New Year’s Evil (1980)
By 1980, every holiday was taken. All writer and director Emmett Alston had left was New Year’s Evil. It would have to do. TV’s most beloved punk, Diane “Blaze” Sullivan (“Pinky” Tuscadero from TV’s Happy Days) is getting ready to count the night down from a Hollywood hotel. Things are great until Evil himself call, saying that […]
The Demonologist (2018)
Damian Seryph (Leo Wyatt from TV’s Charmed and Sleepwalkers) is a police detective with a haunted past and a head full of visions he can’t understand. As he investigates a series of cult murders, he learns that they worship the four king demons of Hell and are planning on bringing them to Earth to start the Apocalypse. Can he come […]
Blood Theater (1984)
If you’re looking for unique deaths, Blood Theater has them. Fried by a popcorn machine, electrocuted by a film projector, smoke inhalation from burning film and various stabbings ensure that the Beverly Warner Theater — where Xanadu was filmed — is awash in the blood. The only good reason to watch this one is Mary Woronov, who plays Miss Blackwell, who is […]
City of the Living Dead (1980)
If you ever meet me in person, there’s a 90% chance I’ll be wearing a t-shirt of this movie. Therefore, I find it near impossible to be objective about this film. I love it too much. I can only share my adoration with you, dear reader. Alternatively known as Paura Nella Città dei Morti Viventi (Fear in […]
Footprints on the Moon (1975)
Alice Cespi (Florinda Bolkan, A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin) watched a strange film in her childhood called “Footprints on the Moon,” where astronauts were stranded on the moon’s surface. Now, as an adult, the only sleep she gets is from tranquilizers and she starts missing days of her life. Get ready for a giallo that skips […]
Venom (2018)
Directed by Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland, Gangster Squad), Venom has appeared on plenty of worst of lists this year. I held back judgment until I saw the movie. I can sum it up in one word: underwhelming. But after all, who was clamoring for a Venom movie after Spider-Man 3? Who was needing one in 2018? And after the magic […]
Body Count (1986)
If all Ruggero Deodato did was make Cannibal Holocaust, he’d still be lauded — or despised — for his work. But he also directed cop films, like the violent Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man, The House on the Edge of the Park (which owes such a debt to The Last House on the Left that it even has the […]
The Predator (2018)
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Predator? Maybe. I definitely mentioned how much I love Predator 2. Hell, I even talked about how much I like Predators. So when it comes to a reboot of the franchise, it better be something amazing. I’ve heard so many bad reviews of this movie — directed and written by original […]
Last House on Massacre Street/The Bride (1973)
The Bride was once called just that — a title that makes a lot more sense. But after Wes Craven’s The Last House on the Left, we got a plethora of movies renamed to seem close to that film, even if they’re nothing like it at all. Like this one — which is about when you start […]
Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil (1991)
Those Canadians — they’ve made four Prom Night films, starting with, well, Prom Night, where Jamie Lee Curtis confronts disco dancing and a murder in the past. Then there’s the utterly insane Prom Night 2: Hello Mary Lou, where a former prom queen comes back to tempt and murder the children of her classmates. And then there’s Prom Night […]
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