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This movie about mutant alligators packs a mighty punch! Join us as we voraciously tear into Ragin Cajun!  Ragin' Cajun Redneck Gators is a 2013 Syfy original movie directed by Griff Furst and stars Jordan Hinson, Victor Webster, and Christopher Berry. The film premiered on Syfy on September 5, 2013.  Music from zapsplat.com Edited by Fraser du Toit Find us on www.wolfenhaas.com

Reunited again at last! The boys discuss 1971's Requiem pour un vampire.   Requiem pour un Vampire (English title: Requiem for a Vampire) is a 1971 erotic horror/fantasy film directed by Jean Rollin, about two young women who find themselves trapped in a haunted castle ruled by vampires  Music by zapsplat.com Edited and Produced by Fraser du toit Art by: By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28272884

We crack open this nugget of pure awesomeness and tear out the two gooey balls of pure schlock. Read more on our new website!  https://wolfenhaas.com/b-positive/f/eyes-of-the-werewolf---masterpiece-of-schlock-review  Produced and edited by : Fraser Chon-Ji Music from: zapsplat.com

The Beast Within is an inventive and well researched film, and an original take on the traditional werewolf story.   The Beast Within is a 1982 American horror film directed by Philippe Mora and starring Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens, L. Q. Jones, Don Gordon, R. G. Armstrong, Katherine Moffat, and Meshach Taylor. The film is a very loose adaptation of Edward Levy's 1981 novel of the same name. Edited and Produced by Fraser du Toit Music by zapsplat.com

We break our silence on this 1990 obscure classic! Imagine being stuck in a time-loop, doomed to lose your Halloween fling every 22 years.   Rockula is a 1990 American comedy film directed by Luca Bercovici. The story centers on a vampire under a curse (the tagline is: "He's a vampire that hasn't scored in 400 years—tonight's the night!"). It was written by Bercovici and Jefery Levy. Dean Cameron stars as the vampire Ralph LaVie, Toni Basil plays Phoebe LaVie, Ralph's mother, and Thomas Dolby is the villain Stanley. Bo Diddley has somewhat more than a cameo as Axman, playing in Ralph's band, incidentally named Rockula. The director of photography was John Schwartzman, later the DP on Seabiscuit and Saving Mr. Banks. Edited by Fraser du Toit Music by zapsplat.com

This week we break down this Shaw Brothers Classic.   Five Deadly Venoms ('五毒') also known as Five Venoms is a cult 1978 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Chang Cheh, starring the Venom Mob, with martial arts choreography by Leung Ting, and produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio, about five kung-fu fighters with unique animal styles: the Centipede, the Snake, the Scorpion, the Lizard, and the Toad. The film was listed at number 11 on Entertainment Weekly's Top 50 Cult Films list  Edited by Fraser Chon-Ji Music from zapsplat.com

We kick off our celebration of Hong Kong legends the Shaw Brothers with 1975's Black Magic!  Black Magic is a 1975 Hong Kong horror film directed by Ho Meng Hua and starring Ti Lung, Lo Lieh, Tanny Tien, Lily Li and Ku Feng. A sequel to the film was released in 1976.  Music by: zapsplat.com Sound and editing by: Fraser du Toit

This week we discuss 1981's The Demon, kind of starring Cameron Mitchell. The Demon (also known as Midnight Caller) is a 1981 slasher film starring Cameron Mitchell and Jennifer Holmes and directed by Percival Rubens. Music by: zapsplat.com Sound & Editing by: Fraser du Toit

This we discuss Night Drive (2010), a film that's kind of about poaching, and kind of about Muthi murders. Directed by Justin Head.  A group of tourists taking a night time tour of a game reserve become stranded when their vehicle breaks down. However, wild animals are the least of their worries.  Music by: zapsplat.com Sound & editing by: Fraser du Toit

