2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11 Option 2: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before. Herman Cohen started his climb up the show business ladder from the lowest rung, working as a gofer and usher at Detroit’s Dexter Theater at the tender age of 12. By 18, he’d be the manager. His career would take him from being […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11: A Bucket of Blood (1959)
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before. A Bucket of Blood aspires to art as much as it does junk. Written by Charles B. Griffith, whose name you can associate with films as disparate as Smokey Bites the Dust, Barbarella and Death Race 2000, it’s a tale of trying to figure out how to […]
EXPLORING: Slasher Remakes
If there’s one thing Hollywood can’t get enough of, it’s mining the past to try and one-up what has come before. With the resurgence of the slasher after 1996’s Scream as well as a world where teenagers riled the box office, all manner of once-dormant properties now had a new lease on life. The only difference is that now, […]
Motel Hell (1980)
Kevin Connor directed the Amicus-produced From Beyond the Grave, as well as several fantasy films for that studio and others in the 1970’s that included The Land That Time Forgot, At the Earth’s Core, The People That Time Forgot, Warlords of Atlantis and Arabian Adventure. It was almost made by Tobe Hooper, which seems like the […]
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