! We watch horror movies all the time, but can only animate so fast which is why each of our seasons are a mere 10 episodes. We typically focus on lesser known films we think deserve attention, but there’s so many newer films we’d love to share our 2 cents about. This new blog, R-Rated Reviews, will allow us to do just that. Sure, it ain’t as exciting as video, but it quickly gives you our candid thoughts on a film, complete with a 1-5 rating. In the same vein, we also created Sequential Slime, a comic book blog, informing you of what horror comics are on the shelves right now and which are worth reading. You can expect regular updates on Army of Darkness/Evil Dead, Big Trouble in Little China, and Puppet Master in that one.
So, make it a weekly ritual to check these blogs out, let us know what you think, and see you nex week when we reveal the newest monster toon review.
Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest episode, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, 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 the dawn of an all new season, and we’re kicking it off with one of the most disappointing finds we’ve ever had the misfortune of stumbling across, Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars! Putrid polecats, this is one stinker that’s really overlooked when horror fans debate the worst of the worst out there, and we’re happy to bring it to everyone’s attention as something that’s so bad it’s awful! We’re still at a loss why a national hero like Drive-In critic Joe Bob Briggs gave it such high praise with 3/4 stars, but maybe he can tell us one day.
You’ll also notice we got ourselves a story arc happening now with your favorite animated horror host finding himself without his favorite table, and it’s gonna take all season for him to fight for it back from Buzzkill and his monster misfits you may recognize from Robot Monster, It! Conquered the World, and From Hell it Came. As the season progresses, you’ll be shown new corners of the Howl-Inn Grub and Spirits, and even get to see what’s out in the interdimensional Crosslands as the stakes get higher and Deadwest‘s troubles get worse. It’s going to be a blast of a year, and it all starts with Oversexed Rugsuckers From Mars below!
Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 after watching the latest episode, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, 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! Oh, the excitement is just building for the premier of our 3rd season 1/20/15, and we can’t stand it! But until then, just pull a bag over your head to ease the anxiety and enjoy a warm-up vid we call, Doggone Horror.
For years, we watched horror movies with no problem accepting the rule that anyone could die at anytime. Old people, babies, the handicap, and especially animals. Animals always seem to be horror’s warm-up act (normally beating the black guy as first to get axed), but it never phased us until our girlfriends started making a fuss about it. Now, we all know it’s a movie and nothing’s real, but the ladies still wanna flip tables whenever a critter is even hinted at being harmed on screen. This situation has only 3 courses of action. Empathize with their sensitive nature and change out the movie you’ve been dying to see, kick the gal out of the room so you can be scared in peace, or dump’em till they learn their lesson and come weeping back to you. Well, asking them to leave is a fair compromise of the 2 extremes, so we tend to go that route. But it’s times like these that inspired this Screaming Soup! Presents vid which serves 2 purposes. To educate horror fans of some notable hounds of the genre, and to warn others of some flicks they may not wanna show their in-the-closet PETA recruit who can watch a toddler get skewered by cannibals but never a dog getting tossed in shark infested waters.
So, without anymore of an introduction, watch our newest vid below and have fun learning about some movies you maybe didn’t know existed while avoiding a date night gone wrong the next time you pick the movie. And for those interested, we’ve also been made aware of a great site you can check for an animal death count in a movie called doesthedogdie.com. Checked it out ourselves, and its pretty helpful and allows you to add updates to any movies you saw they haven’t accounted for yet.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 before the premier of Season 3 1/20/16, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, watch out for a new Screaming Soup! Presents video 1/10/16, 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! Man oh man, it’s not easy being the web’s #1 animated horror host site, and this week is no exception. We’re working hard on numerous projects around the clock, losing who knows how many hours of sleep, ensuring you some of the best material in horror entertainment you’ll ever see. We’re putting the final touches on Season 3, about to start animating Season 4 for next year’s release, putting pen to paper for planning Season 5, and editing together all new tribute videos and reviews of horror comics and cartoons. Sounds like a lot, right? That’s because it is!
But we’re not bitching. Quite the opposite. We’re actually having a blast, because we love mixing our 2 favorite things; horror movies and making art. Makes it all worth getting out of bed, you know? The only thing better than that is when we get to share our creations with you Scream Freaks, and find out a lot of you have the same thoughts and feelings about things in horror that we do. It’s always a treat whenever we hear from you on Twitter and Facebook, so keep hitting us up whenever you have a question about the show or just anything you want to get off your chest about horror in general.
Other than that, be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 before the premier of Season 3 1/20/16, check out this week’s Howl’n Hottie, watch out for a new Screaming Soup! Presents video 1/10/16, 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, and Merry Christmas! Yessir, Christmas is here and none too soon. We wish we could say this year flew on by, but it really didn’t! We were too busy writing, animating, drawing, editing, reviewing, and watching scary movies – all for your animated horror host entertainment! But luckily, we’re working in a mixed genre we love and have nothing but fun doing it!
My gift to you loyal and rambunctious Scream Freaks is below. Your first sneak peek at Screaming Soup! Season 3, and its as good as it looks if not better. This season we’re introducing a handful of new characters, bringing in more parodies of movie monsters, expanding the Crosslands universe with 3 new locations, and reviewing some movies we think you’ll enjoy. We can’t wait to share it with all of you beginning 1/20/16! But in the meantime, enjoy the promo.
We wish all of you a safe and quiet Christmas, and cross our fingers none of you will open fire when you don’t get the gifts you wanted. Remember to fan the flames to keep Krampus away, and that Elf on a Shelf is just a cover story for a race of mischievous peeping toms. Now, if you’ll excuse us, we’re going to grab a seat around the TV for our annual Christmas viewing of Silent Night, Deadly Night.
Oh, yeah, almost forgot! Be sure to catch up on Screaming Soup! Seasons 1-2 before the premier of Season 3 1/20/16, 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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