SLASHER MONTH: The Wind (1986)
Nico Mastorakis has a pretty good resume filled with VHS rental faves, including Island of Death, The Greek Tycoon (ironically, when he was a reporter, he went underground as a musician for the group of popular singer Yanni Poulopoulos and invaded Aristotle Onassis’ yacht, the Christina, where the Greek, well, tycoon was hosting Jackie (before they married) […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Dark Dungeons (2014)
DAY 30. BRING IT ON HOME: Something filmed in Seattle. I love Jack Chick. Completely and utterly love everything he ever put out. Dark Dungeons is one of his best tracts. I went to a high school that had decided that Dungeons & Dragons was a gateway to Satan and banned it from being played. […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Shredder Orpheus (1990)
DAY 30. BRING IT ON HOME: Something filmed in Seattle. As we near the close of the Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge, finding a movie shot in Seattle was a real, well, challenge. I didn’t want to do something easy, like Practical Magic, which isn’t really a psychotronic film either. And I’d already posted about Fear, The Changeling, Class […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Scorchy (1976)
DAY 30: BRING IT ON HOME: Something filmed in Seattle. “She’s killed a man, been shot at, and made love twice already this evening…and the evening isn’t over yet!” I mean, how am I not going to watch this movie after all that? Man, American-International kept putting out awesome movies late into the 1970’s, with […]
2020 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: River’s Edge (1986)
Day 30: Bring It on Home: Something filmed in Seattle. (AKA we’re cheating with the Pacific Northwest.) Okay, so why are we reviewing this dark, teen-crime drama in the middle of an all slasher ‘n horror month at B&S About Movies for October — outside of the fact that Slayer, Hallows Eve, and Fates Warning […]
Drive-In Friday: ’80s Teen Sex Comedy Night
As Robert Freese pointed out in his “Exploring: 80s Comedies” featurette for B&S About Movies, Bob Clark’s Porky’s opened up a cottage industry of teen sex comedies. And boy, did producers scrape the grease pits . . . where’s Pee Wee, Kim Cattral, and Kaki Hunter when you need ’em? Robert Hays! Leslie Nielsen! Where […]
SLASHER MONTH: Rest In Pieces (1987)
Along with Edge of the Axe and Deadly Manor, Spanish horror director José Ramón Larraz made this movie explicitly for the burgeoning American video rental market. It has all the cheap thrills you want, but it feels like a Michelin star chef just made you a mac and cheese pizza. Helen Hewitt (Lorin Jean Vail, The Patriot) and her husband […]
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