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12A
Our movie opens up during a feudal war in some unidentified era of Japanese history, where in the Emperor is trying to put down a small but growing army of rebelling houses. One night the sky fills with St. Elmo's fire, and a burning meteor falls from the sky, crashing in the fields near the Royal Castle. When the meteor is recovered by the royal military it was discovered to be some sort of man made satellite from the future (which was intended for extraterrestrials to find), and it was found to contain much of the information of mankind's history and achievements. Using this knowledge, the emperor's army made machine guns and quickly disposed of the rebel factions, seeming to return the land to peace.
Soon more discoveries were being pulled from the satellite, and the empire seemed to be thriving from the advances, but before you can say “a Yank in king Arthur's court” things began to fall apart. With the increasing rise in technology of warfare as well as new problems of resource depletion and pollution, soon small house squabbles turn into robotic nightmares of laser and radiation, ending with the detonation of an Omega bomb in Hiroshima, which destroys the world.
Moment of Madness: Around the time things start to fall apart, the royal scribes translate how to make the stronger forms of opiate. The emperor (young during the revolutions, but now middle-aged) soon becomes hopelessly addicted to horse.
Bullshit or Reel? |
Bullshit or Reel: Bullshit, though it is very close to the Mark Twain story mentioned in the review. Of all the fake movies I've made up thus far, I think this one is the one I'd most like to see (now if only it had an Aciditar |
12B
If movies have taught us anything, it's that science is wrong and that we should never strive to expand the horizons of our limited knowledge.
After creating a device that bridges the gap between the physical world and an overlapping one we cannot normally perceive, a frantic scientist is institutionalized in connection to the disappearance of his partner's head. A determined psychologist believes he's not crazy, and after giving him a cat scan discovers that his pineal gland has mutated. She believes that if he can re-activate his device, that she can not only prove his innocence in the murder case of his partner, but also identify some causes of schizophrenia.
So the two of them and a police officer go to the scientist's old townhouse and re-start the machine, revealing the strange flesh-eating sea monsters that exist in the other world, as well as the scientist's partner, who has turned into a bizarre shape-shifting blob with sado-masochistic tendencies. The three are able to turn off the machine in time, but soon their brains begin to change and they either become addicted to the machine and bondage or brain eating freaks with a brain tentacle protruding from their forehead. A lot of creepy shenanigans and bizarre extra-planar beings abound in this fun little romp. Word of advice to the un-eniciated: extra-planer beings have eyes like Spielberg T-rex's, so they can't see you if you don't move… to bad if you see these freakish things you'll be too busy violently pissing yourself to maintain stillness.
Moment of madness: if you're ever attacked by a man who's being controlled by an aberrant bit of brain that's sticking out of his skull, the best thing to do is bite it off. You'd think it would hurt him, but you'd be wrong.
Bullshit or Reel? |
Bullshit or Reel: Reel, this fun flick is “From Beyond” by Stewart Gordon, and is based loosely off of the H.P. Lovecraft story by the same name. Gordan has also made adaptations of other Lovecraft tales, including “Re-animator,” “Dagon,” and “Shadow over Innsmouth.” Another interesting piece of trivia about this movie is that the cop was played by the same actor who played the one of the two main SWAT officers characters from the original “Dawn of the Dead.”
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