Author: The MooCow

Yes, once again Neil Breen is here, back with Indie Film Cafe, NOW! And this time…well, he’s pretty mooch the same cowsmic superman we all know him to be: “Disappointed by its creation, the almighty being that created Man arrives on Earth in a human form and interacts with various troubled, wicked and sinful people on his journey to Vegas”. And whatever happens in Vegas…well, you know. Check out the Latest Podcast Episode to hear what Moody, the MooCow, and special guest co-host Rebecca Rinehart have to say!

Yeah, as usual, its an-udder off the wall, wacko, straaaaange-o flick from one Mr. Neil Breen, humbly casting himself as God and passing judgement on the crappy humans he finds wandering around Las Vegas, known as a spot for finding the finest human beings on the planet! There are druggies, gangsters, prostitutes, politicians, lawyers, cancer-chemo handicapped people, and plastic baby dolls plus the weird men who are amazed by them – and none of them cud possibly be as perfect as Neil Breen…errr, God…the BEING…whatever! And boy howdy do things get messy!

One of auteur Breen’s earlier flicks, I Am here…Now is one weird, jumbled, cowfusing mess of a flick by which the Almighty Being (Breen) gets to windingly pontificate on all of us unworthy, stinky humans, and wonder if HE should just flush the whole damn mess away and start all over again – heck, this cow has thought the same many times. The narrative weird and cowfusing, and there are a lot of odd scenes, which is par for the course for our favorite Vegas director, though this flick lacks the polish of some of his later films – though for the moost part they too are weird and cowfusing. As usual, there is no one else besides BREEN who stands out, although Tommie Vegas (Project M, Party Night, Another Evil Night) does appear in the opening as a cowfused human. And, as usual, the acting is amazeballs!

As for the story, who the heck knows? Doesn’t matter, its Neil Breen!!! Don’t give up baby! :=8D

Well, the votes are in and the streak is broken!!! After 30’s from our first two Neil Breen flicks, I Am Here…Now only comes back with a 28 Total Stink Score, getting 10’s from Moody and the MooCow, but only an 8 from Rebecca Rinehart, who is clearly in love, love, love with our Supreme Being, and that’s ok! That’s a Stinky Average of 9.3 – pretty stinky, but it falls just outside of Stinky Heaven! A little disappointed in our species??

The glorious trailer is right HERE. Some kind soul put it up on the Tube of You, but I dunno cow long it will stay up there so do yourself a favor and watch it NOW before the Supreme Being of the Universe uses his mind powers to make it go away! :=8O
You can also find this and udder Neil Breen delights on the Internet Archive.org. Udderwise you have to git your hooves on a copy through the man himself – and this is cow you do it:
www.facebook.com/neil.breen.12

@NeilBreen: Twitter

FatefulFindings@aol.com

https://www.fatefulfindings.biz is the webpage where you can order some Breenerage, but not all the Breenerage, but who knows, maybe you can now.

You can watch the 6 minute version HERE. And of course, the flick was covered by Cinema Snob! And there are many udders who review the flick too.

Redbubble.com has a BUNCH of Breen posters, and you need each and every one of them! Cinematerial.com has the digital posters on all of them too. Neil Breen muggage can be found here too! And its all clean, baby!

Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody back again for another article. Once again sorry its taking so long. Just so much going on but I made myself do this and will hopefully have a couple more ready soon. In this episode John Ward got to pick the movie to do a review for and he picked a movie he really liked (Surprise! Surprise! Seems to be everyone’s go to). I brought Taylor Kilgore back since they were buds and actually worked together. Figured that would be an interesting episode. And it was. The movie is, “Let us Prey”… and here’s what its about:

According to IMDB: Rookie Cop Rachel is about to begin her first night-shift in a neglected police station in a Scottish backwater town— the kind of place where the tide has gone out and stranded a motley bunch of the aimless, the forgotten, anthem bitter, and the twisted who all think that they really deserve to be somewhere else. They all think they’re there by accident and that, with luck, life, will get better. Wrong on both counts. Six is about to arrive— and all hell will break loose.

