Daughters of Satan (1972)
John Hollingsworth Morse was a noted film and television director responsible for an eclectic variety of U.S. television series from the 1950s through 1980s, starting with the Star Wars precursor, Rock Jones: Space Ranger, and the still-in-runs Adam-12, The Dukes of Hazzard, and McHale’s Navy. Whenever you watch old World War II film clips—especially the […]
Bunkheads (2018)
Created by Will Gong, directed by Lauren Klixbull and produced by Gabriel Reiter, Bunkheads is a self-distributed short-form series starring Josh Covitt (The Mindy Project), Carly Turro (Homeland), Khalif Boyd (Criminal Minds), and Chris O’Brien (Rosewood) as roommates who are forced to live together in a bunker during a zombie apocalypse. This random group includes Dani […]
Landing Lake (2017)
Shot in Super35mm in Trentino, Northern Italy, and the UK, director Cesare Pollacci Libardi di K’s aspires to be “cocktail of The Thing and Rabid,” according to the film’s PR materials. Well, you can’t fault the hyperbole, as those are big goals to shoot for. The truth is, there’s a lot of wandering the woods […]
Exploring: Video Nasties Section 2 (non-prosecuted films)
We started telling the story of video nasties in this article, discussing how the UK media was obsessed with them destroying the children’s morals. The section 1 films that we covered were successfully prosecuted. Now, we’re moving on to section 2. Any movie seized under Section 2 would make its dealer or distributor liable to […]
The Toy (1982)
The Westgate Cinema in New Castle, PA wasn’t a fancy or clean theater. Yet for most of my childhood, that’s where we saw films for $1 before 5 PM, with my family often sneaking into multiple showings or even more than one film a day. The Toy was one of those films, a movie lost in […]
Weird Science (1985)
As John Hughes ruled the 1980’s with six films about teens, this was the first time that he moved from some level of realism to complete fantasy. Named after the 1950’s EC Comics title — producer Joel Silver even paid for the rights to the name — Weird Science seems on the surface that it will […]
American Killing (2016)
Jeb’s cartoon is on the verge of cancellation, so the studio sends him and his writers to a house in the mountains to write the entire next season as fast as possible. However, Jeb’s controlling personality and obsessive work ethic ruins things immediately. And when he starts to plant cameras all over and call people on […]
Clickbait (2019)
Let’s lead this off with the director’s statement on the film: “Great horror films find ways to create physical manifestations of abstract fears and anxieties. Modern popularity culture imposes a certain pressure on younger people to create complex, performative identities, and to fearlessly face the consequences of the resulting fracturing of their self-image. We wanted […]
Wade In the Water (2019)
The main character in this movie — referred to as Our Man in the credits — is never named. He works from home, gets in arguments with nearly everyone he does meet and has no friends. His life changes forever when he opens a package filled with images that upset him. Now, he must take […]
Desecration (1999)
Whereas I usually bemoan so many of the low budget efforts that we come across as of late, a lack of funds doesn’t necessarily mean a bad movie when you’re blessed with a wealth of intelligence and inspiration. Such is the case with writer and director Dante Tomaselli’s 1999 effort Desecration, which began its life as […]
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