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Entries tagged with 'Pakistan'
Posted Jun. 16, 2008,
Paki-Splatter: Hell's Ground!
By Dennis Dermody
Hell’s Ground, the first gory horror movie from Pakistan is coming out on DVD, and it's an enjoyable if familiar tale of a group of friends who lie to their parents so they can pile into a garishly-painted van and drive to a rock concert. Along the way they run into mutating villagers, infected by contaminated water, who attack the van. Then they pick up a weird hitchhiker who’s carrying a dismembered head in his satchel. And if that isn’t enough they run out of gas and get attacked by a weird figure wearing a blood-spattered burkha swinging a medieval-looking spiked ball on a chain. Director Omar Ali Khan joyously borrows from scores of American horror classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Night of the Living Dead, but there’s still a delightfully offbeat foreignness to the Paki-splatter that makes for gruesome good cheer.
Posted Jan. 8, 2008,
Pakistani Cutie Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
By Mickey Boardman
Is Mr. Mickey the only one who's been talking about how hot the son of Benazir Bhutto is? Bilawal Bhutto Zardari is only 19 and already the leader of the Pakistan People's Party, which is frankly cuckoo crazy, but par for the course in an Asian subcontinent where political dynasties are the norm. Sadly his much-disliked father is the caretaker/regent. Meanwhile, Time Magazine tracked Bilawal down via Facebook, the preferred social networking site of PAPER co-founder David Hershkovits. Here are some photos from the the site. It turned out there was also a fake Bilawal Facebook page too which shows he's really made it!!
Photos from Facebook