Alan Fare

I picked up a copy of this flick the other day at a convention and watched it the next day. The lead actor was the one who sold it to me, and he warned me to have a few beers before I watched it. I didn't take his advise and watched the entire film sober. Now I wish I'd taken his advise, as my sides were hurting afterward from laughing through the whole experience!

Just looking at the DVD box, you know it's not going to be an epic. But if you're a fan of adolescent toilet humor made just for the fun of it, this can be a great way to spend 81 minutes with a bunch of equally nerdy friends!

Though there is no nudity or graphic violence, I wouldn't advise showing T.C.F.O.Y. to anyone under 14. The subject matter is all in good fun, but very dirty in content. I'm 43, by the way, and laughed like I was 13 at every gag!

I've seen probably thousands of early Z-grade horror films in my day, not to mention hundreds of newer ones. Jan-Gel, Beast from the East is one of the better of those $5 budget horror flicks to come out in the recent past.

The thing I really liked about Jan-Jel is that it isn't the least bit offensive and really captures the essence of "fun" schlock horror that so many current no-budget horror films tend to avoid. It's fun to watch, it has a fairly interesting story to tell, and you wouldn't have to explain owning it to your mother (other than the fact that Conrad Brooks wrote, directed and starred in it).

I got a good laugh and enjoyed what the cast and crew did with what they had. This is no Lord of the Rings, but it is worth a look for fans of classic Z-grade horror.

Any faithful aficionado of truly bad film should find MUTILATIONS to be a near "Crown Jewel" that surpasses the vacuously mind-numbing dreck passed off as "bad film", raises the bar on too-bad-to-be-true production values though it's mind-warping psycho-nuttiness makes a case for itself. A simplistic masterpiece of ultra-low budgetry gone wild with creativity. When an astronomy professor and his students go on a field trip to investigate a possible meteor landing and reports of cattle mutilations in the same area, they find more than what they expected. Before they even make it to the suspected site, they are greeted with a near-skeletal, but still living, cow and an unfriendly space craft. Does this stop them? Noooo! They follow the leads to the home of a reclusive religious freak who babbles on about the end of the world and hideous monsters from space coming to Earth. Armageddon strikes, for this old coot anyway, shortly after when the alien space craft makes a landing in his living room!

The rest of the film is filled with the professor and his students battling the hilariously bad giant aliens. Kudos to the FX though, the aliens are both inventively done and disturbingly entertaining. This is no STAR WARS, but if you enjoy an over-the-top low budget mind blower this flick just may be your ticket to the loony bin!