Mrparka's Video Reviews for the Week of August 5th + Contest and Brandon Salkil Interview

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Jump around watch the parts you want to. 

Beyond the Darkness Blu-Ray Review - 0:21
Devil's Domain Blu-Ray Review - 7:28
I Am Hero Blu-Ray Review - 12:35
Time Bandits Blu-Ray Review - 16:28
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Vudu Review - 19:27
Soldier Blue Vudu Review - 25:54
Shout Out - 31:46
Contest Winner - 32:23
New Contest - 32:58
Q&A - 34:30
Update - 37:48
Brandon Salkil Interview - 40:12

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Beyond the Darkness (Severin Films) 

                                   Written Review by MrParka 
            ​Severin films brings the grotesque Euro shocker "Beyond the Darkness" to Blu-ray.  “Beyond the Darkness” is loaded with features from previous releases and presented in the best possible quality.
    Young millionaire Frank's beautiful girlfriend, Anna dies of a strange illness. Unable to let go, Frank steals Anna’s body and preserves her using his taxidermy skills. Frank begins to pick up young girls to fulfill his sexual urges and attempts to incorporate the corpse of his past lover in the mix. This morbid obsession starts a chain of murders and mayhem. Franks's housekeeper (Franca Stoppi) who is part sexual partner and mother figure to Frank helps dispose of the corpses. This set up is shaky but working, until Franca demands Frank removes the corpse from the premises. Frank’s refusal of Franca’s demand and the arrival of Anna’s twin sister lead to a bloody climax between the duo.
                “Beyond the Darkness” is without a doubt one of the most disgusting Italian horror films ever made. Not only is the gore repulsive but the subject matter, tone, and themes are as well. During a scene where Frank brings home an injured jogger for sex reveals this most. While the pair is beginning to start their sexual encounter Frank reaches over to unveil the corpse he has preserved lying in the nearby bed, unknowingly to the horror of his soon to be victim. The way Frank stumbles into murder, perversion, and obsessions recalls the case of Ed Gein. If you were to switch Gein’s fascination from mother to lover, in other words their inability to let go and obsession with death has pushed them to commit murder. This comparison adds a layer of realism to the usually cheesy nature of Italian horror films of this time and budget. Franca Stoppi is such a despicable character it’s hard to decide who’s the bigger monster between her and Frank. Although Frank is doing the killing, Stoppi helps him cover up his crimes and keeps him at bay with sexual motherly comfort. Her comforting is very incestuous feeling and is rather disturbing especially when she exposes her breast to him and he suckles on it like a child.  In a truly gag inducing moment Franca taunts Frank by eating her dinner in such a sloppy manner moments earlier the two discarded remnants of a freshly melted victim by burying them in a pit filled with liquefied animal remains. The scene cuts back and forth between the stew and the bubbling pit of gore, gagging not only Frank but anyone brave enough to watch. Among the violence and gore a truly graphic autopsy scene is included where real guts and pig skin is used. A fair share of nudity is also sported, both full front from male and female, most of which lingers in sleazy fashion. On the more artistic side is some well-done camera work.  A memorable one shot that follows the suspicious funeral director looking for the missing corpse of Anna is one of the highlights.  To round out the film is a memorable score by Goblin. The main theme will surely be known to any fans of the band and enjoyed by those who aren’t familiar. The main theme is big and creepy with lively energy. On the other hand the track reserved for Frank and his lover is fairly heartfelt and touching and helps add the tiniest bit of sympathy for Frank. “Beyond the Darkness” is one of the most demented stories of lost love around. It’s filled with plenty of repellent moments of violence and gore and enough nudity to qualify as a softcore film; it may not be pretty but it’s effective.
                Severin has ported over the previous features including the amazing Joe D'Amato: The Horror Experience which features a long interview with the director and his collaborators spliced with footage from his most memorable films. This featurette is wonderful and Aristide Massaccesiaka aka Joe D’mato doesn’t hold back. Also included are an interview with Franca Stoppi and two new featurettes including an interview with Cinzia Monreale and a comparison between the locations then and now.  For good measure Severin has tossed in a CD of the soundtrack so you can enjoy the sounds of Goblin anywhere.  Another nice release from Severin as always. 

