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A Vampire Feature “The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann” Needs Your Help

April 24, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann is slated to be a violent teen vampire feature film from the award winning production company October Eleven Pictures out of Dublin, Ireland.

Jason Figgis (Director) has worked on projects such as; Sky One, Sky Arts, the Discovery Channel amongst others, and has distributed Hollywood Studio, Lionsgate films.

The Ecstasy Of Isabel Mann is campaigning for donations and is very important at succeeding in the goal to get this incredible vampire tale made. Everyone involved in this feature film project has worked hard over several months preparing the film in drama workshops with the teenagers involved in the cast as well as a huge amount of time and effort on set from all involved to realize this exciting feature film.

DONATIONS and INFORMATION LINK.

Anyone who contributes to this project will help them realize the end result of this film to the highest standard possible. They believe they have a very exciting take on the Vampire genre…with no holds barred in terms of the performances from the teen and adult cast alike. This is like a Socio-realist vampire film but with plenty of gore!!!

Desert Flower (Book Review)

January 16, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

Book: Desert Flower
Year: 2012
Publisher: Eternal Press
Author: Tom Olbert
Language: English
Chapters: 23
Pages: 66
Type: Novella

Author’s Summary: A lost dream, a desperate hope…lost innocence, and a horror black as night. A young girl’s innocence is ripped from her when she is turned against her will into a vampire. Hunted and alone, Fleurette longs for escape from her hellish existence of eternal night, blood-letting and carnage. In war-torn Afghanistan, another young girl, Ruhee has been cast into another kind of dark bondage as a child bride. Raped, tormented and suffering, she longs for escape. These two lost souls find a strange but pure form of sisterly love together as they survive side-by-side in a world gone mad. Ruhee must grow up amid war and turmoil. As if American predator drones and the deadly raids of the Taliban were not bad enough, she must keep her “sister’s” dark secret, while merciless vampire hunters lurk in the shadows. When Ruhee comes of age and finds an unlikely but pure love with a brave but deeply troubled young Taliban soldier named Batal, Ruhee finds herself trapped between light and darkness. Her heart is torn in two, and she must make an impossible choice between love and immortality, as her young life teeters on the brink of hell.

Review: A teenage girl, Fleurette, has no one left, everyone she knows has been killed. She gets turned into a vampire and wanders around until she crosses paths with another teenage girl who desires help as the youngling is being raped and badly bitten. Onwards to lost souls, torment, brutality and the desire for blood.

Fleurette’s changing ways…she is amped to become a creature of the night who helps save other girls during a war-torn society. So many soldiers are cruel with destruction and lack of unjust humanity without a care in the world. It’s up to Fleurette to save the ravaging brutality and death of the teens in these despicable times.

The story is incredible and snagged my attention from the get-go. I should say I am a touched bias as the vampire novels are amongst my favorites. There’s a fascination with this ravaging undead that I have always gravitated to. I read this from start to finish in one sitting, and so will you, I guarantee it. It’s a scary story that makes you cringe with all of the violence, mayhem and torture which leads you continue on in hopes of a happy ending.

Desert Flower is available to buy online at many outlets in Paperback form for $10.96 (the lowest I found). Or you have the option of buying the Electronic Edition (E-Book) for your portable device like a Kindle or iPad at a price of $3.95. I have to conclude with the pricing on this book; for a novella of fewer than 70 pages, I think the price is awful steep, but…and this is a good but…this is a fantastic read and should be purchased unequivocally if you are a horror reader. My ratings, suggestions and links are below.

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Reviewer: Dark Goddess
Date: 01/16/2013
Rating: 10/10
Suggestion: Paperback: Buy
Suggestion: E-Book: Buy

The Sentinel (Book Review)

July 16, 2012 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

Book: The Sentinel
Year: 2011
Publisher: BreakNeck Media
Author: Jeremy Bishop
Language: English
Chapters: 47
Pages: 284
Type: Novel

Author’s Summary: In the frigid waters off the Arctic Ocean, north of Greenland, the anti-whaling ship, The Sentinel, and her crew face off against a harpoon ship in search of Humpback whales. When the two ships collide and a suspicious explosion sends both ships to the bottom, the crews take refuge on what they think is a peninsula attached to the mainland, but is actually an island, recently freed from a glacial ice bridge. Seeking shelter, the two opposing crews scour the island for resources. Instead, they find Viking artifacts, the preserved remains of an ancient structure and a stone totem warning of horrible creatures buried in the island’s caves. Facing violent, frigid storms, a hungry polar bear and the very real possibility that they are stranded without hope of rescue, Jane Harper leads the two crews, who must work together to defend themselves against an ancient evil upon which the modern stories of both zombies and vampires are based. The original undead are awake and hungry. Beware the Draugar.

