Blue Murder (1985)
It is “films” such as Blue Murder that give our beloved SOV ’80s a bad reputation because, as with the lesson in apoc-tedium that is Survival: 1990 (yes, made by Emmeritus Productions, the Canadian studio that also made this; as well as the computer-takes-over-a-skyscraper romp, The Tower), this inert John Carpenter knock off is just […]
Murderlust (1985)
Indiana poet James Whitcomb Riley was long gone by the time of 16mm and SOV backyard filmmaking. But his rule regarding quacking ducks applies: If it looks like an SOV and quacks like an SOV . . . well, I’ll call that 16mm bird an SOV duck. So, yeah. Technically speaking, Murderlust isn’t a shot-on-video […]
Mirror of Death (1987) and Bloodspell (1988)
Oh, R.D, you’re a real pain in the posterior and a kick in the lower abdominal area this week with your ‘squeezin’ the Charmin’, SOV fanboydom. Yes, I am a self-aware man: a man that fights his life of monotony on the highway to mediocrity by binge-watching SOV films. So, I’ve pretty much — with […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Dealer (2021)
Johnny is a street-smart kid who spends his weekdays in a group home but soon learns that he can no longer go home on the weekends. He’s a mover and shaker, though, as he sells cocaine and avoids getting caught because after all, he’s just a kid. Then he meets Antony, an actor whose pocket […]
PREVIEW: Slumber Party Massacre remake
The SYFY modern remake of Slumber Party Massacre is set to air on Saturday, October 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Just in time for Halloween, this power drill slasher is back and directed by Danishka Esterhazy, who made The Banana Splits Movie. Check out the trailer! I’m excited for this, as the Slumber Party Massacre films are so […]
FANTASTIC FEST: King Car (2021)
Imagine Christine with political messages. Yes, in King Car, Uno — a taxi company owner’s son — is able to speak to cars — because he was born in the back of a taxi — and has become close friends with the vehicle that saved him from a traffic accident as a young child at the cost of […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Dead & Beautiful (2021)
A group of five young and wealthy friends has gathered to attend the funeral of one of their number but it’s all a ruse. The group seems to have done this before — what are they the cast of the Full Moon movie Prison of the Dead? — so they all head off to the […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Bloody Oranges (2021)
Director Jean-Christophe Meurisse has created a film that really has no limit of how low it will go. It has four stories that all take their own paths. An elderly couple has gone so far into debt that their home will soon be repossessed, so they enter a dance contest in the hopes of winning […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Alone With You (2021)
Co-writers and co-directors Emily Bennett and Justin Brooks have put together a claustrophobic story that stays nearly all in one apartment as Charlie (Bennett) attempts to get her two-story Brooklyn apartment ready for the return of her erstwhile lover Simone (Emma Myles). Something has happened between the two of them, but from the positivity on […]
Cannibal Hookers and Demon Queen (1987) and Scream Dream (1989): A Donald Farmer Three-Fer!
Kansas cult filmmaker Donald Farmer made his first film, the short Despondent Yearning, in 1973; by 1976, he completed his sixth short, A Taste of Flesh: based on those titles, we’re guessing they’re skin flicks. After Christopher Lewis single-handedly birthed the home video SOV-market by bypassing con-fest screenings, Grindhouse theaters, and four-walling Drive-Ins for one-off […]
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