Product Description:
​ It has been denounced as "revolting" (SplatterDay.com), "stomach-churning" (Classic-Horror.com) and "shower-prompting" (Fandor), while simultaneously acclaimed as "bone-chilling" (Chas Balun), "truly classic" (The Spinning Image) and "a must-see" (Horror.com). Now experience "D'Amato's masterpiece" (BloodyDisgusting.com) like you've never seen or heard it before: CinzIa Monreale (THE BEYOND) and Franca Stoppi (THE OTHER HELL) star in this psycho sickie - set to a pounding score by Goblin. 

Severin is proud to present this sleaze-fest also known as BURIED ALIVE and BUIO OMEGA from director Joe D'Amato (ANTHROPOPHAGUS), restored and packed with exclusive new Special Features.

Special Features:

- Joe D'Amato: The Horror Experience
- The Omega Woman: Interview With Actress Franca Stoppi (17 Minutes)
- Goblin Reborn Perform Buio Omega Live 2016
- Locations Revisited
- Sick Love - An Interview With Actress Cinzia Monreale
- Trailer
- CD Soundtrack Blu-ray exclusive)

Buy Blu-Ray - https://grindhousevideo.com/products/beyond-the-darkness-blu-raycd
Buy DVD - https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Darkness-Kieran-Canter/dp/B071GW3JHZ/

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Devil's Domain 

Product Description: ​Devil's Domain tells the story of LISA POMSON, a troubled, social media obsessed teen, conflicted with her sexuality and her parents misunderstanding of her. When Lisa gets secretly filmed binging, purging, and masterbating the video goes viral and she suffers extreme cyber-bullying. Suicidal, and on the brink of insanity, a beautiful, mysterious stranger (the Devil) strikes up an online relationship with her. They grow close and meet and the stranger offers to help in exchange for a favor. The devil will rid her of the bullies and give Lisa fame and fortune in exchange for a baby. Lisa agrees and as the bullies die one by one, Lisa's conscious kicks in and she regrets doing the deal. In a climatic finale, the Devil threatens eternal suffering and the death of her loved ones until she finally succumbs to give the devil a baby that will grow to reign terror upon the world. Featuring the music of : IGGY POP, DMX, THE ONYX, BRAINTICKET & more!
Buy Blu-Ray - https://mvdshop.com/products/devils-domain-blu-ray
Buy DVD - ​https://mvdshop.com/products/devils-domain-dvd

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I Am Hero 

 Product Description:
Hideo Suzuki is still a manga artist’s assistant at the age of 35, but he dreams of making his own debut one day. One day Hideo’s girlfriend is infected by the mysterious virus that turns humans into ZQN, and attacks him! Hideo is shocked and flees Tokyo, taking his shotgun with him. The city is already overflowing with people infected with the virus. Amid the panic, Hideo meets high school student Hiromi Hayakari, and they team together to escape. Hideo and Hiromi seek refuge, along with other survivors, on the roof of a shopping mall where they must shoot ZQNs on sight. Will Hideo be able to protect Hiromi and find a cure for the virus? Can they develop an antibody using Hiromi, who has become a humane ZQN?
Buy Blu-Ray - http://www.ebay.com/itm/I-Am-A-Hero-Region-A-Blu-ray-Japanese-movie-English-Subtitle-Aiamuahiro-/262928423426?hash=item3d37c15a02:g:UTcAAOSwUKxYlJsx

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Time Bandits 

Product Description: A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python animator Terry Gilliam mostly achieves a tricky balancing act in his second feature as sole director, creating a dark, irreverent comedy disguised as a family adventure. Particularly amusing are the boy's encounters with various historical figures, including an entertainment-starved Napoleon (Ian Holm), a powerful Agamemnon (Sean Connery), and a surprisingly stuffy Robin Hood, embodied by Gilliam's Python cohort John Cleese. Episodic by nature, the film is less successful when dealing with the larger narrative, which concerns the pursuit of the dwarves and their time-traveling map by the Supreme Being. However, the combination of Gilliam's visual exuberance and the witty script (by Gilliam and Michael Palin) ensures an entertaining, if erratic, journey.
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Buy Blu-Ray - https://www.amazon.com/Time-Bandits-Blu-ray-Warnock/dp/B003NOGNR4/
Buy Criterion Blu-Ray - ​https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dvd-time-bandits-john-cleese/3620719?ean=0715515133210

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Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid 

Product Description: 
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid may be the most beautiful and ambitious film that Sam Peckinpah ever made. The time is 1881. Powerful interests want New Mexico tamed for their brand of progress, and Sheriff Pat Garrett (James Coburn) is commissioned to rid the territory of his old gunfighting comrades. He serves fair notice to William Bonney--Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson)--and his Fort Sumter cronies, but it's not in their nature, or his, to go quietly. Peckinpah's theme, more than ever, is the closing of the frontier and the nature of the loss that that entails. But this time his vision takes him beyond genre convention, beyond history and legend, to the bleeding heart of myth--and surely of himself.

