The Asylum

November 3, 2017

Cinemark And The Asylum Present Bad Girl

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The name of The Asylum is typically associated with crazy B-movies like Sharknado, but next Thursday they’re trying something different with Bad Girl, a simple grounded thriller with no giant mutant animals or 90s CGI to speak of. (Not that we don’t have an appreciation for such things around here.) Amy returns home to a house she doesn’t know to adopted parents she doesn’t care for in a country town where there’s nothing to do following a stint in a juvenile corrections center. She’s done something terrible and she’s capable of much worse. Despite the love and support her parents provide, Amy plans on escaping. To make matters worse local girl Chloe is everything she is not; in looks, manners and behavior. Their attraction to each other is immediate and it will have dire consequences for all. Bad Girl is the latest Asylum film to be offered in Thursday Nights At The Asylum, a partnership between the studio and Cinemark theaters that brings Asylum movies to the big screen for

October 19, 2017

Pop Geeks Reviews The Asylum’s Zoombies

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Johnny Caps here. I was recently asked to review the movie Zoombies, an Asylum release from 2016 which is screening tonight, October 19th, at Cinemark Theaters as part of their screening series of films from the studio, written about recently by our own Peter Paltridge. I’ve certainly heard of The Asylum’s work, and a lot of the word has been negative, but in my opinion, Zoombies works on its’ level, the level being that of a B-movie. The movie is about Eden Wildlife Zoo, a wildlife park that’s home to many endangered species, including a large last-of-its’-kind gorilla named Kifo (Ivan Djurovic). It’s run by Dr. Ellen Rogers (Kim Nielsen), who takes care of her daughter Thea (LaLa Nestor) at the park. Several interns are working at the park prior to opening, including new security guard Lizzy (Ione Butler), yuppie-like Gage (Andrew Asper), troublemaker Amber (Brianna Joy Chomer), muscular primate worker A.J (Aaron Groben), and wacky-shirt-wearing fast talker Ricky (Isaac Anderson). A virus gets loose that starts with the zoo’s monkeys,