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Mark of Cain: Maneater (2009)

Published July 13, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

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Every morning, Big Gay Horror Fan must look into his cracked mirror and face the many demons that haunt him. Of course, the sounds that emerge from that confrontation are ear shatteringly monstrous, but face them he must!

Similarly, Dean Cain must look into the treacherous past of his character, Sheriff Harry Bailey, in 2009’s forest monster on the loose epic Maneater.

With a mysteriously disappearing wife and a tendency to over-protect his normally inquisitive teenage daughter, Cain/Bailey is even seemingly a suspect in the horrific deaths that are occurring on his watch. The delusion that his obviously dead wife is due to return any moment also makes everyone doubt his grasp on reality, as well.

Featuring several effective stalk n slash sequences, Maneater is best served by the appearances of such veteran character actors as Conrad Janis (Mork and Mindy, The Cable Guy) and Christopher Darga (Scary or Die, Crazy Stupid Love), who is particularly fine as an emotionally tortured local soul.

maneater2Granted, with its grainy, shadow ridden texture, the film does belie its budget – IE: it looks very cheaply made – and while plenty of the nubile wenches whom grace this woodsy (yet bloodied) landscape often doff their tops, there is not a male buttock in sight.

More than anything, much like 2004’s Lost, wherein he received fine notices as a beleaguered businessman, Maneater seems to primarily fit in with Cain’s (who, also, served as a producer here) bid to stretch himself as a performer.

Next up on Mark of Cain: 2006’s Dead and Deader!

Mark of Cain: Post Impact

Published February 8, 2013 by biggayhorrorfan

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Whenever Big Gay Horror Fan is faced with unrepentant gasps of fire, dangerous space aliens, hostage taking malcontents or biological creatures gone mad, he thinks one thing – if only Dean Cain was here!

Yes, after his star making turn as Superman and his mild reporter alter-ego in Lois and Clark (1993-1997), Cain has appeared in countless low budget genre flicks, generally as the well regarded hero. So, as our political, financial and social climates continue on their crazy states of flux, there seems no better time to celebrate the man, the hope, the product of a breathless nation – the mark of Cain!

PostImpact59In 2004’s coldly CGI ridden Post Impact, Cain plays military hard gun Tom Parker. Stationed in Berlin with his wife and young daughter, Parker/Cain is forced to leave them behind by a violently by-the-book superior when an out of control comet threatens the earth’s safety.

Years later, the planet is apocalyptically stressed while Parker/Cain crosses frozen tundra after frozen tundra, along with his faithful mutt, trying to get back to his family. A surprising attack, originating from what was formerly Germany, on a governmental plane gets our hero back into the game – under his hated former employer, of course.PostImpact142

Soon enough, Cain/Parker is showering (with butt discretely hidden) with a sexy fellow officer, getting shot out of the sky, discovering an underground European village of survivalists and uncovering conspirators and plot twists aplenty. Along the way he develops feelings for the comely daughter/scientist of the man who could bring the world back to its former glory and for a young girl found surviving by ingenuity and wits in what was once Berlin. Who says a cheap Sci-Fi, apocalyptic horror epic can’t have family values?

You can check out a bit of Post Impact and its interesting mix of CGI, miniatures and real locales in the trailer, here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAGcoiS9JY0

Then be sure to check back often for more Mark of Cain, as well.

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Until the next time – SWEET love and pink GRUE, Big Gay Horror Fan!