{"id":8812,"date":"2014-05-14T17:09:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2014-05-16T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T18:58:13","slug":"mindwarping-brain-slashing-bruce-and-angus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8812","title":{"rendered":"Mindwarping Brain Slashing Bruce and Angus"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8822\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mindwarp_German_art_b.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8822\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8822\" alt=\"Mindwarp_German_art_b\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mindwarp_German_art_b.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mindwarp_German_art_b.jpg 225w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mindwarp_German_art_b-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8822\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bruce Campbell ist zuruck!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just posted is an expanded\u00a0 review of Twilight Time\u2019s Blu-ray of <a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=8809\"><strong>Mindwarp<\/strong> \/ aka <strong>Brain Slasher<\/strong><\/a>, Fangoria\u2019s first of three theatrical film productions originally released by Columbia Pictures in their attempt to cash in on the low budget, gory horror wave, but not really giving any of the three films (which include <strong>Children of the Night<\/strong> and <strong>Severed Ties<\/strong>) much P.R.<\/p>\n<p>I kind of remember them going straight to video, and only being aware of <strong>Children of the Night<\/strong> because its soundtrack album was released by one of my favourite old labels, Bay Cities.<\/p>\n<p>The composer? Daniel Licht, the man responsible for the witty scores for TV\u2019s <strong>Dexter<\/strong> (2006-2013), whom I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mrh_cv\/music_interviews\/Licht.htm\" target=\"_blank\">interviewed<\/a> for RM back in 2007. (The <strong>Mindwarp<\/strong> review is also cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/rue-morgue.com\/2014\/05\/steve-barnetts-mindwarp-brain-slasher-on-blu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rue Morgue<\/a>, since the original review was repositioned from a print version to a straight online version.)<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve got several uploads coming shortly \u2013 <strong>Wild at Heart<\/strong> is being rewritten because I\u2019m tying it with another adaptation of Barry Gifford\u2019s <strong>Perdita Durango <\/strong>(1997), based on a character played in WAH by Isabella Rosellini in monkey-brow mode \u2013 and a podcast, a book review, plus a set of film reviews from the 2014 Toronto Jewish Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Some issues with new software wasted chunks of the weekend, and once again reminded me how time evaporates whenever there\u2019s a computer thing that\u2019s not on the right. You research, you fiddle, you uninstall, reinstall, and a day later while futzing around over a morning coffee, you stumble upon the solution that was simple, and not quite staring you in the face, but not hiding in some murky realm, either.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your patience&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Twilight&#8217;s Blu-ray edition of Steve Barnett&#8217;s gory post-apocalyptic film Mindwarp \/ aka Brain Slasher (1992), and quick updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8821,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2773,2571,2562,2563,2772,2765],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Mindwarp_German_art_featured_image.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-2i8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8852,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions\/8852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}