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Codex Atanicus
Codex Atanicus is a three story anthology by Spanish director Carlos Atanes. Before watching the movie I never heard of the guy, but the introduction video on the DVD by one of his regular actresses Arantxa Peņa made me realize that I'm in for a hell of a ride. Experimental, bizarre, sick, strange - these are some of the words that describe the stories contained in Codex Atanicus. The anthology is opened by a 20 minute short from 1995 called Metaminds & Metabodies. I am really not into this kind of experimental videos, but I will try to summarize. It opens with a girl singing in the club. Everything looks ultra underground and the girl is connected with some wires to the walls. Strange people are watching her...
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Movie Review: Necro Files, The

Story
The movie start out with a not so beautiful chick stepping out from the shower and gets attacked by a cannibal rapist (yes a cannibal rapist). He stabs her and starts to eat her when two cops arrive and kills the cannibal. Later on a satanic cult are chanting satanic hymns on a graveyard and when one of the members starts urinating on a grave, the cannibal rapist appears woken to life once again from the chants and not the urin (or so I would think). And once again the bloodthirsty cannibal man is on the loose.

Comments
Doesn't the cover look cool? At least I thought so several years back and bought the movie only for that reason, well a small reason was for the title too. Anyway I wasn't really surprised that it was a shitty movie, more disapointed over the fact that it was a really shitty movie, still with a cool title though.

Great story huh, it's actually so bad at times it's funny but most of the time it's just unbelivable bad. It's of course VERY low budget and the actors don't really deserve to be called actors, although like I said before some stuff is actually funny to a certain degree but it doesn't make up for the rest.

It starts off pretty good and the first 20 minutes are ok to watch, after that almost everything turns to crap and at some places it's actualy really hard to sit through, not because it's too gory or scary but just because it's so horribly bad.

We also get to see a demon baby flying around carried in the air by a visible string and you can tell that the baby is a doll from a 1000 feet away. I usually have no problem whatsoever with low budget horror and sometimes it can of course even be great but this is just too much.

Final Comments
I give it 2 out of 10 for the humour parts which are extremely few but I can't honestly see how anyone could like this. There's also a sequel out there but that one I will never lay my hands on.

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Necro Files, The

ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Psycho Zombie Love Butcher
MOVIE YEAR: 1997
DIRECTOR: Matt Jaissle
WRITING CREDITS: Todd Tjersland
GENRE: Horror, Comedy
CAST: Isaac Cooper, Steve Sheppard, Gary Browning
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 72 min

RATING: 2/10

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