SLASHER MONTH starts tomorrow!
October is almost upon us and you know what that means… It’s time to go crazy watching horror movies. Not just any horror movies. We’re talking stalk and slash. Awesome kills. Tom Savini. Prowlers, mutilators, phantom killers and the blackest eyes you’ve ever seen. Get ready for two slashers a day, all October long. I’ve […]
Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
It’s unfortunate that Wesley Barry’s honorable director-producer ambitions through his Genie Studios—portraying a post-apocalyptic society that, to save humanity, fuse man with machine to create human-like androids from freshly dead human corpses, then deals with their creations’ development of cyber-theology and a subsequent worker’s revolt—grossly exceeded this film’s restrictive budget. Ultimately, Creation of the Humanoids, […]
Docteur M (1990)
While not a household name in the U.S., director Claude Chabrol (with films like Bluebeard and 1975’s Innocents with Dirty Hands) is revered in his homeland—and throughout Europe—alongside other prominent, “mainstream” filmmakers birthed from the ‘50s French New Wave: Francois Truffaut (1966’s sci-fi Fahrenheit 451) and Jean-Luc Godard (1965’s sci-fi Alphaville). Inspired by German Expressionist […]
Mad Shelia 疯狂的希拉 (2016)
On February 28, 2016, George’s Miller’s beleaguered, long-gestating fourth film in the Mad Max-franchise swept the 88th Academy Awards with ten Oscar nominations and, deservingly, won six for its technical prowess. Mad Max: Fury Road not only surpassed all other nominated films for the evening; it broke the record for the most wins for an […]
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