South Park Season 19

Wow, so this seasons/ Parker & Stoner upped the game, look at how great television is right now, hell cable tv is the biggest of them all, and cable has Rick & Morty which is changing animated series, so South Park decided to become a serial. It lampooned PC culture, gun culture, transgender life, the disconnect of society, the death of print, pretentious ideas all while not being too preachy or heavy handed. In my opinion the show has never been better, it is at all time time high!

Scream Queens

Scream Queens i went into not sure what to expect, a part of me hated that Ryan Murphy claimed he was creating a new genre "horror comedy" erm no. Plus fuck Glee, but American Horror Story while spotty had a good foot in the genre door, plus it was on network tv, though Fox gets away with alot, one good thing was it had alot of hotties in it, and the show wound up being....awesome. Was it a satire or a spoof? Maybe a lil of both, it walked a line, a line that got blurred quite a bit, i mean a killer in on the loose and enemies all decide to dance? I can dig it! The show turns the tropes on it's head. Every episode delivered the kills & the humor i wanted in the show, and it was hilarious as fuck and featured damn fine fx!

Creep

Found footage films, his is one of the better ones. should be a thing of the past, most are crap, Creep however is a pretty damn good and some what creepy(no pun intended) entry in the sub genre. Patrick Brice shows he can do multiple genre with this & the Overnight, 2 different films yet both that feel mumble core in a way. I did not love this flick but if you are waiting for a decent netflix & chill flick, here you go! Who knows maybe you can get you chiller to watch cooler shit after you both chill!

The Leftovers season 2

SO the first season of the Leftovers went by without a lot of fan fare it seemed, i loved it, it was weird and from Damon Lindelof, a man i admire that ran Lost, my favorite show of all time. The second season was AMAZING. This is the sunday night show to watch, not the Walking Dead. This season had several nods to Fight Club with having to harm ones self to rid of your imaginary friend, some Twins Peak esque portions of the town(the whole season felt inspired by it, the death realm was 100% Lynchian) and even a lil bit of Inception for good measure. The character depths and the dynamics with the Guilty Remnant were reminiscent of those with the Others on Lost, they walk a line, good? bad? who knows, plus Kevin's relationship with John is straight out of Lost, we shoot each other but we help each other! THe open ended final is pure brilliance! I hope it is back for season 3!

Krampus

So Krampus is Michael Dougherty's long awaited follow up to Trick R Treat. Trick R Treat is a film i waited along time for, by time it came out on dvd i had high expectations, and it became my favorite film of that year. Much like the wait for Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men follow up, Dougherty's Kramus i liked but was underwhelemed by. The humor was hit & miss, the film is thematic and looks awesome, the horror scenes outside are great and the showdowns in the house are well done but over all it just felt lack luster, which sucks to say, i wanted to love this film but only liked it.

Cooties

There is no question that zombies have over saturated the market, and this is coming from a die hard zombie fan.  Dawn of the Dead is on my top 5 favorites of all time, yet after the one two punch of Zombieland and the Walking Dead, zombies are everywhere, little kids discuss them, normies love them and the film industry is full of crap ass zombie flicks. Now there have been some awesome ones in recent years like the Battery, Detention of the Dead and Dead Snow 2, but then are some complete pieces of shit, but every once in a while a trailer comes along and you think, heh, this looks awesome, especially for a zombie movie. Cooties was that film, now is it as good as the above mentioned? No, i had fun with it but it is nothing i loved, i think the cast helped it alot, there are some great deliveries by Rainn Wilson, Leigh Whannell & Elijah Wood(Whannell steals the show) plus Allison Pill looks as cute as ever but there is not much memorable about it, with that said it is still a fun zombie flick!

Deathgasm

For years Metal & Horror have gone arm in arm, more so than almost any other musical genre, save maybe punk. While it is a stereotype that all horror fans are metal heads, quite a few of us are fans of the genre, i love old school classic metal, Black Sabbath is my second favorite band of all time, metal has dark themes and can kick your ass. There have been plenty of horror films to combine the two, but most recently is Deathgasm about a metal band that summons the dead, almost in an Evil Dead style way, only with dildos and vibrators. The gore is all over the place, the characters are likable and it is not cookie cutter like i thought it would be. I have to go back and praise the gore, holy hell i was not expecting it to be this awesome in the effects department. If you are a horror fan, chances are you are aware of this and will check it out, if you are a metal fan, most definitely check it out! This is the perfect flick to play at a midnight theatre, or the perfect film to play in the background at a bar while listening to some great music, or even an awesome party flick!