SADISTIC FORCE’s JAMES OLIVER Names The Five Horror Movies That Inspired The Band’s Latest EP

The following was written by Sadistic Force frontman and guitarist James Oliver on the heels of the band’s latest release Morbid Odyssey – available here.

Five black thrash songs. Five sick-as-fuck horror movies! Horror movies and literature are my obsession. (I also write horror novels, which you should check out. Shameless self-promotion! What’s scarier than that? Shudder.) I don’t use a pen-name because I don’t give a SHIT, so if you google “James Oliver Horror”, it will bring up my books.

First on the list is the Uzumaki mini-series. While not technically a movie, binge watching all four episodes of this manga adaptation would take less time than watching the average Tarantino movie, so I think it fits. Uzumaki is incredibly bleak, hopeless, and soul-crushing. In other words, it’s awesome!

I seriously wonder about the creator of this work. Is Junji Ito alright? Everything I’ve checked out by him is seriously depressing and really drives home the point that nothing good ever happens. Uzumaki was one of the inspirations for the “PORTRAIT OF TORMENT” music video, which you should check out if you like movies with brutal gore and clever practical effects. And just like a Junji Ito creation, it doesn’t have a happy ending!

Next up is Blood Orgy of the She Devils. “SOFT FLESH FOR THE DUNGEON OF THE DAMNED” actually starts out with a sample from the trailer for this 1973 film. This movie is FILLED TO THE BRIM with hot 70’s babes. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to! For the song’s intro, I actually mashed-up narration from the Blood Orgy trailer and one for another movie called The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism, in which horror legend Christopher Lee portrays a character called Count Regula. Holy shit!

If that doesn’t make you want to stop reading this article and go find the movie (it also has about ten alternate names, including The Blood Demon), I don’t know what will! Both of these flicks come highly recommended, especially if you’re partaking in some bud (the beverage or the sticky herb).

Somebody please edit together a montage of kill scenes from Adam Chaplin with our song “STRIKE AFTER STRIKE” synched up to it and send that shit to me. This Italian action-horror movie is fucking badass and is probably gorier and more violent than anything else you’ve seen. The guy who plays the titular character also wrote and directed the movie and composed the soundtrack. He looks like the album cover version of a member of Manowar.

The production company who made this movie is called Necrostorm (badass name) and they are out of their fucking minds. It feels unnecessary to really get into the plot or what Adam Chaplin is about. It’s about Adam Chaplin and that’s all you need to know. I already pre-ordered a Blu-ray of the sequel Reborn from Hell, which comes out this year. Like Adam Chaplin, “STRIKE AFTER STRIKE” is an unrelenting assault of total ruthless savagery.

The French film MadS from last year is an absolute trip. Just totally fucking bonkers. It was (supposedly) filmed in one take by drug-fueled French people and is hyper-violent, fast-paced, and involves a fuckton of drugs and partying. Sounds sick, huh? “MORBID ODYSSEY” is also all of these things.

The cover art for our new release is based on the title track’s lyrics. That cover alone should make you want to buy a copy of this shit! It’s got a guy standing in a grave smoking a dude’s brain out of a skull bong for fuck’s sake! MadS absolutely rules and is a horror movie about experimental drugs and people doing fucked up shit, thus it makes a perfect pairing with MORBID ODYSSEY.

“Satan is evil, and where evil is, there is no place for the cross.” In Horror Express, a monk loosely based off of Rasputin utters this totally metal to the bone line. In the film, he is saying this is a bad thing. Well I think it’s a rad thing! Therefore, we sampled this line in our closing track “ABNORMAL CRUELTIES”.

The line is just metal as hell and Horror Express beat out a couple other, more graphic, films for the sample that would sit in the middle of this composition. “ABNORMAL CRUELTIES” is a song that the three of us are all very proud of. It’s a song that is inexorably relentless and priest-beheadingly Satanic. But just like Horror Express, it’s executed with finesse and class. Oh yeah, Christopher Lee is in this one too.

Thanks for reading my horror film musings! If you like horror and metal, you should check out an anthology I put together called ROTTEN REQUIEMS that comes out this October! Guaranteed to be the most brutal, poser-castratingly metal book you’ve ever read!