{"id":2530,"date":"2009-04-26T08:40:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=2530"},"modified":"2009-04-26T08:46:19","modified_gmt":"2009-04-25T21:46:19","slug":"weekend-fright-flick-dead-girls-carwash-and-giant-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/26\/weekend-fright-flick-dead-girls-carwash-and-giant-tick\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Fright Flick: Dead Girls, Carwash and Giant Tick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Weekend Fright Flick<\/strong> on Undead Backbrain is sending a triple feature your way this weekend. It&#8217;s a bit of a mixed bag, but if sexy zombie chicks and giant ticks tweak your interest (and seeing as you&#8217;re reading this blog they probably do), you&#8217;re in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p>First up there&#8217;s a couple of music videos, one at least with a minimalist storyline: &#8220;Fashion Freak&#8221; by Naked Ape (directed by Eric Althin), which features sexy zombies in a carwash, complete with undead chihuahua (I make no comment on the music itself &#8212; this is all about the zombies); and the band&#8217;s follow-up, &#8220;Undo Redo&#8221; &#8212; same appeal with higher disgust factor. What is it about sexy corpses with blood and scabby spots of decay all over them anyway? The film <em>Zombie Strippers<\/em> (US-2008; dir. Jay Lee) explored the same necrophilic obsession, rather effectively, <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/07\/12\/review-zombie-strippers\/\" target=\"_blank\">I thought<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Fashion Freak<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VAQez6n48u0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/VAQez6n48u0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Undo Redo<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4DA-Oz3MUAc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4DA-Oz3MUAc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Our third feature this week is one of Kaiju Search-Robot Avery&#8217;s no-budget finds &#8212; a giant monster film with SFX that are so basic that they work through sheer curiosity value:<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Attack of the Giant Tick<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>(Germany; directed by Holger Sontag)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6TYM75nP9Do&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6TYM75nP9Do&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Through his Mercury Productions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-blog.in\/mercuryproductions\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>, where there appears a whole series of genre-related short films, Sontag seems to be exploring basic animation techniques, each geared to slightly different aesthetic ends. I have to admit, this minimalist giant monster B-flick does achieve a sort of indefinable poignancy.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sources<\/strong>: Thanks to Chuck Mckenzie and of course the ever-vigilant Avery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-blog.in\/mercuryproductions\/Monsterfilm\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mercury Productions<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weekend Fright Flick on Undead Backbrain is sending a triple feature your way this weekend. It&#8217;s a bit of a mixed bag, but if sexy zombie chicks and giant ticks tweak your interest (and seeing as you&#8217;re reading this blog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/04\/26\/weekend-fright-flick-dead-girls-carwash-and-giant-tick\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,4,44,10,95,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2530"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2533,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2530\/revisions\/2533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}