The House of the Devil (2009)
I love that this movie starts with this crawl: During the 1980s over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive Satanic Cults… Another 30% rationalized the lack of evidence due to government cover ups… The following is based on true unexplained events…” With this burst of white on black type, The House of […]
Daughters of Darkness (1971)
Daughters of Darkness is a good title, but its French nom de plume, Les Lèvres Rouges, is so much better. Look — if you’re going to have a 1970’s vampire movie, it should probably be a lesbian vampire movie while you’re at it. This one is Belgian. And director Harry Kumel claims that he based […]
Re-Animator (1985)
Herbert West is amazing from the moment he walks into this movie. That’s all due to Jeffrey Combs, who owns every movie I’ve ever seen him in, like Castle Freak and The Frighteners. Back when he was at the University of Zurich Institute of Medicin, he brought his dead professor, Dr. Hans Gruber (yes, the same name […]
Blood Feast (1963)
I’m proud to say that Herschell Gordon Lewis was born in the same town as me, Pittsburgh, PA. He was lured from a career as an educator into being a radio station manager and then, well, advertising got him. I can relate. I’ve spent the better part of 25 years doing the same. But then Lewis […]
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
I haven’t heard more people upset about spoilers since the Star Wars prequels, so please consider this sentence the spoiler space you very well may need if you don’t want to learn more. Then again, I’m going to discuss the idea of this film more than the actual movie itself. Avengers: Endgame is the blockbuster of […]
On the Trail of Bigfoot (2019)
Between our Bigfoot week of films, ten Bigfoot films to watch list and interview with The Weirdest Movie Ever Made author Phil Hall, we’ve really covered sasquatches, skunk apes and abominable snowmen over the last few months. Now, we’ve been sent Seth Breedlove’s On the Trail of Bigfoot to check out. This six-episode series was filmed in fourteen U.S. […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama catchup!
We’ve sadly reached the end of another drive-in weekend. That feeling of pulling away from the Riverside Drive-In is the most palpable sadness that I know, realizing that it’ll be five months plus until I’m back, eating great food, looking through videos, loading my trunk full of beer and staying up way too late. The […]
Madman (1982)
Madman Marz isn’t Freddy or Jason or Michael Meyers or even Leatherface or maybe even Chucky, but dammit he exists. He exists! Originally based on the upstate New York urban legend of Cropsey, the film’s premise and slasher were both changed at the last minute once the production team discovered that The Burning was filming […]
Speed Racer (2008)
As a kid, I was totally obsessed with Japanese culture. In the late 1970’s, we had Godzilla, Gamera, Johnny Sokko, Ultraman, Battle of the Planets, Starblazers and Speed Racer all on TV at the same time. The thing is, I was the older brother who always felt like the screw-up, so Racer X was my […]
Faust: Love of the Damned (2000)
Brian Yuzna produced Re-Animator and From Beyond before directing his own film, the completely insane Society. Keep in mind that the same guy who created these films also wrote Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. The character of Faust comes from the comic book created by David Quinn and Tim Vigil. I was shocked that this movie was made, because the series […]
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