tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32733560648430252032024-03-14T08:43:49.799-04:00Vitamin BurgerVitamin Burger is a film and music blog catering to fans of extreme cinema and left field music.Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.comBlogger179125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-73864885923145847972013-06-08T11:40:00.000-04:002013-06-08T11:40:26.322-04:00VHS Nostalgia: Part One
I don't have to tell anyone in my generation how important the VHS format was for Horror/Exploitation fans! Without it, there are Hundreds or Thousands of titles that we would have NEVER saw! I can still remember the smell of my local Mom N' Pop video store, and can remember that feeling of being a kid, and wandering the darkened confines of the "Horror Room" for hours,Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-45679402942595630962013-06-08T10:41:00.001-04:002013-06-08T10:41:34.748-04:00Dawnfall-Drei Raume(2002)
As the years go by, and I have been listening to Black Metal for for about 28 years now, it seems that my tastes in the genre get weirder and weirder. Of course, part of me is still a purist, and I love primitive Black Metal, and bands that still champion that sound today. But when I want something new, it is usually something strange and retarded(and I mean that in theMitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-82724002775618213502012-12-13T12:38:00.001-05:002012-12-13T12:38:52.708-05:00Top 10 Rock/Other Records Of 2012Well since I listen to so many other types of music, I decided just to call this list "Rock or Other", didn't really know what else to call it. I didn't have any Hip-Hop records this year that were Top 10 worthy(although MellowHype came close), so I guess that name is actually appropriate. I haven't been listening to what people like to call Country these days in quite some time, so again, the Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-85754577583768265762012-12-11T11:03:00.000-05:002012-12-11T11:03:08.522-05:00Top 10 Metal Records Of 2012I do this list every year and it seems to get harder and harder to narrow it down to 10 releases. I listen to so much music, that it really is painful to pick only 10, and to be honest I don't have time to do 20 releases on both lists(I do a "rock" list as well. This year was no exception, there were so many fantastic releases, and I had to leave so many off that were good enough to be on the Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-7149405502878436652012-09-23T21:56:00.001-04:002012-09-23T21:56:53.246-04:00New Horror on the big screen.I have long since stopped going to the movie theatre. The magic that it once held has been erased by chattering idiots on cell phones, and people devouring 3 course meals while their children scream away. thankfully through the internet I don't really miss out on any films that really want to see. Here are 3 that I am really excited about;
Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-69598182527541074622012-07-30T07:53:00.005-04:002012-07-30T07:54:44.443-04:00V/H/S
If you have not seen the trailer above, then either your head has been in the sand, or you are not a Horror Movie fan. As you probably know, I am the latter. I have been obsessed with Horror Films since I was about 5 years old. I know that's a little young to start watching them, but as I am 40, and I haven't went ape shit crazy and killed people, I think I am OK. As most Horror junkies will Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-43131864322282242562012-07-30T07:33:00.001-04:002012-07-30T07:35:16.224-04:00Hypothermia
Hypothermia is a Black Metal band from Sweden. In most cases, you will see them labelled as Depressive Suicidal Black Metal, and as goofy as that term sounds it's pretty apt in this case. The band was formed in 2003 by Kim Carlsson, who at the time was also in Lifelover, Kyla, & Life Is Pain. Since that year they have produced over 18 pieces of music, including LP's, EP's, Splits, andMitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-13116884634459801462012-07-29T07:37:00.001-04:002012-07-29T07:37:23.645-04:00Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski, where to begin? Probably one of the strangest actors to ever grace the Silver Screen. He looked very strange, and from the many stories I have heard, he acted even stranger. He was apparently not an easy man to work with, but I have always found him very fun to watch, and he played in one of my favorite Horror films of all time, Nosferatu(1979). The way he looked in that film Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-70010259557635519872012-05-27T08:34:00.002-04:002012-05-27T08:34:32.927-04:00Jute Gyte-Ritenour's Earth(2012)
Most people do not think of black metal and or drone-doom when they think of Missouri. For all that I know it is so desolate and bleak that all Adam Kalmbach aka Jute Gyte has to do is be very prolific at these said genres. I have followed Jute Gyte since the beginning and I kind of like the fact that you do not know what kind of release that you will getting each time. He produces very Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-45597790950730350402012-04-20T08:54:00.000-04:002012-04-20T08:54:33.821-04:00Gorgoroth:"Antichrist"(1996) I am going to be going back and reviewing some of the most pivotal of the early Black Metal releases, and I figured no better place to start than the mighty Gorgoroth's masterpiece, "Antichrist". This record has been listed or called a full album, but a meager 24 minutes, and 6 tracks, I will only refer to it an EP. Most BM enthusiasts call "Pentagram" and "Under The SignMitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-28147506552215873592012-04-19T10:43:00.000-04:002012-04-19T10:43:09.587-04:00Royal Trux:Bad Blood(A History of Genius) Royal Trux were(are) my favorite band of all time. Sure, there are many more whom I obsess over, but when it comes to bands that are absolute geniuses at their craft, none were bolder or more original than Jennifer Herrema and Neil Michael Hagerty. Now that the band has been broken up for more than 10 years, I figured it was time to refresh the brains of the uninitiated. Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-45995427311767391812012-04-14T09:40:00.000-04:002012-04-14T09:40:40.414-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1989The last installment in image experiment for the 80's, ends on the Full Moon classic Puppet Master. I've always liked Full Moon pictures, they are fun and cheesy, and are our generations version of Hammer films.They always put out very fun and cheesy stuff, and most of the franchises that they have produced are really good. I myself, preferred the Subspecies series, but Puppet Master was always Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-6927223359863896352012-04-14T09:16:00.000-04:002012-04-14T09:16:55.750-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1988This has been the most surprising result of the experiment so far. There are many reasons for this, the main one being that The Vanishing is NOT a Horror film. I suppose that many people would call it that, much in the same way that they call The Silence Of The Lambs one as well. Sometimes the suspense in these types film is so nerve-wracking that it feels more scary than most films being Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-22410146486485208452012-04-13T09:13:00.000-04:002012-04-13T09:13:28.784-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1987Another surprise here for 1987! Although it had some really cool poster/video art, this is one stinker of a movie. By 1987, the Slasher movie boom had petered itself almost all of the way out. This was sad for me, and many other genre fans who preferred Slashers instead of the more cerebral kinds of Horror that was becoming popular in the late 80's. So when this came out, I was immediately Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-27668031881223655252012-04-13T08:59:00.000-04:002012-04-13T08:59:06.285-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1986Wow, this is one of the surprises that you get from doing this sort of experiment and writing on it. This has been more fun writing than I've had in a long time. I am sure that no one is reading it, but it sure is fun to write it. Troll is not really a Horror film, but it has been labelled as such because of it's affiliation with Charles Band. This was before the uber-bad sequel, and the Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-36892846686914728192012-04-12T08:11:00.000-04:002012-04-12T08:11:09.781-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1985Another film that I have fond memories of. I didn't really know how I would approach each of these when I started this little blog experiment. But as they go on, and I see the films that I saw in the theatre back then, the memories come flooding back. These films are the easiest to write about, because I think people like to hear about the experiences of seeing these classics on the big screen. Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-65966750828756102772012-04-12T07:57:00.000-04:002012-04-12T07:57:44.057-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1984The initial installment of the Elm Street series, the only one that really matters, in my opinion. The second one might be novel for all of it's gaiety's, but when we are talking about the fear that a real Horror film can instill, this one is the only one. I remember when it came out, and there was no hoopla about Freddy, we nothing about it, it was such a different time. I saw this film at my Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-53807378728129937612012-04-11T08:11:00.000-04:002012-04-11T08:11:14.170-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1983Finally one that I can get a little excited about!! I just watched this film again the other night. It makes a better watch now that I have became friends with one of the stars, the beautiful, Lesleh Donaldson. Although Curtains was a very troubled production, surprisingly it still came out very coherent, scary, and watchable. It also has always been lumped into the Slasher movie movement, when Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-28828686278609092002012-04-11T07:47:00.000-04:002012-04-11T07:47:01.518-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:19821982.....Cat People, to be honest, this is one that I haven't seen since it originally was released. Well actually, upon it's first run on HBO. I was a kid fully immersed in Slasher films, and something called Cat People didn't interest me that much. Still doesn't to this day to tell the truth. The only things I can recall about the film are, Natassia Kinski licking her own menstrual blood, Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-66047418614223889742012-04-10T09:02:00.000-04:002012-04-10T09:02:50.455-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1981Alright then, when I started this, I said that I would use the first image that pops up for that year, so I suppose that I should stick to that rule.Which makes 1981 hard, because not only have I never seen The Loch Ness Horror, I have never heard of it either. I have to admit, the poster is pretty amazing, and I would love to own and frame that beast! A cursory glance at IMDB tells me that it Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-45771373056512769082012-04-10T08:39:00.000-04:002012-04-10T08:39:44.282-04:00The Horror Movie Image Experiment:1980I decided to do a fun little experiment, and post it to the blog. We all know that you can get some crazy results when you do image searches on Yahoo. So I decided that I would do this for every year of the 80's(the best decade for Horror, IMO). I type in Horror movie images and the year, and I use the first one that pops up, even if it didn't technically come out that year, and say something Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-44704729445882833532012-03-10T10:56:00.000-05:002012-03-10T10:56:15.840-05:00Cloud Nothings-Attack On Memory(2012)"Attack On Memory" is the last kind of record that I could foresee on my end of the year Top 10, but that is exactly where I am sure it will be. We are now embroiled in a major 90's nostalgia music swing. In the past year there has been some really good bands that have came out of this movement, like The Vaccines and Yuck. But there are too many bad ones to name, and most of the offenders were Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-82267039093655574872012-01-09T11:18:00.000-05:002012-01-09T11:18:02.425-05:00100 Tears(2007)As a rule, I usually hate SOV(Shot On Video) movies. They look like a Soap Opera, and the acting is usually bottom of the barrel dreck. And the gore, is usually nothing but fake blood poured all over the actors body. But every once in a while a SOV film will come along, and get these things right, and I will love it. 100 Tears is one of those films.
First of all, I HATE clowns, they scare the Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-67979300650799575322012-01-09T09:54:00.000-05:002012-01-09T09:54:45.768-05:00Malevolence(2004)If you can't tell by reading my reviews, aatmosphere is the most important element to me in a Horror/Slasher film. Many shortcomings such as bad acting, lack of gore, lack of character development, can all be made up for by superior atmosphere. By atmosphere, I also include a great set and/or shooting locale. Malevolence has a few of these shortcomings, not many really, but atmosphere oozes off Mitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3273356064843025203.post-57429380926832203762012-01-04T11:35:00.000-05:002012-01-04T11:35:33.409-05:00Vitamin Burgers Top 10 Metal Records of 201110."The End"-Gallhammer The sound of crusty bolts and nails on spin cycle.
9."Worship Music"-Anthrax Thrash makes it's real return, it's name is Joey.
8."Through The Cervix Of Hawaah"-Antediluvian Portal doesnt have a corner on this market.
7."The Great Southern Darkness"-Glorior Belli If Zakk Wylde had a Black Metal bandMitchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14028954251037970165noreply@blogger.com1