Goalie (2019)
Legendary Detroit Red Wings goalie Terry Sawchuk played in the days where protective masks were considered unmanly. At the time of his death, he was the all-time leader among NHL goalies with 447 wins and with 103 shutouts. These records have only been surpassed by five players and his shutouts by only one person, but […]
Box Office Failures Week: Sextette (1978)
Sextette is exactly the type of movie that this site was created to talk about. For years, I’d read about it in the Medveds’ Turkey Awards books and since then, I’ve pretty much decided that the Medved brothers have no idea what fun is all about. Surely, Sextette can’t be as bad as people say it is, […]
Heaven’s Burning (1997)
Heaven’s Burning was Russell Crowe’s last Australian film until 2014’s The Water Diviner. He plays a getaway driver who goes on a deadly road trip with a runaway Japanese bride (Youki Kudoh, Rush Hour 3) pursued by both hired killers, her jilted husband and the police. Robert Mammone, who played Blanka in Street Fighter and opposed “Stone […]
Box Office Failures Week: Spring Break ’83 (2007)
If you ever wondered: Is there a film with an almost $20 million dollar price tag that the acting and technical unions had to shut down because none of the actors or crew were paid? Is there a film that still hasn’t been released—thirteen years after it completed production? More importantly: Is there a film […]
So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
In case you thought So Sweet, So Dead wasn’t an amazing title, this movie also has the alternate titles Rivelazioni di un Maniaco Sessuale al Capo Della Squadra Mobile (Revelations of a Sex Maniac to the Leader of the Mobile Team), The Slasher is a Sex Maniac and Penetration, which was used for a U.S. re-edit that also has […]
Night, After Night, After Night (1969)
A Jack the Ripper-type serial killer is loose and it looks like the most obvious suspect is a transvestite judge. Yes, it’s 1969 in London and there’s all manner of kinky goings-on, as this proto-slasher and Argento-predating giallo gleefully shows. It’s directed by Lindsay Shotneff, who also brought you Devil Doll, Curse of the Voodoo and several James […]
The Stendhal Syndrome (1996)
Stendhal syndrome was first diagnosed in Florence, Italy in 1982. However, a young Dario Argento experienced it in Athens as a child, as he climbed the steps of the Parthenon and was overcome in a trance. That’s what it does — the mind is so overcome by artwork that it just kind of goes away […]
The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
Il Dolce Corpo di Deborah, or The Sweet Body of Deborah, is a gorgeous film that embodies the fashionable side of the giallo. It’s directed by Romolo Guerrieri (Johnny Yuma) from a script by Ernesto Gastaldi (Hands of Steel, 2019: After the Fall of New York, The Case of the Bloody Iris, The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh — obviously […]
Covenant (2018)
Ian Parker is a former army lieutenant who learns of the death of his mother, who he’s cut out of her life. Her past is filled with strange behavior and as a result, he’s lived a life cut off from humanity, crashing through bad relationships and struggling through life. Now, he’s returned home to learn […]
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974)
To celebrate his birthday, wealthy Patrick Davenant (Chris Avram, The Eerie Midnight Horror Show, Emanuelle in Bangkok) brings his friends to his family’s unused theater — empty for a century, which is how long his family has been cursed, which in no way is taken from The Red Queen Kills Seven Times. There’s his sister Rebecca (Eva Czemerys, […]
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