The film is directed by Brian O’Malley who directed The Lodgers and episodes of That Dirty Black Bag, The Ex-Wife, and Alex Rider. The film was written by Fiona Watson, who’s only other script is for an episode of Twisted Tales; David Cairns who wrote Natan and Who is Bill Rebane?, as well as additional writing by Brian O’Malley himself.

The film stars Liam Cunningham as Six: Six is the instigator of the whole thing -and the scariest of the bunch. Throughout the film you’re not exactly sure who or what he is. You just know you don’t want him loose. Liam was Davos Seaworth in Game of Thrones, he was also in The Vault, and most recently in the Last Voyager of the Demeter. Also starring Pollyanna McIntosh as PC. Rachel Higgins. Pollyanna has been in the Walking Dead, She was the Woman in The Woman, and Metatron in the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. Bryan Larkin plays PC Jack Warnock; Bryan was in Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I am Vengeance, and Chasing the Dragon. Hannah Stanbridge plays PC Jennifer Mundie; Hannah was in the movie Ladybaby, the TV series River City, and the movie Christmas Hear Kids.

I really don’t want to give much a way because there are a ton of twists in this movie. All the twists I didn’t see coming in one way or another and it was one of the movies that really kept you on your toes. I dug seeing that considering most independently made horror or action films these days are very easy to see coming. I usually know the ending before it’s even begun. This movie on the other hand kept me at the edge of my seat and guessing each time. John, Taylor, and I were really impressed. It’s not usual you get a movie like this – especially not for Indie Film Cafe. Which I guess is a good thing that John ended up picking it for the movie. Once again I don’t want to ruin your movie going experience if you haven’t seen it. But if you just want to hear what we had to say about it understand there are spoilers. I’d go in blind and watch it first and then go back and listen to us jibber-jabber about it.

Well the scores are in: John Ward of course gave it a 1. Like I said before he picked it because he loved it. I gave it a 2. And I was actually expecting Taylor to give it in the range but she ended up giving it a 5. She felt like she was a bit confused through out the film especially with the religious aspect and John and I totally get that. But that gave the score a stink total of 8. Which puts that up with A Better Place, Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter, Hey Stop Stabbing Me, and Arcade. Not a bad group to be in with.

Okay… so that wraps up another write up from me. Next will be one of Paul’s and then I think it’ll be back to being me again. Oh boy! Anyhoo… here is the MooCow himself to let you all know where you can find this flick. Take it away MooCow….

Yeah, I HERD this was a pretty good flick, and u can’t go wrong with the good ol’ Onion Knight himself! Anycow, HERE is the trailer. For you creepy cheapies out there someone put this up on YouTube for free, but of course it is low quality. Udderwise, check it out on streaming on Tubi, Google Play, or on Prime. U can git yer hooves on a DVD or Blu Ray copy on Amazon, or find it second hoof at Ebay. Grab the digital poster at Cinematerial.com and MPoster.com. Get a real deal poster at TheMovieDB.org. if you dig the script you can get a copy of it HERE. And check out the Vault of Horror podcast to hear their review of the film.
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Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody here back again! And this time it’s gonna be a bit shorter than normal, mainly because I really don’t want to talk about this but we do one of these every time soooo anyway here it goes! We recorded this episode a while back in November 2022 and then it got released in March 2023, and boy did it stir up a lot of controversy – which I will get in to a bit. I asked Paul my co-host and special guest Jason Cooke to come on. It was Jason’s first episode on our show and hopefully won’t be the last. We got more to get him in on. But this so far has been the only one for Indie Film Cafe he has done.  

The movie in question is… Joel D. Wynkoop’s Lost Faith, which I got directly from Joel himself. Maybe he was suspecting a more glowing review or maybe he was not expecting some of the things we said because a lot of people love it to death. Hell, I enjoyed it for the campiness of it.

Here is a bit of a disclaimer…. We love bad movies. We love watching them. We love reviewing them. They are fun. The lower the budget, the even more fun. And when we review these movies we are generally talking about our love for them (whether they are good, bad, or ugly it doesn’t matter to us cause we had a blast doing it)… if a movie bores us or we just weren’t in to it we wouldn’t review it. 

