Matt Donato

Nato And Remy’s Last Stand: The Mother’s Day Edition! (Hey Mom, I Swear I’m Not Insane…)

Whether or not our mothers like to admit it, Remy and I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for them. While I know Remy's taste in horror was in fact influence by his mother, I can tell you my horror obsession has nothing to do with my innocent, Wii-Dance playing sweetheart of a mama. She can count the number of times she's been drunk on one hand, was a total self-admitted goody two-shoes growing up, is almost a legal midget (off by a few inches), loves terrible romantic comedies, and yet she's responsible for this foul-mouthed, whisky slugging, horror movie marathon machine of a son who loves writing about the most f*cking insane shit he can find. My Dad will tell you it's because my Grandmother got me interested in the dark arts while babysitting me when I was a wee-little Nato (he loves telling cheesy jokes about my Grandma being a witch), but in all honesty, I don't have the slightest clue where my love for all things horror came from.

Matt Donato May 16, 2013

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Dead Mine Review

My horror adventures always take me to such interesting places, so I suppose it was only a matter of time before I ended up in an old WWII Japanese underground bunker found in the wilds of Indonesia. Go hunting for Yamashita's Gold they said. It'll be totally safe they said. Well what they didn't say was mutated science experiments still inhabit the mine who aren't too keen on accepting visitors. Damn, the treasure hunting game sure is getting dangerous these days, but it's not that unexpected as Dead Mine is just another "greedy young dick leads a crack team of specialists into a dangerous location looking for riches but instead finds evil monsters who don't take kindly to their presence" film. You know, the usual.

Matt Donato May 14, 2013

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WGTC Weekly Throwdown: What Other Literary Characters Would We Love To See Leonardo DiCaprio Play?

In honor of this weekend's release of Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of The Great Gatsby, the Throwdown gang decided to debate which literary character we'd personally love to see actor Leonardo DiCaprio play. It's not to say he didn't absolutely kill the role of Jay Gatsby, but with so many phenomenal characters that exist in print, it's hard not to dream about Leo bringing another famous literary name to life. It's a shame he's claiming he needs a break from acting for a little while, so there's very little chance we'll see any of these performances happen, but a group of writers can always dream, no?!

Matt Donato May 12, 2013

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The Act Of Killing Review

Our world is full of actual terrors, true stories of entire groups of people being exterminated with extreme prejudice - these are the real horror stories. The stories of racial cleansing, genocide, and power-hungry killings that saw gallons of *real* innocent blood shed. Women. Children. It didn't matter. There are true stories of violence and murder much more disturbing than any horror film ever created, and every once and a while a documentary filmmaker challenges audiences by traveling to destinations less-desirable to tell a story so sickeningly traumatizing it seems more like Hollywood fiction instead of a real point in history. Enter Joshua Oppenheimer and his documentary The Act Of Killing.

Matt Donato May 9, 2013

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Nato And Remy’s Last Stand: Moments In Horror Gaming That Made Us Pee A Little

While horror movies are something Matt and I obviously adore for a multitude of reasons, we would be fools not to take a moment and give some props to some of the great horror games that have come out in the last decade. While horror films are fun, they are passive experiences, which leads us to feel safe, no matter what is happening. A horror game, on the other hand, strips that safety away and places us INTO the moments of extreme horror, showing us just how we would react to such scenarios. It's a wholly encompassing way to experience a medium, especially one as visceral as horror.

Matt Donato May 8, 2013

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Roundtable Interview With Eli Roth On Aftershock

Being one of the first directors to start the "Splat Pack" era, a man Quentin Tarantino jokingly referred to as the "Frank Sinatra of the Splat Pack," Eli Roth's popularity among the horror genre has only risen. Though his only featured directing gigs to date are Cabin Fever, Hostel, and Hostel II, Roth has been busy producing and acting in a slew of different films, his most recent being Nicolás López's Aftershock. Centered around an earthquake which is followed by warnings of an approaching tsunami, Roth plays an American vacationer named Gringo who gets stuck in the chaos and fights for survival.

Matt Donato May 7, 2013

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Errors Of The Human Body Review

Errors Of The Human Body may only be considered a suspenseful thriller, but to me it's straight horror. Why? I'll be completely honest with you all - science terrifies me. I understand the need to always keep learning and create even greater understandings about this big, glorious universe we all live in, but at what cost? Do we really need to be creating super hadron colliders which can smash particles at the risk of creating a black hole which could potentially consume our planet? Think about it, if one measly scientist were to calculate a number wrong to the decimal point - boom, goodbye humanity. "Well the good news is, we discovered a new element. The bad news is, we're all going to die - IN THE NAME OF SCIENCE!"

Matt Donato May 6, 2013

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Sightseers Review

Love is a funny thing, am I right? It makes us do crazy things, things we wouldn't normally do like take risks, be adventurous, think outside the box, kill people - wait, what? Yes, Sightseers is an incredibly dark romantic comedy from director Ben Wheatley (Kill List), written by our lead actors Alice Lowe (Tina) and Steve Oram (Chris), which plays right into Wheatley's horror wheelhouse. Sure, it's not about an obvious hack and slash serial killer or evil monster, but there's still plenty of horror surrounding this seemingly mundane road-trip vacation.

Matt Donato May 6, 2013

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Maniac Review

When I saw Fede Alvarez's Evil Dead "remake" earlier this year, I couldn't believe I was actually watching a horror remake. It was a breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale movement of churning out newer versions of old classics, with little success in the quality department of course. But I thought "surely this instance is a fluke, we couldn't possibly have more than one good horror remake in the same year, right?" Then Franck Khalfoun came along, sternly pimp-slapped me across the face, and said "Matt, 2013 is the year of the horror remake," and after watching his revamped version of Maniac (originally by William Lustig) - I absolutely, wholeheartedly f#cking agree.

Matt Donato May 3, 2013

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Nato And Remy’s Last Stand: Our Favorite Rockstar Horror Cameos

It's always interesting to see which celebrity cultures are obsessed with the horror genre, but the most obvious socialites who partake in horror goodness are musicians. Now the type of musician always differs, because I've seen numerous episodes of Cribs where some hip-hop mogul has a Chucky doll or Leatherface statuette in his house, but the most obvious group of musicians to praise horror are the more hard-rocking metalheads. Hell, looking at the current genre, the band Chiodos has a song titled "Those Who Slay Together, Stay Together" which is about killing the undead with your friends essentially.

Matt Donato May 2, 2013

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