CHILLING CLASSICS MONTH: The Revenge of Dr. X (1967)
It’s been said that this movie is based on a 1950s screenplay by Edward D. Wood Jr., but he isn’t credited. He probably should be — this has his weird hands all over it. Even stranger, the first American video release had credits for a completely different movie, the 1969 Filipino film The Mad Doctor of […]
CHILLING CLASSICS MONTH: Sunburst (1975)
Sometimes the Chilling Classics rewards you with magic. Other times, it assaults you with a film like Sunburst, also known as Slashed Dreams. Robert (Peter Hooten, the original Dr. Strange) and Jenny (Katharine Baumann, The Thing with Two Heads and now a handbag creator) are going up to the woods to find their friend, Michael (Robert Englund), who has left the […]
Dead or Alive (1999)
I have a great plan for anyone that doesn’t want to gain weight over the holidays. Just watch Dead or Alive while you attempt to eat. There’s a chance you may actually lose weight. A lot of weight, depending on how strong your stomach is. If I were to describe the plot of this film, it’d […]
Blood Rage (1987)
Identical blonde twins Todd and Terry are at the drive-in with their mother, who is making out with her boyfriend in the front seat. Seeing so many people having sex — including his mom — from the back seat flips out Terry, who starts killing people with a hatchet. He smears the blood all over his brother, because that’s how […]
The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Wes Craven’s second full-length film — if we don’t include the porn film The Fireworks Woman that he directed as Abe Snake — is a trip through the Nevada desert that he wrote, produced and directed. You can see it as straight-forward narrative or you can choose to see it as a parable on how man […]
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