Slasher Top Tens: Derek Direction
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: In my other life as a professional wrestler, I’ve been lucky to team with Derek Direction over the last year as The Grindhouse — along with Meg Meyers, Christian Noir and Beastman. Derek and I got along right away as we have a shared love of movies and a similar outlook on wrestling. […]
Hide and Go Shriek (1988)
The poster for this says it all: In the tradition of Friday the 13th and Halloween… Notice: It doesn’t say from the makers of. Or from the people who brought you. Also known as Close Your Eyes and Pray in the U.K., this movie is all about a bunch of teens having a graduation party in a […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Pink Plastic Flamingos (2017) and Project Skyborn (2014)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things This 24th day of Scarecrow Video of Seattle’s Psychotronic October Scarecrow Challenge of 31 movies in 31 days is tailor made for the binge-watchable sci-fi films at DUST (make your own anthology film!). Their portal features science fiction shorts from emerging filmmakers obsessed […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Ugetsu (1953) and Kwaidan (1964)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things (two-fers allowed) My Dr. Jekyll promised that my celluloid Mr. Hyde would not spree a master thesis portmanteau for this Scarecrow Challenge with an embarrassing display of my obsessions for the British anthology oeuvre of Milton Subtosky and Freddie Francis. And my nostalgia […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: From A Whisper To a Scream (1987)
DAY 24: Short Attention Span Theater: Watch some shorts or anthology things. Jeff Burr and fellow director Kevin Meyer dropped out of USC to finish their American civil war drama Divided We Fall. Bur would follow that up with this film, which somehow got Vincent Price on board. So how’d that happen? Burr would tell […]
Ghostkeeper (1981)
Filmed in Banff, Alberta and using the Canadian tax shelter rules that have produced so many of our favorite films, Ghostkeeper rises above its unstable finances and near-unseen theatrical run to become a fun piece of somewhat forgotten slasher fun. This one is all about the Wendigo, even if it spells the monster’s name Windigo. It’s […]
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