Fred L. Taulbee Jr. is the author of the novel Ana and House Are One on Amazon, director of the web series Bartenders Rule the Universe and the short film “Dead Inside” both on YouTube, and he shoots people for fun—with a camera, and posts the pictures at Phantasmagoria Productions on Facebook. He’s been an English teacher, bartender, photographer, a poet, a pawn and a king—wait, half of that is Frank Sinatra. He’s been a film and book lover all his life, and horror enthralls him the most.
Think Blade Runner or even Robocop and then forget they exist for just a moment and recall if you can or put it in your queue: Nemesis, directed by Albert Pyun.
Cassandra Peterson, however, will always be the Hostess with the Mostess, the Queen of Halloween, the Mistress of the Dark, and for that we can never thank her enough.
This is the first film of his I’ve viewed, but it’s made me very curious about his three other feature length films, All Superheroes Must Die (2011), The FP (2011), and Wet and Reckless (2013).
Just imagine if Lloyd Kaufman directed a Troma film straight, straight as an art film, and that’s the tone and mood and even the content of Yakuza Apocalypse.