Horror

Meridian

/ / Home Video
  • Title: Meridian
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One of several B-movies Sherilyn Fenn made during during the late 1980s, Meridian was released originally on home video in 1990 (the first of many releases under a variety of titles over the years). Part sexploitation thriller and part fantasy horror, the script adapts ideas from the classic Beauty and the Beast fairy tale, while also weaving in ghosts along with its curse. While problematic, for a number or reasons including our lead falling in love with her rapist, the film has impressive production values for a B-movie with the castle, and the various statues and gargoyles across its lawn, making for a visually interesting backdrop to the proceedings.

Fenn stars as Italian-American Catherine Bomarzini who returns to her family’s castle for the first time in years, also reuniting with her more adventurous college friend Gina (Charlie Spradling) working nearby as an art restorer. Talked into seeing a traveling carnival just outside the castle grounds by Gina, who also invites the performers to dine with them in the castle over Cathehrine’s reservations, the night ends with the twin brothers (who hide the fact that there are two of them) drugging and each raping one of the women.

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Wednesday – Hyde And Woe Seek

/ / Television Reviews
  • Title: Wednesday – Chapter V: Hyde And Woe Seek
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Following the events at Willow Hill, authorities look to capture the escaped residents while Morticia (Catherine Zeta-Jones) and Gomez (Luis Guzmán) will realize that two of them are connected to their past. Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) awakes from a coma to find Enid (Emma Myers) in danger, Tyler (Hunter Doohan) on the loose (leading to a questionable plan to bring him to heel), and former-principal Weems (Gwendoline Christie) acting as her new, and not very supportive, spirit guide. Pieces from the first half of the season begin to fall into place as Pugsley‘s (Isaac Ordonez) zombie becomes human enough to identify and a connection is revealed between the unknown woman Wednesday freed from Willow Hill and both Tyler and Wednesday’s mother.

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Hellboy and the B.P.R.D. – Professor Harvey is Gone

/ / Comics

In the late 1980s, Hellboy investigates the disappearance of an English professor who went missing after coming in contact with a long lost artifact. Hellboy’s interaction with the small statue sends him out of space and time finding the professor on a small island infested with monsters, talking statues, and a ghost goddess on a throne of skulls with whom the old man has become infatuated by (like so many before him).

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza

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  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – Fire in the Piazza
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As expected, the introduction of Smoothie offered up the opportunity for the baby dinosaur to get lost and for an episode set aside to find him. Bringing the group back together, it also allows for them to find some common ground on their other lost friend (despite her own choices leading to her current predicament). Speaking of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) she continues to find cracks in Soyona Santos (Dichen Lachman) and her partnerships which could be exploited in future episodes. And, after teasing it, we finally see the Pyroraptor which offers a showdown between in at the raptors.

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