31 Days of Halloween 2018: Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.]  

 

Despite being an avid consumer of straight to video B movie dreck in the eighties, somehow I never saw SORORITY BABES IN THE SLIMEBALL BOWL-O-RAMA. Sometimes even for a movie maniac such as myself, a classic will slip through the cracks. For example, I didn’t see SCARFACE until the 2000s, if you can believe that. Anyway, I noticed a few friends of mine had been watching this one recently (it’s on Shudder as part of Joe Bob Briggs’ “The Last Drive-In”), and that proved to be the push I needed to finally check it out.

The plot is that sorority pledges Taffy (Brinke Stevens) and Lisa (Michelle Bauer) have to break into a bowling alley and steal the trophy as part of their initiation. This after sorority sister Babs (Robin Rochelle) has already given them a gratuitous spanking while the only other two sorority sisters – Frankie (Carla Baron) and Rhonda (Kathi O'Brecht) watch. Also watching are a trio of nerdy dudes – Calvin (Andras Jones), Keith (John Stewart Wildman), and Jimmie (Hal Havins).

31 Days of Halloween 2018: 'Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich' Pulls Some Strings

31 Days of Halloween 2018: Day 2

[Once again I'm going to attempt to do a horror(ish) movie review a day for the entire month of October. I've done this the last few years on The Cleveland Movie Blog. Most of the time I succeeded (usually with the help of a few other writers). Other times I didn't. We'll see if I can pull it off this year.] 

Because 12 PUPPET MASTER movies just wasn’t enough, the cheap and cheesy B movie franchise from Full Moon Productions has been rebooted with PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST RIECH. The puppets are still the same cool looking deadly toys, but they mythos of the series has undergone some major changes. There’s also a bigger budget this time around, some actors you might actually know, and considerably more blood and gore than one might expect.

Working from a script by S. Craig Zahler (BONE TOMAHAWK, BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99), co-directors Sonny Laguna and Tommy Wiklund turn in a slick but sloppily put together film. It’s the kind of movie that seems to skip ahead at times, as if pages of the script were torn out to keep things on schedule and under budget. Which is certainly not unheard of in the world of “B” movies, so that may have been the case.