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VAMP U An Award Winning Horror/Comedy Is Available On VOD

March 1, 2013 By Horror Palace Leave a Comment

VAMP U an award winning horror comedy which reached #1 on iTunes for the most popular movie trailer! Check out the trailer for yourself at https://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/vampu/.

Also a winner for – “Best Horror Film” at Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival and "Best Actor" – Adam Johnson & "Best Actress" – Julie Gonzalo at Los Angeles Comedy Festival.

If you are attending the SXSW Film Festival, join in for a special one-night only showing of VAMP U at the best theater in Austin…Alamo Drafthouse Slaughter Lane on March 14 at 10:00 p.m.

VAMP U is a hilarious vampire comedy packed with sexy sorority girls, crazy frat boys, bloodthirsty vampires, and lots of laughs that was written and directed by Maclain Nelson (Osombie, Orc Wars and Dragon Warriors) and Matt Jespersen, plus it features a great cast of rising stars and veteran talent.

Synopsis:

Wayne Gretzky (Adam Johnson) is a vampire with fangs that won’t grow. His “impotence” began when he inadvertently killed Mary, the love of his life, 300 years ago. To take his mind off the pain, he teaches college history – who better than a guy who’s been around for centuries? Attempting to regain his full vampire powers, he enlists help from his friend and colleague, Dr. Levine (Gary Cole). But nothing works…that is until a new semester brings freshman Chris Keller (Julie Gonzalo) – a dead ringer for his beloved Mary. They begin to have an affair, which quickly goes south when he accidentally turns Chris into a vampire. Now, as she leaves a bloody trail of destruction across campus – converting a sorority house full of coeds including the irresistible Samantha (Alexis Knapp) to her vampire legion – Wayne is faced with the task of stopping her before they kill the entire student body!

Cast:

Adam Johnson (Orc Wars, Frozen and upcoming Dragon Warriors)
Gary Cole (Pineapple Express, Talladega Nights, Entourage, Office Space and Dodgeball)
Julie Gonzalo (Dodgeball, A Cinderella Story, Must Love Dogs, Eli Stone and currently starring on Dallas)
Alexis Knapp (Pitch Perfect, Project X, Percy Jackson & the Olympians and Couples Retreat)

Available NOW on VOD and Digital Download, plus coming to DVD on March 12, 2013!

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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

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
Social Media: Facebook

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