Ma (2019)
I tend to gravitate toward the exploitation and horror films of the 1970’s, when situations would make no sense in movies that couldn’t really be classified as anything other than weird. So it’s kind of my dream that a movie like Ma was made in 1974 by S. F. Brownrigg, because then the people next to me […]
The Black Six (1973)
Matt Cimber has pretty much lived a life — he was married to Jayne Mansfield, he created the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling and he directed movies like Butterfly, The Witch Who Came from the Sea and Hundra amongst others. And in 1973, he was able to convince six currently playing NFL stars to appear in a black version of […]
American Horror Project vol. 2: The Child (1977)
We first encountered The Child at a Halloween party thrown at the palatial Mexican War Streets home of Mr. Groovy Doom himself, Bill Van Ryn. While some folks drank in the kitchen or enjoyed the mix of Goblin and My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult blasting in the sitting room, I was entranced by a […]
The Shining (1980)
What else can be said about The Shining that hasn’t been said before? How many times have I personally seen this film and what can I do to add to the conversation? That’s why I held off on writing anything about it, but after watching the new 4K version of the film at the Carnegie Science Center’s […]
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Maybe I’ve seen too many of The Conjuring films now — seven in total with several more on the way, such as a sequel to the excoriable The Nun and The Crooked Man. I even sat through the barely connected The Curse of La Llorona. It’s co-written and directed by Gary Dauberman, who wrote the remake of It, as […]
American Horror Project vol. 2: Dark August (1976)
This is something I’ve never seen before: Vermont rural horror. It has strange art-house leanings and long takes, like a French film directed by Martin Goldman, who also directed The Legend of CENSORED Charley after a career in advertising. It also has an incredibly unlikeable lead, but it was the 1970s. For being the “Me Decade,” […]
Ten movies that were never even released on DVD
We live in a golden age of streaming media, but many of us also realized that we’re living in an era when every movie, no matter how lost, is released to great fanfare in collector friendly packaging, with limited edition slipcase and tons of extras. But there are still films that are lost in the […]
Crown and Anchor (2018)
James Downey (Michael Rowe, Deadshot from TV’s Arrow) is living a life of straight edge discipline due to growing up with an abusive alcoholic father. Meanwhile, his estranged cousin Danny (Matt Wells, TV’s Designated Survivor) has gone the exact opposite path, drowning himself in a dissolute life of crime, drugs and alcohol. When a death […]
Mortuary (2005)
Tobe Hooper’s last US-produced film before his death in 2017 (he also worked on the film Djinn in Emirati in 2013), Mortuary tells the story of the Doyle family, who have moved to Santa Loraina, California to start over again after the death of their father. Now, his wife Leslie (Denise Crosby) and children Jonathan (Dan Byrd, […]
American Horror Project vol. 2: Dream No Evil (1970)
Arrow Video’s American Horror Project is dedicated to “its mission to unearth the very best in weird and wonderful horror obscura from the golden age of US independent genre moviemaking.” The second volume — the first had Malatesta’s Carnival of Blood, The Witch Who Came from the Sea and The Premonition — lives up to that bold […]
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