WarGames (1983)
Let me tell you, eleven-year-old me thought WarGames was awesome. Written by future Sneakers co-writers Lawrence Lasker and Walter F. Parkes and directed by John Badham*, who would gift us with the ancient future movies Blue Thunder and Short Circuit, is about a young hacker (Matthew Broderick) who unwittingly logs on to a server that allows him to simulate […]
Hackers (1995)
Before we begin discussing Hackers, perhaps the most 90’s movie of all time next to Singles, let’s apply our version of the Turning test to it to see if we can consider Hackers a true cyber punk film. Does it have the title of a Philip K. Dick book but not really have much to do with it? […]
Hide and Seek (1984)
Hide and Seek is a Canadian-made, CBC-TV adaptation of Thomas Joseph Ryan’s novel The Adolescence of P-1; the book’s first edition was released in Canada in 1977. In a tale that’s somewhat similar to Colossus, the 1966 novel by Dennis Feltham Jones that served as the basis for Universal Studios’ Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970), […]
Interface (1984)
Interface takes me back to the days of those “Big Box” in-a-plastic-tray oddball obscurities of yore that one happened upon a couple-of-years-after-the-fact of its release courtesy of one’s obsession (moi) of exploring the breathing-their-last-breath mom n’ pop video stores in the nooks ‘n crannies of strip malls. Just one look at that Pinhead-esque (Hellraiser didn’t […]
feardotcom (2002)
At one point, William Malone was on top of the horror world — well, of the 90’s and the less said about that era the better — thanks to his remake of House on Haunted Hill. And then came feardotcom. Wanting to make a movie that looked “basically like a nightmare,” this ended up being one of […]
Breaking News In Yuba County (2021)
You know, it’d be one thing to deride this attempt at making a Fargo-esque crime film that utterly wastes the talents of some really good actors, including Allison Janney, Mila Kunis, Awkwafina, Wanda Sykes, Juliette Lewis, Matthew Modine and Ellen Barkin. Tate Taylor has also made better films, like The Help, Ma and Girl On a Train. But this […]
DOUBLE TELLY ON THE DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE!
This week, we’re exploring two wild movies on the Groovy Doom Facebook page starting at 8 PM East Coast Time. Up first — it’s a deadly train ride filled with all manner of fright. In fact, it’s a Horror Express, which you can watch on Tubi. In case you didn’t know, we make a drink with […]
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