Review: I loved The Sentinel; I couldn’t put this book down. It is one of the best horror novels I have read in a long time. It captured and kept my attention span the whole time. I read The Sentinel in two sittings. I would of read it straight through if I didn’t have to get up for work the next morning. I thought about The Sentinel during my daily chores at the office and rushed home to finish the novel after supper.

The Sentinel has it all; zombies, vampires, mystery, suspense, crime, investigations and a titillating level of detail. You have two organizations; one that is exterminating whales to protect civilization and one that lands in the middle; some good characters and some bad. When the Vikings attempt to blow up the ship to stop the madness, a catastrophe happens and both vessels sink, which lands them on an unknown island which houses curses and evil.

Now on an uninhabited island with underground caves, a mysterious trap gets opened, and the dead now becomes the undead, and these zombie type creatures start – killing, infecting and biting the shipwrecked survivors turning them into zombiefied battlers.

Now there is a race against time for survival; the two opposing crews must rely on the intelligence of Jane Harper who struggles to maintain sanity over the opposing groups while staying safe against inclement weather, zombies, vampires and the starving animals who want them dead.

The Sentinel is available for $14.99 in Paperback form, or if you have an Amazon Kindle or E-Reader Device you will be pleased to know that an electronic form of The Sentinel is only $3.99. My ratings and suggestions are below.

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Reviewer: Dark Goddess
Date: 07/16/2012
Rating: 10/10
Suggestion: Paperback: Buy
Suggestion: E-Book: Buy

Death Hunter: Werewolves Vs. Vampires Review

November 17, 2011 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

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Movie: Death Hunter: Werewolves Vs. Vampires
Year: 2010
Studio: MTI Home Video
Director: Dustin Rikert
Language: English
Length: 92 Minutes
Sub-Genre: Werewolves, Vampires

Plot: When a stranded motorist is tagged by a werewolf in the Arizona desert — mere moments after his wife was attacked by vampires — a werewolf-vampire hunter comes to his rescue and trains him how to fight the creatures of the night.

Review: This is going to be completely a one-sided review because Death Hunter taps into the bottom of the barrel. This is an example of how not to make a horror movie.

Lets get the story out of the way before I go into a vicious diatribe. A couple celebrating there one-year anniversary head out into the desert for a camping vacation. They run out of gas before they reach their destination and come across a strip joint that is the home of a vampire clan. The wife (Shari Wiedmann) gets kidnapped and the husband (Sam McConkey) escapes, but soon gets bit by a werewolf. Low and behold, a mysterious hunter has invented a concoction to stop the man-to-werewolf transformation and tells the husband he is the chosen one. We then get shuffled off to 30 minutes of training sessions, and then the fight to save his wife ensues, hence, a sort-of werewolf hybrid verse weak vampires.

The bads; everything! Death Hunter has extremely poor acting, atrocious CGI, horrible fake sets, outrageously bad music and sound effects, total amateurish video effects, and if it could get more cruddy it does; we get a horror movie that isn’t frightening in the least. This movie is meant to be serious and scary, but it achieves just the opposite.

There is one semi-good computer aided effect when the sensei of sorts, stops the werewolf transformation. It looked pretty good with greenish wobbling effects running through the body. I am lenient of sorts when it comes to independent horror movies, and can usually pick out several positive points in the low budget side of horror, but Death Hunter: Werewolves Vs. Vampires is totally lame and I am disappointed with every aspect of this film. Avoid like the plague!

Reviewer: BillChete
Date: 11/17/2011
Rating: 1/10
Recommendation: Avoid

Trailer: Watch
DVD: Amazon
BluRay: N/A
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