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Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. pd187, who made this list, said “one of the only movies about cryptids/folkloric beings that “gets it.”” Wendigo serves as the second entry in writer-director Larry Fessenden’s thematic trilogy updating classic monster myths […]
Directed by television and genre veteran Ted Post (The Baby), this sun-baked Phoenix thriller sits in a fascinating middle ground—too stylish and dark for standard network television, yet abruptly dumped onto NBC as a Movie of the Week before finding a strange second life on home video via notorious British distributors like VIPCO. Far from […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
Before 1978, the Hong Kong martial arts scene was stuck in a rut, trying to clone the fierce, stone-faced tragedy of Bruce Lee. Enter Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow, the brilliant directorial debut of Yuen Woo-ping. This is the absolute masterpiece that shattered the mold, introduced the world to slapstick kung-fu comedy and turned a […]
Director Shuji Kataoka’s S&M Hunter is a dazzling, wildly inventive pop-art bit of weirdness that pushes the boundaries of cinematic style and good taste. But far from a mere exploitation gimmick, this film is a meticulously crafted manga-style fable that blends traditional Western motifs with avant-garde theatricality, standing as a fascinating artistic artifact of the […]
Originally released internationally as Yellow Faced Tiger and also known as Karate Cop, Slaughter In San Francisco was directed by Lo Wei and produced by Golden Harvest. This 1974 Hong Kong-American production carries an incredible piece of cinematic history on its shoulders: it was originally written as a vehicle for Bruce Lee before his tragic […]
Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. Spanning five centuries, Hellbox revolves around a mysterious, ancient metal box rumored to contain a literal piece of Hell. The cursed artifact weaves together intersecting storylines across time, dragging an eclectic mix of […]
La bestia uccide a sangue freddo (The Beast Kills In Cold Blood) was made by a director — Fernando Di Leo (Blood And Diamonds) — who claimed that he “didn’t have Dario Argento’s talent of believing in the absurd” and claimed that as he written the script himself “…I knew it would not be a […]
When the 1980s ninja boom swept across the globe, it didn’t just entertain audiences—it birthed a distinct cinematic art form. Directed by Teddy Page (under the alias John Lloyd) and written by its own principal villain, Ninja Warriors stands as a magnificent monument to international action filmmaking. Shot against the lush, sun-drenched backdrop of the […]
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