With that being said this movie was fun to me. I love it. I’m glad I own it. However it’s still not a great movie. Like, it has problems. It goes off the rail a lot. Like, there is NO purpose to some of the scenes except either for padding or for ridiculousness. And the ridiculousness is fine but some of the rest of the movie doesn’t hold up to that and so the film to me is kind of uneven. Which is normal for a Low Budget film. There are some really fun scenes and Joel shows off his karate skills like you wouldn’t believe! 

However in the end we said what we said, and this is one of the first times on our actual podcast that the director felt differently than we did and was a little upset. All I can say is I will stand by my review because what I said and what others said were what we felt at the time. We didn’t even give it a 30 which is the highest stink rating you can give. I just want to once again clarify that when I say a movie is bad it means I probably enjoyed it for what it was. Whether people agree or disagree is none of my business and none of my concern. That’s all up to interpretation. 

And the scores are in….  I gave it a 9; Paul gave it a 10; and Jason gave it a 9.5 bringing the stink total to 28.5, or a Stinky Average of 9.5. Which puts it up there with A LOT OF MOVIES… including: Alien Prophecy, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Midget Zombie Takeover, Blood Predator, Hard Rock Zombies, and The Creeping Terror. 

Well that’s it for me… even a little longer than I was planning to talk. If you wanna know what we are talking about Paul will put up the link to the episode. Speaking of Paul… the Moo Cow is gonna take over and show you guys where you can get this and maybe he’ll add his own thoughts on the whole show… take it away Paul…

Check out the SLAM-BANG TRAILER on Youtube! SLAM!! BANG!! This is the so-called HYPER trailer! And here is a message about the film from the man himself, Joel D. Wynkoop! And check out this tv cowmmercial spot for the flick!

Pick up the Vinegar Syndrom Blu Ray release, including the special slip cover release, HERE. The standard Blu Ray is also on Amazon. The DVD is tough to find these days, but it does pop up on Ebay from time to time. I wish I cud offer you some places for the poster, a tee shirt, a mug, or udder merch, but at this time there doesn’t seem to be anything beyond the Blu Ray – but if that changes we will update the page! We all need some extra Wyncoopage!

In the meantime, here is the Bad Movie review, and also So Bad Its Good. Here is the man himself talking moore in depth about his moovie, and the Bad Movie Night interview. This flick also appears on Schlocaholics, and on Grindbin! Joel has his own Youtube channel too, check it out!

Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody back here. Sorry its been a while. Things have been off the hook crazy with everything IFC and the network has been doing. So I finally got the chance to just sit down here and write up this episode. Which was a bit of a fun one. Back last year Paul and myself went out to Scarefest in Lexington KY and met Uncle Lloyd Kaufman of Tromaville. Lloyd was gracious enough to do an interview with us which you can find on our site. Anyhoo, we also got to meet in person Jessa Flux who was our guest host for a few episodes and will most likely be returning for Season 7. And we decided to do SGT. Kabukiman, NYPD since she had never seen it and it has been by far my favorite Lloyd Kaufman directed Troma movies.

Now don’t get me wrong… I love me some Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and even Class of Nuke Em High. Paul is very partial to Poultrygeist which I am sure will come on this show as well but I am 100 percent a fan of Kabukiman, It is so ridiculous and off the wall but honestly has. A great heart to it which I feel lacks a lot of the Troma movies that got put out. I think a lot of that has to do with multiple directions it took. This is a hard R movie but has some PG-13 style qualities to it. Mainly since the Japanese investors originally wanted to market it toward kids and Lloyd really had no interest in doing that. So Lloyd made this weird ass flick instead. Even though it is co directed by Michael Herz you know a lot of it is the brain child of Lloyd.

The story is about a streetwise New York Police Officer who transforms in to the world’s most unusual superhero… KABUKIMAN. He starts taking down the thugs and bad people in New York while also trying to do his regular job as a Sergeant in the NYPD. There’s a lot of gore and a lot of wackiness that ensues in this flick. Also very offensive and very politically incorrect. Not surprising for all of this considering that pretty much describes Troma to a tee.

Troma back in the early 90s were really starting to hit their stride. They were becoming more and more popular. Mainly due USA playing, “Toxic Avenger” all the time right next to Revenge of the Nerds (oh man another movie you could not really make these days) and because of the early 90’s cartoon, “The Toxic Crusaders” which I use to see as a kid on the Morning cartoons. I never liked it because I found it too weird when I was a kid. That was because I was in to shows like GI Joe, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Which is what the Japanese investors wanted SGT. Kabukiman to end up being.

