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The Streets – A Grand Don’t Come for Free
This concept album is the greatest concept album since The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust. I realize that’s a big-ass statement; pretty ballsy of me to say considering Dark Side of the Moon released a year after Ziggy. But this arrogant grime-electro-hop has me by my heartstrings. Mike Skinner wastes no time throwing the listener down a rabbit-hole of vulnerability, distrust, and anger. And the critical song to flip the album from stoned-apathy to the aforementioned emotions is “Get Out of My House.” I think as a female myself, it just kills me a little inside, in the funniest of ways. Like…dudes are so stupid sometimes and I absolutely love that Skinner wrote a song that illustrates this so beautifully. Cheers to him for telling it exactly like it is. (That’s not to say that chicks aren’t completely out of control, we are.) As far as the music itself, Skinner’s voice is perfection. He’s got that Brummie accent, a little bit lazy and a little bit swallowed. But sexy and something that calls for your attention. His Britishisms make me feel warm and fuzzy, and the repetitive nature of the beats make it easy to get sucked into the entire story of the album. And if you don’t fall in love with his monologue in the last minute of the song, there’s no hope for you. It really all comes down to Skinner being a loveable jackass with sick beats.
A gnarly infection threatens to claw its way out of a moving camper in the first trailer for Shudder’s claustrophobic Hellcat.
The feature debut of writer/editor/director Brock Bodell, who previously edited the Fantasia title Ultrasound, makes its debut on Shudder on August 14.
In Hellcat, “Lena wakes up in a moving camper trailer with a horrifying wound. She’s warned by the driver that they have one hour to get to a doctor, or she’ll succumb to an unimaginably awful fate. As the pain sets in and reality begins to fray, who should really be afraid?”
Dakota Gorman (Natural Disasters) leads the cast that also includes Todd Terry (“Breaking Bad”), Liz Atwater (The Other People), Jordan Mullins (The Bikeriders), and James Austin Johnson (“Saturday Night Live”) in a voice role. Bodell also produces alongside Andrew Duensing and Nate Eggert.
Hellcat made its world premiere last summer at Fantasia. I wrote in my review, “Hellcat is a bit of a Trojan horror that defies easy classification, by design. Bodell’s sneaky debut feature is occasionally too sparse in its worldbuilding in its bid to preserve the mystery, but not enough to detract from the thrilling road thriller that transforms into a completely left-field type of horror we don’t get nearly enough of. The stripped-down tribute to a classic horror staple catches you off guard in more ways than one, marking Bodell as one to watch.”
In other words, there’s a lot more than meets the eye to Hellcat‘s simple infection setup, delivering plenty of surprises along its bumpy road of horrors.
Check out the trailer and poster below and add Hellcat to your watchlists asap.
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