The Terror (1963)

Filed Under BBT, Jef Taylor, horror, Jack Nicholson, Roger Corman, Boris Karloff, Eyes pecked out, Phased plasma rifle | 2 Comments

 

 

 

Movie Reviews with BBT Critic Jef Taylor

 

 

 

One of Napoleon’s soldiers, traveling the countryside, becomes entranced by a spectral woman.  He follows her to the looming castle of a crumbling baron.  There he uncovers a mystery containing an old romance, murder, revenge, witchcraft, madness, and shifting identity.  It sounds like a perfect vehicle for a young Jack Nicholson.  Or at least that’s what director Roger Corman thought.

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La Jetee (1963)

Filed Under BBT, Jetpacks, Soylent Screen, Jef Taylor, Art, futuristic dystopias, Time travel | 3 Comments

BBT critic Jef Taylor
watches an art film–don’t worry, it’s short!

In the subterranean society that survives beneath the radioactive wreckage left after World War Three, human beings are experimented on.  "The outcome was disappointment for some, death for others, and for others, madness."  But one man’s obsession with a childhood event makes him different, and the experiments on him are successful: he becomes a time traveller.

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Fahrenheit 1984

Filed Under BBT, Soylent Screen, Jef Taylor, Batman, Lord of the Rings, futuristic dystopias, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, Equilibrium, Christian Bale, Contraband puppies | 3 Comments

 

 

 BBT critic Jef Taylor reviews Equilibrium (2002).

 

If emotions are outlawed, only outlaws will have emotions.  That’s the simple pitch of Equilibrium, a futuristic dystopia that features Batman and Boromir as a pair of crack stormtroopers in the Thought Police, who are devoted to stamping out feelings as well as the cultural artifacts that might inspire feelings.  They must shoot and/or incinerate loving spouses, books of poetry, recordings of Beethoven, colored glass bottles, patterned wallpaper, and even mirrored disco balls.  "But what about puppies?" I can hear you asking.  Are even cute little puppies incinerated?  I’m here to tell you that puppies are ESPECIALLY incinerated.

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Little Otik (Otesanek, 2000)

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Movie Reviews with BBT Critic Jef Taylor

 

A would-be mother, unable to conceive, is distraught.  Her husband is so heartbroken that he daydreams about fishmongers selling newborn babies by the pound on the street below the fertility clinic.  What he actually does to create his family is no less bizarre or improbable.  He chops a root out of the bare earth of his country cabin’s land, roughly hews it into a human form, a mandrake for his bride.  Her desperation and love animate this ugly tangle of plant material into a mewling baby.  That’s when the killing starts.

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The Final BBT Magazine Has Arrived!

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After many long and sleepless nights, we are proud to announce the arrival of our final issue, #3, for you reading enjoyment. It’s free, but you will find a donation button below to help assuage some of the financial pain this endevour has cost yours truly. If you have ever enjoyed an issue of BBT or found us a joy to be around on the website please use that little donate button - we’ll use the money to get out of this financial hole and into another when we start the anthologies in the winter.

 OK, enough with the fundraiser, onto the good stuff - This issue is indeed a doozy! it ways in at over 100 pages and is chock full of literary & satirical goodness:

  •  Another stunning cover by Henning Ludvigsen
  • Jesus Christ Supersize by L Christopher Delguercio
  • Poems by Greg Schwartz, Marshiela Rockwell,  & Sheley Ontis
  • Buyer Beware by Eric R Lowther
  • House Share by Graham Fielding
  • Fritz Volts Atomic Stimuli Intensifier Helmet by James M Harris
  • For Love of the Machine by Irving
  • The Most Haunted House in New York State by Gregory Adams
  • Fairy by Sara King
  • A Bright and Joyful Future by John B Rosenman
  • The Brothers Swann by C A Gardner
  • Eye of Ares by Jason Sizemore
  •  A Sit-Down Interview With A Song of Ice and Fire author George R R Martin by Kennedy Smith
  • An Interview with our final Cosplay Girl, Vera Vanguard - The Live Action Figure by Edward Brock
  • Where Ther’s Smoke, There’s Heartburn by Nicholas Ozment
  • A sit down interview with Joe Hill, author of Heart Shaped Box and 20th Century Ghosts by Lucien Spelman

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 I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you have enjoyed BBT Magazine this past year or so. Keep and eye around the website for new changes, and be sure and check back in the winter about our new anthology line!

 

 

 

 


Frostbitten (Frostbiten, 2006)

Filed Under BBT, Soylent Screen, Jef Taylor, Vampires, Frostbitten, Frostbiten, Swedish Vampires, All the damn vampires, Talking Dogs, Monstervision | 4 Comments

 

 
Movie Reviews with BBT Critic Jef Taylor

 

 

You can understand why a teenaged girl wouldn’t be happy about moving to northern Sweden.  She doesn’t have any friends, there’s snow everywhere, and the sun won’t come up for another month.  Plus there’s all the damn vampires.

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