Half Moon, A Hooker and a Werewolf

What if "My Dinner with Andre" was a horror film...a werewolf film?  Would Siskel and Ebert have still fawned over it?  Instead of Andre, the role was switched with a sultry, scantily clad whore?  Right. Siskel would have been fine with that, but not Ebert, probably. Today we have that film. The 2010 Jason Toler film, starring the 'adult' film star Tori Black, "Half Moon." A lot of conversation, but also some passionate pre-marital sex and dismemberment.  Sounds like "Mystic Pizza, " I know!

Rose (Black) is a sultry...whore!  Her pimp Kevin (Torey D. Sutton) is a mean one and he has rules. Immediately, Rose breaks the rules, steals another whore's trick, and ends up in a motel room with a handsome guy from Eastern Europe, Jacob (Marek Matousek). They talk, and he feeds her a nice dinner.  He's mysterious and apparently part gentleman. Rose kind of likes him. When they get down to the pre-marital sex, it is the most amazing Rose has ever had. Then they talk some more and Rose finds duct tape, handcuffs, tranquilizers, syringes, and a gun in the bathroom.  Concerned they are to be used on her, she takes the gun and confronts Jacob.

Even after Rose ties Jacob to the chair, the conversation continues. Rose calls Kevin who shows up, pummels Rose, and demands Rose get the combo for this guy's safe and get out all the money.  Now Rose, with a gun, tries forcing Jacob to give her the safe combination. Jacob insists he has a condition and the money is needed to pay a doctor to cure him.  Rose is skeptical...but soon she won't be.  What happens next?  You can probably guess, but the strong part of this film is Tori Black who oozes seduction and primal bacchanalia in every scene she is in.

Will Jacob get loose from his binds and tear up Rose?  Will  Jacob get loose from his binds and make more pre-marital sex with Rose?  Will Kevin come back and force the issue?  The cheese factor is terrific in this film and Mr. Matousek is terrific as the exotic hunk with a problem.  If the cast does not talk your ear off, you will enjoy the sex, gore, and violence of "Half Moon."

Cannibal Troll, Monster vs. Lesbian Babes

As if the title did not tell you everything you need to know. This English offering decides to not only push the alphabet agenda, it also pushes every other envelope it can. This film delves in the uber-taboo and the fate of Lizzy (Megan Purvis) is one you may not believe as it plays out in front of you on the silver screen. With a cue from "A Serbian Film," our feature today presents us the disgusting and revolting...but we are endeared by the troll (Zuza Tehanu) and his plight.  Now let us look at 2021's "Cannibal Troll," directed by Scott Chambers and Becca Hirani.

Yep, a cannibalistic troll rules a section of the woods and if you wander in, he'll eat you. Before he does that he will put you through that old classic fraternity boy ritual of tying you up, and making you eat your girlfriend...or worse.  Worse? Yep. You'll see. Okay, Cassie (Georgina Jane) is about to marry a guy...ick! That's what her bestie thinks. Ava (Nicole Nabi) had a wild lesbian encounter with Cassie and wants her. Also along for a camping trip is sultry lesbian Yara (Barbara Dabson), the pregnant Lizzy, and Cassie's mom, Emma (Kate Sandison). We have already met the troll as he made some nubile babe eat her boyfriend...literally. The four go on the hike with lesbian sexual tension exploding.  Emma is naive, but Ave does hope to get Cassie back.  

See where this is going?  The troll finds them and makes mincemeat out of them with his bow and arrow and an axe.  The opportunity for Cassie to eat Ava, or for Ava to eat Cassie is right around the corner... literally...okay, and figuratively. Yara? A babe...sadly, she'll meet many of the arrows shot by the troll. Emma? Not worth mentioning.  Pregnant Lizzy?  Horrifically, the troll has unique plans for her and... well, you'll see, if you don't cover your eyes. Now Cassie has a chance to man-up, figuratively, and literally.  Ava increasingly professes her love to Cassie, fortunately the troll always comes by interrupting these scenes. Enough of the plot, when this film ends, the alphabet agenda will not be the talking point this movie presents, rather it will be what happened to the pregnant Lizzy.

Just what will befall Lizzy and her unborn baby?  Will Ava succeed in making Cassie face her true identity?  What deference will the troll show to these two babes from a "marginalized community"?  Will the social statement by the moviemakers justify what happens to Lizzy and her unborn baby?  You decide.  For a shocking and taboo film, see "Cannibal Troll."