The Japanese investors were more interested in (In the words of Mel Brooks…) “Moichendizing”… they wanted Kabukiman dolls, lunch boxes, back packs, and whatever other merchandise they could sell to little 9 year old kids like me at the time. However like I said earlier that just wasn’t Troma. Troma had no interest in making basically a commercial product for kids. They were an adult studio. They wanted to market to late teens and adults that were interested In guts, gore, nudity and all that. And boy did they do that. I’m pretty sure the investors were not pleased.

As a 40 year old adult I’m pleased as punch though. This is exactly the type of superhero movie I feel like the world needs. I know Jessa really enjoyed it for her first time watching it and Paul well he loves the wackiness of Troma and on the show he was a plethora of knowledge about that time period. And if you are looking for more information on SGT. Kabukiman I’d say to check out the book, “Everything I know About FILMMAKING I learned from The Toxic Avenger” by Lloyd Kaufman. They have a whole chapter devoted to the making of SGT. Kabukiman, and it is worth the read.

And the scores are in… And of course I had to give it the lowest score on here cause yes it is my favorite. I gave it a 2 on the Stinkometer. If this is your first time reading this a 2 is low on the stink: I really enjoyed it and loved its wackiness. Paul gave it a 4.5 which I’m still a bit surprised about – I mean that’s low, but not as low as I expected from him. And Jessa gave it a 4, which for her first time watching this flick she really did enjoy it. Obviously there were problems but I overlooked a lot of them because, well, Troma is one of the companies that just makes things silly. That makes the total of 10.5 which puts it between For Y’ur Height Only, Lunatics a Love Story, and Tromeo and Juliet… and a Stinky average of 3.5. Wow… two Troma movies tied by the same score. That’s incredibly awesome.

Well that’s it for this write up! I’ll be doing the next two as well and they should be out soon. I know we have been slacking but a lot of that just has to do with fitting it in to the schedule. Anyway… more to come… but until then listen to Paul tell you how to find the film and how to buy the Merch for it…. Take it away The Moo-Cow Avenger….

Well cats and kitties, here is your TRAILER – I think it pretty mooch says it all… ;=8) You can find it for free on Youtube, and also Tubi, but we should all try to support indie companies like Troma, so try to buy yerselves a copy! Uncle Amazon has the DVD, Blu Ray, AND VHS version of this film, so there is no excuse! And its on PRIME too. You can also find it at Wallyworld, BreastBuys, Barnes & Nobles, Oldies.com, and Grindhouse Video, but the best way is to go through TROMA DIRECT itself so that Uncle Lloyd gets all the cashola! You can also get it used through the resale market in places like Ebay and DeCluttr.

Redbubble has a kewl Kabukiman poster for sale, and Cinematerial.com has the traditional poster in digital form; original posters come up for sale now and then on Ebay and Posteritati. There are a butt-load of places to get the Tee-shirt, including TeePublic, Redbubble, Chief T-shirt.com, Artistshot, Printerval.com, and AliExpress, although Twisted Merch might have the best one, IMO. Get the coffee mug at TeePublic, GoMugYourself, and The Sticker Space. ETSY has a kewl Kabukiman patch too! AND you can pick up the blue vinyl soundtrack there as well. Ebay also has enamel pins and udder stuff too, so check it out! And if yer votin’ for Kabukiman for president, and who isn’t, then you need this Vote for Kabukiman Button!

DVDTalk has a pretty good discussion about the film and its origins, and, of course, it is on the Tromaville WIKI. AND, if that isn’t all, will there be a Kabukiman return???

