BAVA WEEK: Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)
Using some of the same sets from Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis, Mario Bava (Blood and Black Lace, Black Sunday) created a masterpiece with this film. Featuring Reg Park (who appeared in four Hercules films and was considered a mentor to Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Christopher Lee (The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Wicker Man, everything good and right […]
BAVA WEEK: Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970)
Do you need to love, trust and care about the hero of the movie? Mario Bava is here with Hatchet for the Honeymoon in an attempt to craft a story where the hero is the absolute worst person in the entire film. Meet John Harrington. He’s 30, runs a bridal dress factory, lives in a gorgeous villa […]
MARIO BAVA WEEK STARTS TOMORROW!
Starting tomorrow, we’ll be spending a week celebrating one of our favorite directors and his remarkable filmography! Here are the movies we’ve picked to share with you: Hatchet for the Honeymoon: Fashion. Oedipal complexes. Murder. Wedding dresses. And even a meta wink to past Bava films. This one truly has it all. Hercules in the […]
Popcorn (1991)
Sometimes, you end up loving a movie for what it could be way more than for what it is. Popcorn would be one of those films. Buried somewhere in its slasher framing story and four films within a film, there are some great ideas that should have been explored further. And the closer the film […]
Exorcism (1974)
Anne (Lina Romay, muse of this film’s director, Jess Franco) is a performance artist who specializes in recreating Satanic rituals and spicing them up for old rich folks to savor. She also writes for a magazine, Garter and Dagger, that appeals to people who like this kind of dreck. Turns out that Mathis, one of the […]
DRIVE-IN ASYLUM ISSUE 10 IS COMING NEXT WEEK!
Among the many tasty offerings in the new issue, your humble author was proud to contribute a way too long article about Rats: The Night of Terror! Ordering info soon!
Unmasked part 25 (1989)
I wonder, quite often, why hasn’t there been a new Friday the 13th for nearly 9 years? Then I watched every single one of the films, back to back to back (and back) and I can tell you that they’re endless repetitive movies that ended up relying on gimmicks to get by. Is there a new […]
Fade to Black (1980)
A movie about a socially awkward, totally obsessed film fan whose love of old films borders on the obsessive, with nights filled with movie after movie after movie? This one hits a little too close to home. Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher, Breaking Away) works in a Los Angeles film distributor warehouse by day and watches […]
Don’t Go In the Woods (1981)
Some slashers take their time getting to the first kill. Others start James Bond style, with a kill or two at the beginning before settling into the formula. Don’t Go in the Woods starts with murder and never stops. There are characters you’re supposed to get behind. But mostly, there are just random people who are killed […]
The Sect (1991)
Between Ed Sanders’ book The Family — which examines the origins of Manson’s Family — and Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil — which suggests that a worldwide network of Satanists is responsible for the Manson family and Son of Sam murders, we’ve come to accept the notion of an organized army of evil. But who are they? […]
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