Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
After Easy Money, Saturday Night Live veteran James Signorelli directed one more film. This one — starring Cassandra Peterson as her Elvira character. In 1981, six years after Sinister Seymour, the producers of LA’s Fright Night decided to do another show and asked Vampira — Maila Nurmi — to help them with the project. There were creative differences — supposedly […]
Christopher Robin (2018)
My wife wants to make a supercut of me crying at movies. This would be incredibly bad for my pro wrestling tough guy image, seeing me sobbing like a baby at the absolute dumbest things in movies while she asks me why and I reply, “Because it’s nice.” I also cry at things like coffin […]
Night of the Comet (1984)
When he was concepting the idea for this film, writer/director Thom Eberhardt (Sole Survivor) met several real-life teenage girls while filming a special for PBS. He asked them how they’d relate to the end of the world and they answered that they’d see it as an exciting adventure, with dating being the only downside. That […]
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
The first time I watched this movie — the first of hundreds of viewings, mind you — I realized: this was made by people who love zombie movies as much as I do. Now, the intervening years may have diminished my zombie adoration, but I still love this film. It takes what most of the cast […]
The ‘Burbs (1989)
Screenwriter Dana Olsen wrote a script called Life in the ‘Burbs that he based on his own childhood. Growing up, he learned that what seemed like a normal life from the outside revealed a world of psychotic people. He said, “As a kid, it was fascinating to think that Mr. Flanagan down the street could turn out to be […]
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
Jeremy Capello (Robert Sean Leonard, Dead Poets Society) is a teenager in Houston who may have the attention of the school’s hottest girl, Candy, but he really has a strange crush on band geek Darla. Dude, I get it. I would feel the same way. But he also has a vampire woman named Nora (Cecilia Peck, […]
2050 (2019)
As early as the 1980’s, Church of Satan founder Dr. Anton LaVey advocated the use of Artifical Human Companions, saying, “These humanoids will be constructed to be as realistic as possible, and available to anyone who can afford one. Recognizing that the human animal often raises himself up through the denigration of another, this would […]
There’s Nothing Out There (1991)
Made before Scream, There’s Nothing Out There satirizes the same horror movie cliches but goes even further, presenting a story where some of the characters are aware that they’re in a movie, even using a boom mic to swing away from the movie’s amphibian monster. Seven teens head up to a cabin on the lake for spring […]
Transylvania 6-5000 (1985)
When two tabloid reporters from The Sensation — Jack Harrison (Jeff Goldblum) and Gil Turner (Ed Begley, Jr.) — are sent by Gil’s dad (Norman Fell) to get the story of a lifetime in Transylvania. It seems that the old man has a videotape of Frankenstein’s monster chasing two men and he wants to tell his readers […]
Mars Attacks! (1996)
In 1962, Topps put out a card series called Mars Attacks! Kids loved them. Why wouldn’t they? Every card shows horrific depictions of humans, Martians and animals shredded, blasted and annihilated into oblivion, along with plenty of implied sexuality. Parents went crazy and the cards were pulled from the market, but not the memories of the monster […]
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