What do you get when you take a group of attractive medical students, a cabin isolated above a Norwegian fjord, a nasty bit of WWII history, and greedy, undead foot soldiers of doom?  Yep, you guessed it! You get a Zombie Nazi Avalanche . . . from hell!!!  Well, I can only assume Zombie Nazis reside in hell.  I mean, where else could such vile creatures originate?  Dead Snow (2009) directe... more.

I know what you're thinking: Neal, reviewing a video game? And an online Flash game, at that? I can't believe it either. What makes it even stranger is this: on paper, I should hate this game. A robot unicorn in a floating world of rainbows and fairies attempts to make its wishes come true. (Exactly how that happens is unclear, but it involves running really fast, ramming into stars and eating sai... more.

An international cabal of bankers owns the mass media. Oil companies are secretly in the pocket of Cthulhu cultists. And the Boy Scouts are a front for UFO aliens. Conspiracy theories abound, but now you can be at the center of one. Steve Jackson Games' Illuminati! puts you in control of one of the groups rumored to be vying for world domination behind the scenes. Each faction of Illuminati aim... more.

Hello Gaming and Movie fans.  If you have been following the news lately, you probably know that Andrew Koenig, son of actor Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame, recently succumbed to apparent depression and took his own life.  Cinema Death Blog feels saddened by the untimely death of anyone, but especially feels sad at this news for the Koenig family, as both father and son have dedicated their... more.

Okay, so Cinema Death Blog has become known for jumping on board things late in the game and this week is no different.  I have finally gotten around to watching the smash-hit independent film Paranormal Activity (2007 or 2009) directed by Oren Peli.  Unlike most people on this planet who saw it back in October of 2009, I was uncertain I wanted to spend my hard-earned money on this small, gh... more.

Cinema Death Blog wanted to share with you fans of cool poster art and the film Inglourious Basterds this great upcoming charity event for earthquake victims in Haiti.  Quentin Tarantino, The Weinstein Company, and Upper Playground joined forces for this art exhibit of awesome artists doing awesome renditions of poster art for the awesome film.  If you happen to be in L.A. on February 18th, ... more.

For all you fans of the recently released video game Borderlands, I have a cinematic gem from the early 1980's that might help put you in the mood for blasting away some freaked-out crazies. Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983), directed by Lamont Johnson, is an interesting little sci-fi B-movie that just might capture your attention for the 90 minutes you watch it. I warn you ... more.

Okay, confession time: if I have a favorite game, it's probably Cosmic Encounter. At least I'm in good company: Steve Jackson cited Cosmic Encounter as one of the games that influenced his classic Illuminati! Richard Garfield said the same of Cosmic Encounter with regard to the creation of Magic: the Gathering. The game has jumped from company to company - five in English alone - and was enshrined... more.

Okay folks, sometimes Cinema Death Blog simply comes across things that are just darn cool and this little animated film falls into that category! Now, I admit up front that I am a big Star Trek fan, and yes I call myself a Trekkie and not a Trekker, and I am also a big Alien fan but I did not know that what I was getting when I clicked on this film was a kick-ass combo of the two franchises. ... more.

Since last week's column covered Risk, I thought it would be good to contrast and compare Risk with Diplomacy. Both games were first released commercially in the US in 1959, which makes them siblings of a sort, and both games put the player in charge of armies attempting to gain supremacy over the theater of war. And that's about where the similarities end. Instead of being a fraternal twin, Di... more.