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The Manster— also released as Soto no Satsujinki (The Two-Headed Killer) — stands as one of the most delightfully bizarre entries in mid-century creature-feature history. Foreign correspondent Larry Stanford (Peter Dyneley) is nearing the end of his assignment in Tokyo, eager to return home to his increasingly impatient wife, Linda (Jane Hylton). His final assignment […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was on the site for the first time on October 10, 2019. New Zealand was ready to represent in the slasher boom, thanks to this bonkers entry into the canon. It’s so violent that it was banned in Australia, a country that was originally made up of convicts. Director David Blyth’s film […]
Seddok, l’erede di Satana (literally translated as Seddok, the Heir of Satan) was renamed Atom Age Vampire in America to cash in on the sci-fi horror craze, despite having virtually nothing to do with the atomic age beyond a loose scientific footnote. It was directed by Anton Giulio Majano and written by Majano alongside Gino […]
“The body is gone…but The Head lives on!” That’s what brought them out in theaters in 1960 to see this on a double bill with The City of the Dead, I guess. What they got was a German film — originally known as Die Nackte und der Satan (The Naked and the Satan) — redubbed […]
Put on your finest 80s ski gear and grab a cup of cocoa, because this isn’t your grandmother’s cozy mystery. Well, it is, but someone accidentally swapped the script with a slasher. Season 5, Episode 4: Snow White, Blood Red (November 13, 1988) Jessica Fletcher heads out to the luxurious Sable Mountain Lodge to hit […]
Also known as Bakterion, Nightmare Killing, and even Zombie 4 in Greece, this film was directed by Tonino Ricci under the pseudonym Anthony Richmond—the same guy who served as Lucio Fulci’s assistant director on White Fang and Challenge to White Fang before giving us A Man Called Rage, Raiders of the Magic Ivory, Encounters In […]
We often refer to movies as “Brownriggian” when we watch films all night on Saturday nights with the Drive-In Asylum Double Feature on Facebook Live. There’s no better example of what this word means than S. F. Brownrigg’s 1973 shocker Don’t Look in the Basement AKA The Forgotten AKA Death Ward #13. Dr. Stephens, the […]
Directed by Argentine filmmaker Hugo Fregonese, this adapts Marie Belloc Lowndes’s famous 1913 Jack the Ripper novel, The Lodger. While it treads ground previously walked by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927 and John Brahm in 1944, Fregonese injects enough shadowy noir aesthetic and eerie Victorian tension to make it good. And he wastes no time setting […]
On a weathered farm at the edge of a fading small town, Aisling (Alexandra Dowling) is carrying a weight far too heavy for her young frame. Living with her grandparents, Bud (Ted Levine, The Silence of the Lambs, Monk) and Teresa (Becky Ann Baker), her days move slowly, the nights even slower. But under the […]
This brings together the old and new of Jackass for one last film, as Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee Man, Preston Lacy, Dave England and Danger Ehren, along with Poopies, Zach Holmes, Jasper, Dark Shark and Rachel Wolfson. It brings back the old — even a young Knoxville shooting himself in the chest with […]
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