I don’t have much to say about Sex Machine. It was a great low-budget noir-ish thriller with shades of amnesiac Frankenstein monsters thrown in for good measure. A bona fide Good Movie. The movie’s name comes from a mysterious tattoo that the main character has, and which is a plot point for Reasons. I suppose a mysterious tattoo of “Live Laugh Love” would have been harder to market as a horror noir title.
In 2006, it was a fantastic idea. Make a horror film as a web series of interlinked vignettes. Then when it was all done, they Frankenstein-whipstitched it into a movie, and released it on DVD. That is what I watched.
When Evil Calls revolves around a cell phone with a demon at the other end. Or maybe it’s a djinn, because it grants wishes in classic monkey’s paw style. But it wears evil clown makeup, so whatever it is, we can all agree that it’s evil.
The movie is set in a private high school. The wishes are what you would expect from high school kids. Some of the monkey’s paw reversals are clever, and some are obvious (“I wish I was hot”). The majority of the movie is bad things happening to “teenagers” (most of whom are obviously too old to be actual teenagers), rinse and repeat, and then the clown is defeated and dissolves at the end. So despite all the deaths along the way, it’s a happy ending.
I was asked at the show if there was a list of the nominated movies at the website (because they didn’t want to write them down). And there was not.
But now there is! Here is the full and complete list of nominees for CMP 5 (including at least two that are only showing up in the Remote Show):
Alien Armageddon
Bats: Human Harvest
Battle of Los Angeles
Battle of the Damned
Blood Surf
Elimination Game
Firefist of the Incredible Dragon
G-Saviour
Guardians
Ice Queen
Ice Soldiers
Jurassic City
Kickboxer From Hell
Life Blood
Mandroid
Mega-Shark vs Kolossus
Mercury Man
Minotaur
Ninja Death
Phantom Racer
Raging Sharks
Raiders of the Sacred Stone
Rogue Warrior: Robot Fighter
Star Slammer
T.A.C.T.I.C.A.L.
Termination Man
The Fall of the Louse of Usher
The Manitou
The Return of the Blind Dead
The Storm
The Tower
The Ultimate Ninja
Thunder Ninja Kids Golden Adventure
Vampires: The Turning
Volcano High
Voodoo Tailz
Warning From Space
Yeti: Giant of the 20th Century
Zombie Women of Satan
As promised/threatened, there will be a CMP 5 Remote Show, featuring primarily new material from the CMP 5 suite of movies. It will be 100% on Zoom, on Saturday, July 13, at 7 PM Eastern and again at 9 PM Eastern.