We kick off 2019 with our first ever South African B movie! 1987's City of Blood by Darrell Roodt!Also, happy birthday to host Louis! A medical examiner investigating a series of prostitute murders discovers that the culprit is an ancient tribal witch doctor come back to life. Music by:zapsplat.com

2018 is at an end! Celebrate a tremendous year with us as we wade into a Bloody New Year! In 1959, a group of party goers celebrate at a New Year's Eve party at a hotel before mysteriously disappearing. In the 1980s, friends Lesley, Janet, Spud, Tom, and Rick are spending the day at a seaside funfair, when they run afoul of local hooligans after rescuing the American tourist Carol. Running from the gang, they take a boat out to sea, only to run aground and be left stranded on an island.[1] Stumbling across the hotel, they look for help, only to find it abandoned, with no sign of staff or guests, except for ghostly figures that appear and disappear in the distance.After some time, apparitions and monsters appear around the hotel, with even the building itself attacking the group, slowly picking them off, some who become zombies. With only Carol and Rick remaining, the ghosts of the 1959 party appear and explain that the hotel is stuck in a timewarp due to a scientific experiment gone wrong, leaving the undead

Happy forking Christmas/Holidays! Remember to Be Positive in your life this festive season!This week we discuss Bill Goldberg's Santa's Slay! Get ready for evil Santa! On Christmas Eve, the Masons, a wealthy yet dysfunctional family, are sitting down to Christmas dinner when Santa Claus (Bill Goldberg) comes down the chimney and kills them all in a variety of ways. The cast for the opening scene includes bit roles by several famous Jewish actors.Riding on his sleigh driven by his "hell-deer", Santa arrives at Hell Township and decimates the locals in various holiday-themed ways. In one of his kills, Santa slaughters the occupants of a local strip club, frequented by Pastor Timmons (Dave Thomas), a crooked minister, who manages to survive the massacre. Later, Santa murders the local Jewish delicatessen owner Mr. Green, (Saul Rubinek), using his own menorah.Meanwhile, teenager Nicholas Yuleson (Douglas Smith) is living with his crazy grandfather (Robert Culp), a crackpot inventor who has built a bunker in their

This week we continue our Holiday special with a decidedly not-Christmassy movie, Gremlins 2! Gremlins 2: The New Batch is a 1990 American comedy horror film, and the sequel to the 1984 film Gremlins. It was directed by Joe Dante and written by Charles S. Haas, with creature designs by Rick Baker. It stars Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Haviland Morris, Dick Miller, Jackie Joseph, Robert Picardo and Christopher Lee; additionally, the film features Tony Randall and Frank Welker providing the voices for two gremlins. The story continues the adventures of the creature Gizmo (once again voiced by Howie Mandel), who spawns numerous small monsters when wet. In the first film, Gizmo's offspring rampaged through a small fictional town. In Gremlins 2, Gizmo multiplies within a skyscraper in New York City. The new creatures thus pose a serious threat to the city should they be able to leave the building, and much of the story involves the human characters' efforts to prevent this disaster.As w

We kick off our Holiday season special with Gremlins! Featuring special guest Maude Sandham! Gremlins is a 1984 American comedy horror film directed by Joe Dante and released by Warner Bros. The film is about a young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. This story was continued with a sequel, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, released in 1990. Unlike the lighter sequel, Gremlins opts for more black comedy, balanced against a Christmastime setting. Both films were the center of large merchandising campaigns.Steven Spielberg was the film's executive producer, with the film being produced by Michael Finnell and written by Chris Columbus, drawing on legends of gremlins going back to World War II. The film stars Zach Galligan and Phoebe Cates, with Howie Mandel providing the voice of Gizmo, the main mogwai character.Gremlins was a commercial success and received positive reviews from critics. However, the film

