Psych-Out (1968)
Dude, Richard Rush has sure made some disparate movies. There’s Thunder Alley, Hells Angels on Wheels and The Stunt Man, then there’s Air America and Color of Night. But he also made this, which reminds me that if I was alive in 1968, I would have died young. Jenny (Susan Strasberg) is a deaf girl looking for her brother Steve, who […]
Last Days (2005)
When considering the legalities of music publishing and the licensing of music for films—especially a film shining an unfavorable light on persons and corporations connected to Kurt Cobain’s estate, a biographically-accurate (and not an inspired-by-events) screenplay about a Generation X’s “Jim Morrison” seems a production impossibility. The best explanation of this screenplay-to-film improbability of a […]
Bankaku Rokku (1973)
If there’s one thing I love — this site is really about the many things I love, but indulge me — it’s movies with girl gangs up against horrible odds. The Japanese sukeban genre — delinquent girl — isn’t just up my alley. It’s the entire city block. The Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro […]
The Point! (1971)
The Point! was the sixth studio album by Harry Nilsson, as well as this film, which was directed by Fred Wolf, who would go on to help make the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle cartoon and the TV special Free to Be You and Me. Yes, the creative force behind Son of Dracula helped make a cartoon and it’s […]
My Life with Morrissey (2003)
“. . . and now I know how Joan of Arc felt.”—Morrissey The greats always come in pairs: Johnny Thunders and David Johansen in the New York Dolls (Mona et Moi). Keith Richards and Mick Jagger in the Rolling Stones. Aerosmith’s Joe Perry and Steven Tyler. . . . And Johnny Marr and (Steven) Morrissey […]
Slipstream (1973)
“If I ventured in the slipstreamBetween the viaducts of your dreams.” — Van Morrison, “Astral Weeks” (1968) My attendance of the recent Saturday Night Drive-In Asylum Double Feature Watch Party on September 5 — which featured The Redeemer (1978) — brings us to this review. And I have to admit that, until this most recent […]
REPOST: Cementerio del Terror (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is now on Shudder! We couldn’t be more excited that Vinegar Syndrome is releasing this astounding blast of Mexican VHS horror on blu ray. If you love Fulci-esque blood-splattered movies that leap genre and feel through their running time, you need to see this movie. This article originally ran in Drive-In Asylum #19, which […]
Rock and Roll Fantasy (1992)
Before he helped start The Asylum, David Michael Latt made this sex comedy which way more comedy than sex. Attila plays Jamie Z., a rock star who is too much of a headache for his manager, so he’s marked for death. He lives in a girl’s sorority and you’d think that’d be the recipe for […]
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