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Dower Mindhunter agent Travis (Lamas) teams up with sexy/sparky FBI pistol Kelly McCord (Kristen Cloke) to track down degenerate serial killer Art Dacy (Gary Busey) in this distractingly lively Canadian action thriller. While The Rage proves no less formulaic than squeezey cheese, it remains equally moorish. Like many similarly routine DTV shoot 'em ups, the entertainment quotient is hugely boosted by the live wire presence of magnetic mentalist Gary Busey. The able cast's performances are solid, text provides moments of unintentionally amusing bathos, and no balanced, copiously corn-enriched B-Movie diet is complete without at least one fully loaded Busey/Lamas bullet burger! Furie mounts some explosive action, constructing an especially dynamic vehicular tussle betwixt chewed-up car and truck that is genuinely thrilling to behold! Arguably, the film's strongest appeal will be to trigger-happy recidivist DTV addicts and Gary Busey freaks. Personal highlights include, Lamas's earnest delivery of his 'Live Long and Prosper' line, beautifully batso Busey's toothsome terror tactics, and whoever did the gnarly fire stunt on the lake clearly had some monster cojones!!!!!

Following the detonation of a dirty bomb, the UK is gruesomely plunged into bloody chaos as the dead return to shambling gore-guzzling life! I mostly enjoyed this bargain bucket, blood-spattered, nihilistic throwback to Romero's The Crazies and NOTLD. The performances are earnest, if not always convincing, photography is crudely effective, and a doomy atmosphere is credibly maintained throughout. Zombie Undead is a basic, zestily old school zombie chunkblower, and sometimes that's just what this splatter Mad Hatter needs! I find myself to be in the minority of those who openly enjoyed 'Zombie Undead'.

Melancholy Circus performer Tara Talbot (Victoria Sanchez) suffers from hypertrichosis, and yearns to break away from the freakshow and live life as a normal teenaged girl. With a wonderful cast, this quirky lycanthropic curiosity is coloured with a captivating array of enjoyably eccentric characters, and an especially sympathetic protagonist in the increasingly beleaguered Tara. Obviously, since this is essentially a horror-inflected tragedy, Tara's happy ever after is gruesomely earned, her bloody vengeance wholly justified. As always, the commanding Tim Curry steals the show, but ol' fuzzy face stole my heart! I was very taken by the story, having great empathy for the carny folk, and I'd love to see a restored version of this blood warmingly adult fairy tale.