This is one strange and original movie. In 1973 most American reviewers responded by panning it and deriding its director, whom they saw as having betrayed the promise of Ride the High Country, been swept up in his own cult of violence, and become incoherent as a storyteller. Coherence wasn't helped by MGM's cutting at least a quarter-of-an-hour out of the finished film and removing a bitter, retrospective prelude. Subsequent releases have restored a lot of material, and now there's more widespread appreciation of the depth and power of Peckinpah's achievement.

The cast, teeming with fine character actors, is extraordinary, making the gallery of frontier denizens vivid and resonant. Coburn's Garrett, a man who comes to loathe himself for his mission yet cannot abandon it, is the high-water mark of the actor's career. L.Q. Jones, Luke Askew, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Elam, and Richard Bright create indelible moments, and Slim Pickens becomes the center of an unforgettably moving scene. The presence of Kristofferson (just starting out as an actor) and Bob Dylan (whose enigmatic role is nearly wordless) nudges us toward recognizing Old West outlawry as an early form of rock stardom--flesh-and-blood gods for a primitive society to feed on. --Richard T. Jameson

Special features
Disc One: 2005 Special Edition (115 mins.)
Commentary by Special Edition Producer Nick Redman, Supervising Editor Paul Seydor and fellow Peckinpah biographers/documentarians Garner Simmons and David Weddle
Peckinpah trailer gallery
English 1.0, French 1.0
Disc 2: 1988 Turner Preview Version (122 mins.)
Commentary by Nick Redman, Paul Seydor, Garner Simmons and David Weddle
2 new featurettes:
One Foot in the Groove: Remembering Sam Peckinpah and Other Things
One for the Money: Sam's Song
English 1.0

Buy DVD - https://www.amazon.com/Pat-Garrett-Billy-Two-Disc-Special/dp/B000BT96DC
Watch or Buy on Vudu - https://www.vudu.com/movies/#!overview/10537/Pat-Garrett-and-Billy-the-Kid

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Soldier Blue

Film Description: 
After a cavalry group is massacred by the Cheyenne, only two survivors remain: Honus, a naive private devoted to his duty, and Cresta, a young woman who had lived with the Cheyenne two years and whose sympathies lie more with them than with the US government. Together, they must try to reach the cavalry's main base camp. As they travel onward, Honus is torn between his growing affection for Cresta, and his disgust for her anti-American beliefs. They reach the cavalry campsite on the eve of an attack on a Cheyenne village, where Honus will learn which side has really been telling him the truth.

​Watch or Buy on Vudu - ​https://www.vudu.com/movies/#!content/6956/Soldier-Blue

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Shout Out

Dustin Mills YouTube Channel 
Includes reviews of Toys and a new series "I Love Monsters" look out for episode 2 where i make a guest appearance. 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUXJtmZ4JynTM764zElhNew

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Contest Time

Shawn Moran is the winner of Heated Vengeance!! 
To enter the new contest to win Bird with the Crystal Plumage DVD, Slimy Little Bastards DVD, and Slugs Anchor Bay DVD. Do the following. 
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3. Leave a comment on this page (not the facebook) at this link
4. Subscribe to Dustin Mills YouTube Channel 
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Q&A

Ask a question and have it answered on the next video. Please do below in the comments section. 

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Update

Blu-Rays

1. Caltiki The Immortal Monster (Recommended) 
2. Sorceress 
3. Warlock Collection (Warlock  2 recommended) 
4. Slither (recommended) 
5. Cotton Comes to Harlem 
6. Gator
7. Hickey and Boggs
8. Miracle Mile 
9. Wanderers, The
10. White Lightening
11. Certain Fury
12. Trouble Man
13. Emerald Forest 
14. River of Death 
15. Park Is Mine, the 
16. Prime Cut 

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Brandon Salkil Interview

Dave sits down with former Co-Host (Shut Up Brandon! Podcast!) and discusses acting, comics, and future projects. 
Fans of indie cinema might recognize Brandon from such pictures as Zombie A-Hole, Invalid, Heart Attack, Snuffet, Halloween Spookies, and more.  

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