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Do you hear that? Yeah, it’s the sound of a million of furries masturbating in front your local movie theater screen as they watch James Cameron’s Avatar movie. Don’t worry though, for every furry that’s turned on by the giant blue cat people in the movie, there’s at least five other folks in that same movie theater eye-humping the special effects on the screen so hard you can practically hear a Velcro-like ripping sound every time they have to blink. I realize it sounds crass to say such things out loud, but I swear I’m only doing it to prepare you both mentally and emotionally for what you’ll encounter you when you enter that soggy dungeon down that street to watch one of the most gorgeous action movies of the past year.

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Atelier Annie is a wonderful RPG experience with plenty of engaging content to entertain both first time RPG players and long time fans of the genre. The story line was very fun and cute with plenty of likable characters who aid Annie in her quest to be the most successful alchemist on Sera Island. The adorable graphics and above average quality of the voice work and music add greatly to the game’s charm.

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Sand Serpents isn’t going to when any awards, but it’s a decent way to kill an hour and half. Despite being a B-movie, the special effects are at least several notches above the drek that normally appears on the SyFy channel every weekend and the acting was passable most of the time. The story of a group of soldiers being terrorized by giant underground earthworms in the mountains of Afghanistan is really nothing new since Kevin Bacon did is better and with a bigger budget back in the 90’s with Tremors. Still, I enjoyed myself even though I wish the film had spent a bit more time actually dealing with the titular sand serpent menace rather than spending valuable film time on increasingly repetitive battles with Taliban terrorists.

Oh, that reminds me, it was quite refreshing to watch a horror movie that didn’t bash the military or our mission in Afghanistan while still taking the time to depict the Afghani people as normal people who are NOT all terrorist sympathizers. This middle of the road approach was a nice pace to the preachy anti-war, anti-military, global warming propaganda that’s been so pervasive in the horror film industry as of late. Thankfully, it appears that you can still make a silly low budget movie these days without including that kind of retardness.

Bottom Line:

Sand Serpents is a passable B-movie that with better than average production values compared to previous SyFy channel productions. It’s not going to set your world on fire, but the unintentional camp and the lack of any sort of heavy handed political brow-beating made it far more enjoyable than I expected it to be. I suggest you watch it off Netflix’s instant queue as I did or wait for it to air on the Syfy channel again.

Final Score: 3 out of 5 stars
Reviewed by: LC1
Review Format: Netflix streaming video via Xbox Live

Monster Island is a rather dark zombie novel that ditches the usual quasi-scientific causes for a zombie apocalypse in favor of a more supernatural themed story drenched in blood and gore. This is written well enough to distinguish itself from the hordes of similarly themed novels that currently line the shelves of bookstores everywhere, but it never rises above being anything other then average for a variety of reasons.

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Anyone who has read this site for any length of time knows by now that we here at Otakugaijin love all things zombie. Whether it’s books, games, comics or films, if it’s got zombies in it, we’re interested. If we’re lucky, we sometimes find a hidden gem of rotted goodness. Other times, though, we’re not so lucky and all we end up with is a fistful of putrid sadness. The film, Undead, definitely falls into the latter category.

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