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    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #17
    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #17
    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #17
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    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #17

    By Brian Schell

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    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023

     

    The newest issue of the Horror Bulletin Monthly includes reviews of everything we reviewed last month-- a film each day!

     

    Each of the films contains a complete synopsis of the film, including spoilers (so beware!), as well as our commentary on the quality of the story and how well it holds up for viewers today.

     

    Movie Reviews

    1962 La Jetée
    1971 The Andromeda Strain
    1976 Who Can Kill a Child
    1977 Rabid
    1979 The Brood
    1990 A Cat in the Brain
    1995 12 Monkeys
    2009 Pontypool
    2011 Contagion
    2019 Sator
    2022 A Wounded Fawn
    2022 Hatching
    2022 Hypochondriac
    2022 Nanny
    2022 Nocebo
    2022 Paralysis
    2022 Sissy
    2022 Soft & Quiet
    2022 Something in the Dirt
    2022 The Apology
    2022 The Menu
    2022 We're All Going to the World's Fair
    2022 You Are Not My Mother
    2023 Bermuda Island
    2023 There's Something Wrong with the Children

     

    Short Film Reviews

    Short Film: From Where it Hides (2022)
    Short Film: The Door (2023)
    Short Film: The Plague (2019)
    Short Film: Who's Hungry (2009)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrian Schell
    Release dateFeb 3, 2023
    ISBN9798215038994
    Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023: Horror Bulletin Monthly Issues, #17
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    Brian Schell

    Brian Schell is a College English Instructor who has an extensive background in Buddhism and other world religions. After spending time in Japan, he returned to America where he created the immensely popular website, Daily Buddhism. For the next several years, Schell wrote extensively on applying Buddhism to real-world topics such as War, Drugs, Tattoos, Sex, Relationships, Pet Food and yes, even Horror Movies. Twitter: @BrianSchell Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Brian.Schell Web: http://BrianSchell.com

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      Horror Bulletin Monthly February 2023 - Brian Schell

      INTRODUCTION

      Welcome to the February issue of Horror Bulletin Monthly. In this one, we cover the reviews from January, and we’ve already got films released in 2023. It’s gonna be a great year for horror films!

      HIGHLIGHTS AND LOWLIGHTS

      As always, we watched some gems and some stinkers. Here’s what we each thought stood out this month:

      Brian says The Menu was lots of fun, but more satire than horror. We went into Soft & Quiet blind, and were blown away. Pontypool, while not a new film, was new for us, and we really liked it. We kept waiting for the other shoe to drop in The Apology, but were bored to tears with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair. You Are Not My Mother and Sator were also pretty cool.

      Kevin’s Favorite of the month that jumped out when he looked at our list of viewings was The Menu, which he thought was a truly savory dish. Favorite performance goes to Stephen McHattie in Pontypool, an all-around fine film. Soft & Quiet was the most surprising of everything seen, an unsettling movie that wasn’t what he was expecting. He also really liked There’s Something Wrong with The Children and The Hatching. Seeing 12 Monkeys again was a delight made especially more interesting after seeing the French short film La Jetée that inspired it. His only strong downvote is for We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, a work he didn’t find scary or interesting.

      WEB STORE

      You can now pick up ebook editions of all our Horror Guys Guides and all back issues of Horror Bulletin Monthly issues as well as our fiction stories at https://brianschell.com/ and then click on the appropriate category. Or pick them up at any of the usual e-book places. Although we don’t sell paperbacks from our site, there are links to pick them up on the store site as well.

      Also note that our Horror Guys Guides (not the Horror Bulletin Monthlies) are also now available in hardcover.

      EMAIL US

      As always, we’d love to hear YOUR opinions on the films and critique our reviews. Contact us at [email protected]

      And now… Here. We. Go!

      PART ONE

      MOVIE REVIEWS

      1962 LA JETÉE

      Directed by Chris Marker

      Written by Chris Marker

      Stars Etienne Becker, Jean Negroni, Davos Hanich

      Run Time: 28 Minutes

      Watch the full film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU99W-ZrIHQ

      SPOILER-FREE JUDGMENT ZONE

      It’s a film composed of still black and white images with a narrator telling the story as it unfolds. It’s grim and depressing, but still entertaining. It was the inspiration for the film 12 Monkeys from 1995, and has a similar time looping story.

