Fear Street Part Three: 1666 (2021)
A conundrum: I’ve already watched Fear Street 1994 and Fear Street 1978, so I feel obligated to finish the series*. I also am battling the urge to say that this feels like the tween version of The Witch — THE VVITCH! — and that I hate every slasher made after 1981, but I also realize that I need to grow […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Millie Dillmount (Julie Andrews) has a goal. Work as a stenographer to a rich man and become his wife. She becomes friends with the naive Miss Dorothy Brown (Mary Tyler Moore) as she checks into the Priscilla Hotel, which has a secret: the house mother Mrs. Meers (Beatrice Lillie) find girls with no family or […]
Santo contra el Doctor Muerte (1973)
Don’t you think Santo would stop and look at his cases and say, “You know, I fought Satan himself. Like, I have first-hand evidence of Lucifer, the First of the Fallen, the Lord of the Flies. I’ve battled aliens, vampires — male and female, werewolves — also both genders, gone back in time and tangled […]
Santo contra los Cazadores de Cabezas (1971)
You may notice that as I expound on the films of Santo, I often refer to him as a storytelling engine. John Seavey wrote a book on this subject, Storytelling Engines: How Writers Keep Superhero Sagas Going and Going! As he broke down several comic book characters setting, origin, characters and their motivations, he realized that […]
El Mundo del los Muertos (1970)
Let me tell you, if life isn’t doing it for you any longer, watch this movie. It will reaffirm your faith in the utter strangeness that this world can deliver to all of us. I mean, who knew that Santo would be in a remake of Black Sunday? A ripoff? Don’t speak ill of the man […]
A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
The first A Quiet Place left me kind of cold. Once you get past the conceit — aliens that attack based on sound attacking a mostly hearing impaired family — and the nail to the foot scene (repeated in the movie Haunt, which was also written and co-produced by Scott Beck and Bryan Wood), I came away […]
Las Luchadoras vs. el Robot Asesino (1969)
You know, Gaby (Regina Torne) is great. Across two movies — Las Luchadoras contra El Medico Asesino and Las Luchadoras contra La Momia — we’ve watched Gloria Venus and Golden Rubi battle evil doctors and an Aztec mummy, but now we have an evil doctor kidnapping the world’s smartest scientists and also creating a trenchcoat wearing killer who […]
The Forever Purge (2021)
Directed by Everardo Gout and written by series creator James DeMonaco, this is yet another example of “the last Purge” before they announce another sequel. That said, this series has gone from middling to decent to actual pretty good to middling all over again, so I was happy that this pushes the Purge in a new direction: […]
Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
The first of five collaborations between Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood — which also include Two Mules for Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Dirty Harry and Escape from Alcatraz — this movie tells the story of Arizona deputy sheriff Walt Coogan (Eastwood), who travels to New York City to extradite escaped killer James Ringerman (Don Stroud). However, […]
Santo vs. la Hija de Frankestein (1972)
If you’re the daughter of Frankenstein and you need a serum to make you eternally young, there’s only one man’s whose blood will work. That would be Santo. And that’s all we really need to get this movie rolling, right? Also, to make things even more awesome, Dr. Freda Frankenstein has several monsters in her […]
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