2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 16: Goodbye, Franklin High (1978) and Hanging on a Star (1978)
Day 16 Rock ‘n’ Roll Miscreants: Give some screen time to the punks and/or metal heads (and Lane Caudell gives us a two-fer!) The horror-centric webzine Bloody Disgusting recently posted a story about a gritty, low-budgeted horror film, Getaway Girls (2020), written and directed by Toran Caudell who, as a teen, found success as an […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 16: Thunder Alley (1985) and Second Time Lucky (1984)
Day 16 Rock ‘n’ Roll Miscreants: Give some screen time to the punks and/or metal heads (and Roger Wilson gave us a two-fer: for it’s all about the watch options) Confessions of a Fan Ask any male teenager haunting the racks of video stores in the ‘80s who their two favorite actresses were—this writer included—and […]
Slasher Top Tens: Mark Begley from Wake Up Heavy
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mark Begley is the host of Wake Up Heavy: Recollections of Horror which, according to his daughter, is The World’s Greatest Horror Movie Podcast. (He may have told her to say that.) Guests have included Mike White from The Projection Booth Podcast, poet Ronald Dzerigian, Simon Fitzjohn, Jerry Smith, and the one and […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 16: duBeat-e-o, aka Du-Beat-e-o (1984)
Day 16 Rock ‘n’ Roll Miscreants: Give some screen time to the punks and/or metal heads Strap yourself in. Get ready for the rock ‘n’ roll adventures of film and television visionary Alan Sacks (aka Alan ‘duBeat-e-o’ Shapiro) and the film debut of Joan Jett. (And fair warning: this review is admittedly unhinged . . […]
Scream (1981)
Wait — am I finally stooping to reviewing the film that single-handledly led to every bastardized MTV slasher wanna-be that littered the shelves of video stores as they died a sad death and even now enraged me as I scan past them on my streaming services? No. Nope. Not at all. Instead, we’re talking about […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 16: Stunt Rock (1978)
Day 16. Rock ‘n’ Roll Miscreants: Give some screen time to the punks and/or metal heads. “It’s super human, super music, super magic and super amazing! You’ll be compelled over the edge of sight and sound and under the spell of mind-boggling action and music! Pushed to the danger zone! It’s a death wish at […]
Effects (1980)
Pittsburgh is more than just my hometown. If you believe a source as vaunted as Joe Bob Briggs, we’re also the birthplace of modern horror, thanks to George Romero and friends creating Night of the Living Dead right here (well, actually Evans City, 45 minutes north of the city). Horror may have laid dormant for […]
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