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Horror / Movie Reviews

Butt Boy

Butt Boy (2020)

Directed by/Co-written by/Starring Tyler Cornack

My quest to watch strange new releases continues as I take a look at the appropriately titled Butt Boy. We here at Scared Sloth are no stranger to bizarre premises to movies, but this one might be a little too much for our more faint of heart readers. I’ll lay this one on the line right from the beginning, this movie is about a guy who is addicted to putting things up his butt. I had no idea how this was going to play out, or how serious they would take it, so I was compelled to watch this movie. I never get graphic in my descriptions, but if this is a little too much for you, please come back soon because I’m tackling a lot of movies in the next few weeks leading up to the glorious celebration of Spooktober.

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Horror / Movie Reviews

Zombie (AKA Zombi 2) and Return of the Living Dead

Zombie (AKA Zombi 2) (1979)

Directed by Lucio Fulci

Return of the Living Dead (1985)

Directed by Dan O’Bannon

Been having zombies on the brain recently, so I decided to watch two well-known classics of the zombie subgenre, Lucio Fulci’s “Zombie” (AKA Zombi 2), which is renowned for its use of heavy gore effects, and the much more comedically slanted Return of the Living Dead, which is perhaps most famous for starting the ‘zombies eat brains’ trope. These were two exceptionally different viewing experiences, and interestingly enough they both have direct links to George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. I mean, all modern zombie films owe a great deal to that particular movie but both films have a particular link that I’ll get more into shortly. Let’s start with Zombie, the Italian gore extravaganza!

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