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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 […]
PRC (Producers Releasing Corporation) was the undisputed king of keeping things fast and cheap. Their film, The Mad Monster, asks a very simple question: What if we won World War II by injecting our soldiers with wolf blood? Dr. Lorenzo Cameron (George Zucco) is a scientist with a grudge. After the academic community, the press […]
Originally pitched to Playboy as an episodic late-night horror anthology, the network deemed it too bloody. So directors Patricia Miller and the late Mark Shepard did what any true guerrilla filmmakers would do: they edited three hours and twenty-eight minutes of camcorder madness and unleashed it straight to tape via Film Threat Video. What you […]
Harry Carson (Earl Hindman, Wilson from Home Improvement) has made it to his hotel room the night before his class reunion, and he gets wasted, then dies of a heart attack. But as you’d guess from this being on Tales from the Darkside, the story isn’t over. An angel and a devil argue over his […]
Here’s the hype: “The long-awaited, official continuation of the 1985 punk-horror masterpiece has finally arrived to claim Halloween night. Marketing Macabre is proud to announce, on behalf of DragonFlix, the exclusive streaming and digital release of Return of the Living Dead: Aftermath on October 31, 2026. As a direct feature-film sequel to the beloved original […]
I love an R-rated comedy. We don’t get enough of them, and hey, I grew up on lemon popsicles, by which I mean teen sex comedies, as well as Police Academy and all of its many descendants. Remember when that gang of Vermont state troopers won over our hearts by meowing, playing the license-and-registration game, […]
There is no defense for teen sex comedies and I don’t care. That’s what I feel like talking about, the movies where twentysomething youths all converge on a beach, a frat party or a fart contest to start making out, making babies and getting in trouble. Youth is wasted on the young. This episode, I’ll […]
Directed by Victor Halperin (White Zombie, Supernatural) Torture Ship is based (extremely loosely) on Jack London’s 1899 short story A Thousand Deaths. This brief 64-minute oddity blends sci-fi, pre-code-style gangster tropes and maritime melodrama into a surprisingly fun, breezy exploitation flick. Irving Pichel stars as Dr. Herbert Stander, a rogue physician obsessed with proving that […]
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