      SYNOPSIS

      This is the story of a man marked by a violent scene in his childhood that upset him. He saw a violent murder at the airport just before World War III.

      Parents often take children to the airport to watch the planes take off and land. At the time, the boy didn’t even realize that he’d seen a man die.

      Then the war came, and most people died. The survivors settled underground, while most of the surface world was uninhabitable. Prisoners were subjected to experiments. One day, they chose the man who had seen someone die in his childhood; he’s to be the next Guinea pig.

      The experimenter says that the world is doomed. The only hope is time travel to reach food, medicine, and energy. They would rob the past to save the present. They chose this man because he has a strong mental image from the time before the war, which may help him survive the transfer.

      The experiment proceeds, and he winds up in the past before the war. He finds the woman he’s looking for in the past. He can’t believe all the glass and plastic in the world; that’s all gone where he comes from. He meets up with the woman, and they go to a garden. He weaves in and out of her time but keeps returning.

      Then the experiment changes, and he starts meeting her at different times. She starts calling him her ghost. The experimenter can aim him to whatever time they want now. They go to a museum and fall in love.

      The experimenter wants to send the man into the future next. Paris and the world had been rebuilt, but they didn’t want him there. They gave him a super power unit to get humanity back on its feet again.

      His mission is a success, so now he awaits execution. The people from the future rescue him, and he asks to go back to the days of his childhood.

      He goes to the airport to meet up with the woman once again. He runs through the crowd, but a man from his own time shoots him in the back and dies. The little boy, him as a child, at the airport watches his own death, and the whole time loop starts again.

      COMMENTARY

      The story is told through still images, like a really depressing slideshow. The destroyed buildings in WWIII are in black and white and grainy, but they definitely get the point across.

      It’s heavily narrated, and there’s no visual action, but the story is good, and the images are memorable.

      Jetee is French for an observation deck which is where the pivotal action takes place. It’s very different; interesting and unusual.

      1971 THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN

      Directed by Robert Wise

      Written by Michael Crichton, Nelson Gidding

      Stars James Olsen, Arthur Hill, David Wayne

      Run Time: 2 Hours, 11 Minutes

      Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMbSpnlOOtE

      SPOILER-FREE JUDGMENT ZONE

      This is heavily science fiction, but there are some horror elements for sure. It’s steady and tense and a little low on action, but it never gets boring. It has held up over the years and is worth a watch.

      SYNOPSIS

      We are told that what we are about to see is top secret, and based on an actual four-day long event. Credits roll.

      A man looks at the little desert town of Piedmont in his telescope using night vision. He gets back into his van, and we see that it’s a satellite recovery vehicle, here to pick up what’s left after a satellite came down. They notice the town is being circled by buzzards. They call into Vandenberg Air Force base, and they report that there’s no sign of life in the town. There are lots of bodies on the ground. They are ordered to proceed to the satellite. There are screams, and then the radio goes dead.

      Major Mancheck orders an air flyover. He confirms the whole town is dead. Mancheck calls his superiors and declares it a Project Wildfire situation.

      Various scientists and experts are called in. Dr. Jeremy Stone reads the classified report on the way to the base. Dr. Charles Dutton is picked up in the middle of the night. General Sparks is in charge. Dr. Ruth Leavitt doesn’t want to cooperate with the soldiers, but is convinced. Dr. Mark Hall is interrupted in the middle of surgery.

      We’re told that Stone predicted that something like this might happen several years ago. The next morning, Mark and Stone are in a helicopter checking out the town. The man in the copter briefs him that they think it’s some kind of space plague. The buzzards are eating the dead people; there is concern that they’ll fly off and spread the contamination, so they drop gas canisters to kill the birds.

      Mark and Stone land on the ground, and it’s obvious that whatever killed most of these people was nearly instantaneous. A few seem to have gone crazy and lived long enough to kill themselves. None of the bodies appear to have bled at all; all their blood has instantly clotted and turned to powder.

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