The story of Malice begins, through the voice of the youngest of two daughters, with a typical family day until the phone rings and they learn that their grandmother is dead and their mom inherits the dead matriarch’s home. No time is wasted. The family moves into their new home only to quickly learn that their new home is no ordinary home. In fact, it’s damn creepy!
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I got hooked on the plot right from episode one. The creators of this series don’t waste our time with useless scenes. They get right down to the meat and potatoes of the storyline. This is a thriller and so it does require a feel of suspense and fearfulness continually boiling through the plot-line. This show does not disappoint. There were many times that I jumped out of my seat. The CGI is surprisingly good for a low budget show. Bravo!
So, why am I giving this show a half squashed pumpkin? While, I do encourage you to give this show a good try, it it does have its flaws. There are plenty of cheesy moments that cannot be ignored, like how Dad can suddenly shoot a gun with perfect precision right after drinking several beers. Somehow, Alice was able to get hot water for her bath, even in a house that doesn’t have electricity. And, there were some decisions that Dad made, or didn’t make, that were a bit hard to swallow. Plus, the episodes are too short. They could be at least 10 minutes long. 5 minutes is much too short for a show of this sort. We loose that emotional tension that a thriller builds with time.
Still, click the image above and watch this web series. It’s fun. It’s entertaining. I love the teen girls. They are cool characters! And both actresses play them very well.
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Angel Of Death is an action packed series about assassins who are blindly assigned people to kill. No questions are to be asked. Just kill and get out.
Zoe Bell, well known as Lucy Lawless’ stunt woman in “Xena Warrior Prince,” stars as Eve. Bell is well cast in this series. She is a great actor and, it must be said, she works her fight scenes flawlessly.
This New Zealand production is beautiful looking with high quality camera work and post production work. However, this show tries its hardest to be like the movie, “Kill Bill” and yet, it is no where near it. Oh, it’s packed with the same level of violence shown in “Kill Bill” but it takes more than ugly violence to make a wickedly exciting action thriller. Angel of Death lost my keen interest when, in episode 2, Eve recovered miraculously from a near impossible injury to survive from. The way in which they healed her (not to be spoiled in this blog) just made me roll my eyes asking, “Who writes this stuff?” It’s too bad the script is so weak for such an amazingly talented show in all the other areas.
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I give this series a half squashed pumpkin with a STRONG encouragement to check it out, if for no other reason than to watch Zoe Bell at her best – in hard action fight scenes.
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The Dead Hour pays homage to the twisted, creepy genre created by that masterfully classic show, “The Twilight Zone.” Like The Twilight Zone, each episode is a unique, complete story. And like The Twilight Zone, each story is twisted beyond description.
The Dead Hour is a well-produced, high quality production. The stories are rich and well told. The acting is polished. The camera work is excellent.
If you aren’t squeamish, you’ll enjoy this show very much. Who am I kidding? I AM squeamish and I STILL enjoy this show.
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I like that the episodes are meaty (not 5-7 minutes long). The stories are original and well produced. This series is a don’t miss. I most certainly will not be squashing any pumpkin for this show. The Dead Hour’s pumpkin stays fully in tact!
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Cell is creepy with a capital C! The story starts with a man waking up in a cell which, at first, he thinks is a jail cell. Very quickly he finds that he is wrong and that he is also not alone. There is a woman in another cell next to his. It is clear this woman has been in her cell for a long time. She is a broken spirit; too broken to tell the man where he is, not that she really knows, herself.
This series is dark, violent, haunting and addicting. I watched all thirteen episodes thus far, in one night. More episodes are to come, of course. I just hope they come soon. I’m beginning to feel withdrawals already. By the way, I thought I had the plot figured out right away but I was wrong. I love it when plot lines prove my predictions incorrect.
If I have one complaint about this show, it’s this. The episodes are too short and not meaty enough. I want more!
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This web series has rightfully earned a fully unsquashed pumpkin. Bravo! And Encore!
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Haywire is a story about a small town in New York State that finds its citizens acting rather strange after the town is engulfed by a bright, strange light.
The eerie, haunting storyline keeps me intrigued. I certainly jumped at the chance to watch all 5 existing episodes. But I question whether I will jump at coming back to their website to watch the sixth episode, when it broadcasts. First of all, they air one per month. That’s a long wait for any production to expect their audience to endure. Second, the content of each episode is thin which is suspicious to me. My guess is that the plot is short and they are trying to stretch as many episodes as they can. Third, the acting is rather amateurish – which isn’t always a deal breaker when it comes to web series. I’ll forgive bad acting if the story is tight. But this just seems to be one more knock against this one.
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Even with 3 knocks against this show I’m going to give it half a squashed pumpkin and suggest you at least give it a try. Who knows, you could be lucky and read this blog post after all the episodes have finally aired preventing you from having to wait a month for each individual, thin episode to finally air. I’d be curious to hear what you think of this show too.
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This award winning web series is packed full of quick wit from the title to the last sentence spoken in each episode. As a matter of fact, you may need to watch each episode more than once just to capture all the humour cleverly written in the show.
Suck and Moan is a vampire series. Now, before you start to moan thinking ‘not another one’, hear me out. This show is truly one of a kind. Its plot is set around a virus that results in a growing population of flesh eating zombies which threatens the food source for vampires. This has forced a small group of vampires to go to battle against these flesh eaters. Listen, I didn’t write this. I”m only relaying it to you, and as crazy as this plot sounds, it’s tons of fun to watch.
Each episode in this series does not really stand alone. They are each a continuation of the story from the previous episode. So watch them in order and I’ll bet that once you watch episode 1 you won’t want to stop.
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No pumpkin squashed here. Two bloody thumbs up. Hee Hee!
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