In theaters December 6th, 2024
A man helps set up his brother’s widow to spend the night alone with her child in the house while he goes out to test a new solution to a global epidemic of werewolves which happen under super moons which is that night. Soon, things take a turn.
Available from Scream Team Releasing here
A small Ohio town is seeing its homeless population decimated by an animal so two young women decide to do something about it.
Now available on VOD
I’m a sucker for a good Western. Low budget, a lack of star-power, none of that really bothers me, so long as it hits high on the ol’ Yeehawometer. Likewise, I’m a sucker for a good vampire pic, pun only slightly intended. Mix the two, though, and you usually wind up with more Cookie’s Camp Mush than a Texas T-bone. There have been some decent genre mashups over the years, though- take 2005’s The Burrowers as a fine example. So I went into 2024’s Unnatural with my breath held, just in case I was wading into undead horse-hockey.
BOOTLEG FILES 854: “Wolfman vs. Godzilla” (unfinished fan film).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube and Internet Archive.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: A right clearance issue.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
From a creative artist’s perspective, I could never understand the appeal of making fan films. I appreciate when teens and pre-teens create these cinematic tributes – there’s something very charming when the James Bond or Star Wars orbits are reimagined by an alternative universe of the under-18 crowd. But when adults spend a great deal of time and money in creating fan films, it usually leaves me cold.
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In 2020’s “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2,” heroine Addison spent a lot of her arc trying to figure out if she was perhaps the “Great Alpha” werewolf. When that was a bust, we were left on a cliffhanger as Addison was left pondering on her origins. And we were given a clue—from outer space. The idea of Addison perhaps being an alien makes a ton of sense considering the character guidelines the movies follow, and with the final movie in Disney’s “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S,” Disney works fast to seal up any and all lingering questions about Addison and Zed.
The follow up to the surprise 2018 hit musical is a superior movie in every way possible. Although there didn’t seem to be much that they could do with a follow up, “Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2” does a darn good job in amplifying what was so great about the first one; the writers are great at adding on to the whole mythos of the town of Seabrook offering even more characters, more potential for more monsters, and give cheerleader Addison her own arc. While in the original she sought to fit in with the zombies, now she’s looking for her own group, unsure of where she really belongs after her experiences with Zed and Zombietown.
One thing you can’t accuse Sung Kang’s horror comedy of being is boring. It might not re-invent the wheel in the realm of horror comedies, but it never is actually boring. Sung Kang manages to concoct what is basically a comedy about two best friends tested to their limits when one of the friends is wholly convinced that she might turn in to a werewolf very soon. Along the way there are so many hilarious incidents as well as events that seem to indicate director Kang was intent on throwing everything in their movie but the kitchen sink in its ninety minute run time.