This week we wade deep into the 80's in search of King Cobra aka Jaws of Satan!Join us as we sink our fangs into this one! Also, check out 4 Seas 1 Family for Fraser's interview on Coping as an Expat!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8svi9GHAfUc While being transported via train to a carnival, a king cobra is let out of its box by Satan, and it kills two railroad workers. The snake flees into the night, under the influence of demonic powers. It eventually heads toward a small Alabama town, ready to strike in the name of evil. Meanwhile, the town's Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. Tom Farrow (Fritz Weaver), discovers that his ancestor was none other than St. Patrick, who drove the snakes from Ireland. Now, Farrow must do the same. Music by:zapsplat.com

This week we get funny with 1994's Funny Man by Simon Sprackling! Join us as we delve into this gem of 90's schlock. Funny Man is a 1994 British comedy-horror film written and directed by Simon Sprackling. When Max Taylor (Benny Young) wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance (Christopher Lee) in a game of poker, little does he realise that the game is far from over. After moving into the ancestral home with his family the nightmare begins after Max spins a wheel of chance, (a wheel with four parts, two saying win, and two saying lose). It lands upon lose, and this awakens a demonic creature that lives in the soil of the ancestral home. Soon, one by one, Max's family are murdered by this strange creature known as the Funny Man (Tim James), a Mr Punch-like jester with a varied and imaginative repertoire of homicidal techniques and a highly irreverent sense of humour. This sense of humour is shared with the audience. He is the only character that addresses the audience directly, as in a pantomime. He kills off

It's Halloween! Happy Samhain, All Hallows Eve or Werewolf day (whichever you prefer)! We celebrate this the spookiest of days by watching The Howling! The Howling is a 1981 American horror film directed by Joe Dante, and starring Dee Wallace, Patrick Macnee, Dennis Dugan, and Robert Picardo. Based on the novel of the same name by Gary Brandner, the film follows a television newswoman sent to a remote mountain resort after a near fatal incident with a serial killer, unaware that the residents are werewolves.The film was released on April 10, 1981 and became a moderate success, grossing $17.9 million at the box office. It received generally positive reviews, with praise for the makeup special effects by Rob Bottin. The film won the 1980 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film while still in development, and was one of the three high-profile wolf-themed horror films released in 1981, alongside An American Werewolf in London and Wolfen. Over the years, The Howling has accumulated a cult following. Its financial succes

Week 4 of Werewolf appreciation month brings you the delightful, An American Werewolf in Paris! Join us as we relive this... masterpiece... An American Werewolf in Paris is a 1997 comedy horror film directed by Anthony Waller, co-written by Tim Burns, Tom Stern, and Waller, and starring Tom Everett Scott and Julie Delpy. It follows the general concept of, and is a loose sequel to, John Landis' film An American Werewolf in London (1981). The film is an international co-production between companies from the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, and the United States.The title of this film has its roots in the production of its predecessor; when production of the original London film ran into trouble with British Equity, director John Landis, having scouted locations in Paris, considered moving the production to France and changing the title of his film to An American Werewolf in Paris and unlike its predecessor which was distributed by Univeral, it was distributed by Buena Vista Pictures. Music from https://www.zaps

Week 3 of Werewolf Appreciation month finds us in bed with Another WolfCop! Alcoholic werewolf cop Lou Garou springs into action when an eccentric businessman with evil intentions seduces Woodhaven's residents with a new brewery and hockey team in this outrageous horror-comedy sequel. Music from https://www.zapsplat.com 

WolfCop claws its way onto B Positive this week as we break down what might just be the best movie ever made! WolfCop is a 2014 Canadian horror comedy film written and directed by Lowell Dean. The film was released to Cineplex Odeon theatres nationwide on 6 June 2014.[1] It is the first film chosen for production from the CineCoup Film Accelerator. It stars Jesse Moss, Amy Matysio, Jonathan Cherry, Sarah Lind, Aidan Devine, Corrine Conley and Leo Fafard. The plot revolves around an alcoholic small town cop who transforms into a werewolf after being cursed. However, he still possesses his human intelligence in wolf form and continues his work as a police officer even in wolf form.[2] WolfCop was released to UK DVD and Blu-ray on 13 October 2014. Music from https://www.zapsplat.com