PODCAST ALERT: Crackpot Cinema
Mike McPadden — who we interviewed about his book Teen Movie Hell — has a new podcast that we think our readers will love. Here’s the first episode: “For the maiden voyage of the SS Crackpot, Mike McPadden and Aaron Lee reflect on their past as HUSTLER magazine pros with four films dedicated to the “men’s […]
#NoJoke (2019)
In #NoJoke, singer Andrew Cole sets out to convince his musical idols to help him make a song for victims of bullying. He’s joined by Jeff Goldblum, Slash, Patrick Stewart, Lemmy, Chad Smith, Jane Lynch and more, who share their talents and their sometimes painful experiences with him. From writer/director Manfred Becker, #NoJoke chronicles Andrew’s […]
Demons 6 De Profundis (1989)
Oh man, where do I even begin in trying to make sense of this movie? It’s not a sequel to Demons, no matter what the title tells you. It was called Edgar Allan Poe’s The Black Cat in America, when it most assuredly has nothing to do with that film. And somehow, it was nearly called De […]
Demons 5: The Devil’s Veil (1989)
Oh Lamberto Bava…here we go again. A group of skiers on the Swiss Alps fall into a chasm opened during an avalanche, which kills one of them named Bebo, played by Michel Soavi, who can’t seem to get away from any movies in the Demons series. Soon, they find a metal mask — whoops, this happens so […]
Demons 3 (1991)
Hitcher In the Dark. Nightmare Beach.The Man from Deep River. Eaten Alive! Cannibal Ferox. Ghosthouse. Iron Master. And throw in even more — Eyeball, Spasmo, Orgasmo, So Sweet…So Perverse and A Quiet Place to Kill. Man, I love Umberto Lenzi and his films. I didn’t even mention his crime films! Originally known as Black Demons, this was Lenzi’s last horror movie. In […]
Making Montgomery Clift (2018)
Classic film star and queer icon Montgomery Clift’s legacy has long been a story of tragedy and self-destruction — the slowest suicide in show business and a “tragic beauty” or “beautiful loser.” He was a gorgeous man whose twenty-some movies place him in the same rarified air of sex symbols like James Dean and Marlon […]
Knives Out (2019)
Rian Johnson has jumped genres throughout his career — the noir Brick, the comedy of The Brothers Bloom, the science fiction of Looper, the big blockbuster that was Star Wars: the Last Jedi and now Knives Out. He also helmed an episode of Breaking Bad that won him a directing Emmy. Since 2005, Johnson has had this Agatha Christie-influenced film in […]
Demons III: The Ogre (1989)
Following the success of the film Demons and Demons 2, Reiteitalia would announce a series entitled Brivido a Series Giallo, which would be five made-for-TV movies by Lamberto Bava. Of the announced five, only The Ogre, Graveyard Disturbance, Until Death and Dinner With a Vampire were made. The script, written by Dardano Sacchetti, is pretty much the original script for The House By […]
Demons 2 (1987)
Let’s just assume that the events of Demons actually happened, as this movie does. Released just seven months after the original, this movie opens with the residents of a high-rise apartment building watching a movie dramatization of the events that took place in that film. They watch as several teenagers trespass into the closed-off city that […]
Episodes 2 and 3 of Ghouls Across America!
Get ready for two new episodes! Episode 2: Joe and Alex travel to Louisville, Kentucky to hang out with their pal Roger Braden, who runs the Facebook groups Valley Nightmares and Spikes Pit. While they’re in town, they also hit up the Louisville Slugger Museum & Factory, pop in on Colonel Sanders at the Cave […]
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