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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 PeŮa 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: Skull and Bones

Story
Two college students decide that their lives are boring enough to exact some revenge on some Ivy school kids in town.

Comments
Alright now the story starts with Nathan and Justin, two gay playtoys, in a discussion about how their lives have no meaning and that they need to spice things up. Nathan, extremely obsessed with horror movies and serial killers, suggests drugging a straight guy from their class, then raping him. So they do, yet find that what they used to knock him out with was far too strong, which makes him puke then crap himself and die. The two guys stuff him in an old couch and have it picked up and thatís the end of that, or is it?

Still feeling the rush from killing the boys decide they want to do it again, only this time they want to rape some Ivy boys instead. One by one each of four snooty Ivy kids is taken away to find their eternal fate. Will anyone catch on to the killings and go after Nathan and Justin or will they continue to kill?

Skull and Bones Skull and Bones


Now let me tell you all, Iíve been writing reviews for a long time now and every now and then I watch movies that qualify for what I like to call ďThe Chopping BlockĒ which is a wood stump that I take shitty movies to be cut to shreds by a hatchet. The last movie that made it there was The Grand Horror, the terrible zombie film where nothing happened and I fell asleep. Anyways this movie qualifies to go on the block. In other words this movie was TERRIBLE!

Not only was the acting terrible but it was repetitive, drawing the same conclusion to all four boys, though varied at the very end. The special FX were minimal and amateurish and all around I just found myself bored and fast forwarding. I mean come on, doing voodoo to make a sex zombie slave?

Now hereís where Iím supposed to insert a line that justifies the type of sexual humor that this movie presented, but personally itís not going to help this review.

In all I think itís great that the gay community puts effort into producing horror films, I just donít think T.S. Slaughter has any talent, or his actors. Itís played out like some fucked up horror comedy but it just wasnít funny.

Final Comments
I personally donít see how it got the good reviews it has so far but in my opinion I feel I lost time in my life watching this film that Iíll never get back. If someone gives you this movie as a gift they must really hate you.

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Skull and Bones

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MOVIE YEAR: 2007
DIRECTOR: T.S. Slaughter
WRITING CREDITS: T.S. Slaughter
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Derrick Wolf, Michael Burke, James Stover
COUNTRY: USA
RUNTIME: 73 min

RATING: 1/10

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