Patchwork (2015) 1h 26m

There's been such an interesting 80's revival happening over time.  Maybe it's starting to taper off a bit, but we've had this odd nostalgia with the uptick of 80's inspired synthwave and all of these remakes of old beloved things or just homages to that time period.  Stranger Things hit that hard, the soundtrack to Drive (which, let's be honest, is fucking great), and the It remake.  I know the original It came out in 1990, but I get some leeway here.  So with a poster like I have posted above, I was expecting some sort of nod or throwback, which I got concept-wise, but it was so much more...

Patchwork is a horror comedy where Dr. Frankenstein hung out with Herbert West and they just happened to have three recently deceased women to combine into one.  However, instead of being of a single mind, each of the three women still exist inside of this creature.  It's kind of like an old episode of Herman's Head only each of them can be in control at the same time.  Their plan is to find out who did this to them, but along the way they turn their investigation into an outright murder spree.

I'm getting this out of the way first, but before the 3-in-1 woman unifies her look, she looks like a genderswap of the anime character Blackjack.  Seriously, look at this shit!

After I got over that revelation I got really into this movie.  There's a reference to Reanimator with a glowing green-filled syringe being the device that reanimates the body, a character playing the original Castlevania and doing the Frankenstein's Monster/Hunchback boss fight, and probably the greatest 15-seconds of film ever with the release of the Owlcat.  The acting is fantastic as our ladies' body movements are jerky and broken in all the right ways.  We're also treated to a wonderfully done rampage section in a frat house where she just puts in ear buds and dances/dispatches douche bags left and right.

You should definitely add this to your must-watch list for horror films if you haven't seen it yet.  It's just a fun time with a great take on body horror.  I will most likely add this film to my personal collection when I have the money.

I give Patchwork 5 surgical staplers out of 5:

Updates from the lab...

Hello from the 30 Days of Plight lab!  So, much like Herbert West, I'm looking to reanimate this blog.  I have come up with a new and more structured set-up.  So here's how it's going to run:

Sunday thru Thursday will continue the typical 30 Days of Plight structure with the random movies from Netflix and reviews from that.

Friday is going to be kind of a grab-bag day.  I plan to use it for reviews on films I may have seen in the theatre or at a film festival, books I've read related to horror, horror themed toys, horror video games, things like that.  I hope this will keep me from breaking up the regular posts but also give me that decent break to talk about something else horror related.  This also gives me a day at the end of a cut to do a recap.

Saturdays are going to be nothing.  I scheduled a day off.  I'm my own boss!

So right now I'm in the process of doing small graphical updates that will be up and running by the time the 30DoP 2.0 launches which will most likely be May 7, 2017.  It's then because I know I have to travel in the next month and I don't want a shitty break in the middle of things.

So with that dear readers, I'll see you in just over a month!