Hay everyone, its yer old pal the MooCow here, and ummm….holy cow, what the heck do we have here?? Somecow the Indie Film Cafe kids have stumbled onto (and you can blame the MooCow, of course) one of the weirdest, moost grotesque, way the F out baffling bit of moovie weirdness yer ever gonna see – and its none udder than Damon Packard‘s Reflections of Evil! And boy howdy does we has a straaange cowversation about this little splash of cinema weirdness on the latest episode of Indie Film Cafe, with Moody, the MooCow, and poor Ri Maku, who had NO IDEA what she was in store for!
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Yeah, good luck trying to figure out the narrative in this one. This very large, very angry homeless person wearing no less than 75 pairs of headphone wanders around a nightmare version of L.A. trying to sell watches, eat copious amounts of snacks, and find his sister Julie, who was swallowed up by Stephen Spielberg during a trip to Universal studios in the 70’s, only to discover that both of them are dead and he is in hell – which we kind of figured out already. The ghastly over-saturated colors, the incredibly abrupt and seemingly random cuts, constant violence and extreme cursing, and the disjointed voices, mixed with the loud, jarring squelches and slurps and slorp sounds, makes for what can only be politely described as a caustically nightmarish cinematic experience for the uninitiated. Well, at least its a fun one, right?? Welllllll…..

Ok, udderneath all of this stuff there is actually an interesting story here, wrapped up in some pretty interesting editing technique IMO, BUT you do have to suffer – and the MooCow does mean SUFFER!!! – through a long-ass weird disturbing story to finally get to put things together, and I am willing to bet that moost viewers are not gonna have the patience to sit through all of dis. Epic in scope and length, nightmarish in execution, the moovie cud have dialed both back a bit and still made its points.

The moovie stars Damon Packard himself, and he is also the writer and director; and while udder folks do pop in now and then as minor characters, and a few famous folks (like Tony Curtis) who show up and bits and pieces edited in to make it seem like they’re really there, this moovie really is a one-man show – kind of like a Neil Breen flick, if Neil Breen were on all of the drugs. I mean ALL of them.

This flick ranges from the subversive to the downright inscrutable, with healthy helpings of blasphemy, grotesquery, buffoonery, and huge swirling indigestible chunks of nothingness. This isn’t a moovie so mooch as a fight for your sanity, and Damon Packard isn’t playing – he WILL drive you bat shit insane, if you allow him. Its an attack on society, film conventions, Hollywood and Hollywood’s moost beloved members (especially Stephen Spielberg, who clearly peed in Packard’s Cheerios at some point), and pretty mooch everything else. Packard, who also works as an editor, has made udder weird short and full-length flicks before (especially the MooCow’s favorite Foxfur, hopefully covered next season on Indie Film Cafe!), but nothing comes off quite like this film, and if you are a serious film nerd then you really need to check this ambitious but punishing film out!

Well, the votes are in, and ummm…yeah, Ri Maku was not shy about scoring this one all the way up to a solid 10. Moody went with a 9.5, while the MooCow, generously, score the film an 8.5, giving a total Stink Score of 28.0 for Reflections of Evil, and that’s a Stinky Average of 9.3! On the Ladder of Stink, this moovie ranks pretty high up there, along with the likes of Barn of the Blood Llama, Fungicide, Thankskilling, and Curse of Bigfoot! Huzzah!!!

HERE is the trailer, check it out! And there is a NEW ONE for the blu ray release! And someone made a blu ray trailer with Belinda Carlisle, as you do! Woohoo!!! Check out Damon Packard’s personal Youtube page for moore videos and wacky stuff! Be warned, there are at least 4 different versions of this flick floating around; on Youtube you get a compressed version, but the original uncut director’s version is HERE on Amazon, but it ain’t cheap. TrashCult.com has it too for a bit less. DVDParty.com has the Damon Packard authorized full length original version on 2 DVDs! You can find the DVD on Ebay as well, but who the heck knows what version yer getting?? You can stream it for cheap at PivotShare.com, and its on Prime.

The good news is that both DVDParty.com and Pit of Infinite Shadow BOTH have the 20th anniversary Blu Ray version, so rush out and git her hooves on a copy soon! MoviePosterdb.com has the digital version of the poster that you can download for FREE! Bleeding Skull, Pop Matters, and 366 Weird Movies.com all have reviews, as does Underground Film Journal and Unboxed Watched and Reviewed has a video review – check ’em out! Also Film Threat Livecast did an interesting video interview with Damon Packard you should check out as well, the MooCow would LOOOVE to git him on our Indie Film Cafe Spotlight one day!