2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 18: A Matter of Degrees (1990)
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films Natural Born Killers, True […]
2019 Psychotronic Scarecrow Challenge: Day 18: Outside Ozona (1998)
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Quentin Tarantino goes off into the dusty, deserted Midwest in this sharply written, existential tale that questions how we deal with regret and loneliness, fate and death at the whims of respected Chicago psychiatrist Alan Defaux, aka The Skokie Ripper (David Paymer; 1981’s […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: Beyond the Gates (2016)
DAY 18. ONLY ON VHS Day: Watch something on true psychotronic format. If you don’t have access to a VCR then watch a movie with a VCR/VHS theme in it. Thanks to the Found Footage Festival, so many people have gotten the chance to see a lost part of the VHS era — board games that […]
Exploring The Weapons, The Hours and The Motives of Slasher Films
This weekend, after literal months of watching slashers prepping for this October’s Slasher Month event, I started thinking about each subsequent slasher as a game of Clue. To wit: How did each person get killed? What holiday or time of year killed them? And why did they get wiped out? Francesco Mazzei’s 1972 giallo lent this […]
Wrestling Slasher Month at Wrestling With Film!
My friend Paul Andolina runs Wrestling With Film, a site that celebrates the crossover between professional wrestling and movies. It’s pretty great — packed with insightful thoughts on these movies as well as interviews with some of the wrestlers who starred in them. You can also check out his Facebook page, which has even more. This […]
Axeman (2013)
About the Author: Paul Andolina is one of my favorite people to talk movies with. If you like his stuff, check out his site Wrestling with Film. He’s doing an entire month of slashers with pro wrestlers in them as we speak. Axeman is a 2013 slasher film about a group of old college friends who […]
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