The House On Sorority Row (1983)
This film was inspired by the 1955 French film Les Diaboliques and was originally titled Screamer and Seven Sisters by its writer and director Mark Rosman. It also has the alternate title House of Evil, but none of those are as evocative and interesting as The House On Sorority Road. Vincent Perronio, who often works with John Waters, […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 8: Roller Blade (1985)
DAY 8. AFTER THE DISASTER: Will we rebuild, adapt or move on? If there’s one thing this site has been about as of late, it’s been post-apocalyptic films. Just take a look at this Letterboxd list that keeps track of all of them — if a movie has been made about the end of the […]
Night of the Creeps (1986)
“The good news is your dates are here. The bad news is they’re dead.” Has any movie so perfectly been a synthesis of the gore aesthetic of the 1980’s and the science fiction angst of the 1950’s? I doubt it — Night of the Creeps takes on those genres and adds zombies to the mix, making […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7 Option 2: Daikaiju Mono (2016)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? We already did War of the Gargantuas today, but you can never get enough giant monster movies, much less one that is endlessly self-referential! Japan is in a mess to say the least. The weather is all screwed up, volcanoes have stopped erupting, there […]
The Prey (1980)
For some reason, old Hollywood actors often show up in slashers. Jackie Coogan, whose career stretched from silent films to playing Uncle Fester on The Addams Family to, well, The Prey appears in this, his last film. Coogan also was the reason for the California Child Actors Bill, the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: War of the Gargantuas (1966)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? Today’s theme is close to my heart. As a young kid in the 1970’s, WFMJ-TV 21 in Youngstown, Ohio played monster movies every night at 1 AM (or later, if Tom Snyder was on). They only had so many Godzilla films before they’d […]
The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982)
Inspired by Friday the 13th, Stephen Carpenter and Stacey Giachino wrote the script for this film while students at UCLA under the title The Third Night, which later became Death Dorm. We start with a man running from someone, then hiding in the bushes, before he’s attacked from behind and murdered. Yep — get ready to […]
Fantasies (1982)
Middletown, U.S.A. is the biggest show on TV. Sure, it’s controversial, but the ratings are through the roof. The only problem is that every time a major villain gets any traction, they end up dying for real. Last year, we interviewed Amanda Reyes from Made for TV Mayhem. She recommended this film and it’s been on […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: Necropolis (1987)
DAY 666. THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP: A mass, ritual or summoning scene celebrating the Dark Prince. Holy shit, this movie. The poster art for Necropolis has called out to me many times and I’ve just never found the time. Now, I’m sad that I didn’t get to this sooner. This movie can’t be from our Earth. […]
The Hills Have Eyes II (1984)
Seven years after the original film, Wes Craven would return to the desert, bringing more folks back into the near apocalyptic territory lorded over by the mutants from the first film. In fact, if you liked that movie, you’re in luck, because clips from it play throughout this one’s running time. Wes Craven has disowned […]
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