100 Best Kills: Decapattack! (2020)
This year’s Fantastic Fest at the Alamo Drafthouse is quite different than any before, as folks are virtually watching it. But for a dedicated homebody like me, this has been a great experience, getting to see so many of the movies I usually only read about and find later at the same time as others. […]
Ivansxtc (2000)
Shot at 60i fps on the Sony HDW-700A HD video format digital camera, which proved problematic for theatrical distribution, this film was originally intended to be a Dogma 95 movie. It’s a rough satire on Hollywood, filled with booze and excess, and comes from director Bernard Rose, who you may know from Candyman and Paperhouse. It’s also […]
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (2019)
Made with talent from Spain, Estonia, Ethiopia, Latvia and Romania — yet shot in English — Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is honestly unlike any movie you’ve ever seen before. It’s a cross between exploitation cinema, surrealism, web videos, strange animation and no small amount of Phillip K. Dick all in one more, […]
Crumbs (2015)
Candy (Daniel Tadesse, who has worked with director Miguel Llansó on four different projects) is a small man under a large sky that is filled with a hovering spacecraft that surely must be dead as it hovers above. Yet since he was young, he dreamed of being on that ship. Candy knows that the ship […]
La Noche del Ejecutor (1992)
Dr. Hugo Arranz (Paul Naschy!) celebrates his fiftieth anniversary with his wife and daughter before he finds himself cosplaying as Paul Kersey from Death Wish after they are both assaulted and killed while his tongue is cut from his mouth. He survives. And he learns to work out. No, really. Within minutes of running time, Hugo […]
Beast from Haunted Cave (1959)
Filmed at the same time as Ski Troop Attack and released on a double bill with The Wasp Woman, this Monte Hellman movie would mark the first of his many projects with Roger Corman. Hellman would say, “What interested me about it was that it really wasn’t a monster movie. Roger liked Key Largo very much. I […]
Bionic Boy (1977)
Oh man, this movie. An Interpol agent and his entire family — minus their young son — are all killed. A wealthy industrialist who that agent once saved is in turn saved, made better, stronger and faster, then gets his revenge. That boy, Sonny Lee, is now the Bionic Boy. Bionic Boy takes place in […]
Astro-Zombies (1968)
Look, if you’re going to do the work to make unliving body parts into unstoppable killers, do not make them stoppable by giving them the weakness of having a flashlight shined into their brains. Ah, who cares! We should all dream for a life like Ted V. Mikels, who lived in a literal castle in […]
The Black Report (1963)
This is the second Yasuzô Masumura movie I’ve watched this week, a director whose work that until now I’d never explored. The next case of Akira Kido (Ken Utsui) will determine whether or not he has earned a promotion. In this film, unlike American movies, the case within court is all that matters. With elements […]
Alien Addiction (2018)
Riko lives in Waikato, New Zealand, which is as close to the middle of nowhere as it gets. While nearly every day is the same, things change when two aliens land and become his friends. However, an alientologist has been hunting the extraterrestrials and wants to reveal them to the world. Alien Addiction was written […]
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