FANTASTIC FEST: Mad God (2021)
We shouldn’t have to tell you who Phil Tippett is. He’s the artist who animated everything from the Star Wars miniature chess scene to ED-209 in RoboCop, the aliens of Starship Troopers and the dragons in Willow and Dragonslayer. He’s been working Mad God for thirty years and let me tell you — it was worth it. An assassin explores a […]
FANTASTIC FEST: The Trip (2021)
Scandanavian director Tommy Wirkola is known in the United States for Dead Snow and Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Now, he has created this film, which was called I onde dager (In Bad Days) in its home country. It concerns a couple — Noomi Rapace (who played Lisabeth Salander in the original films) and Aksel Hennie — who go away […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Saloum (2021)
Bangui’s Hyenas, an elite mercenary team, have already extracted a drug dealer and his treasure from the chaos of a coup and are heading straight for the payout in Dakar. Yet as much as we love it when a plan comes together, we also seem to love a movie where things fall apart. And the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980)
1. RE-ANIMATED: Businesses are opening back up (we did!) and things are getting back to “normal” so to kick things off you get to watch a movie where something gets brought back to life. We’re baaaaaack! I work in my basement from when I wake up until when I go to bed, writing all sorts […]
SLASHER MONTH: Camp Fear (1991)
Man, there are movies where I feel like I have reached the absolute Mariana Trench of bad films and this would be one of those times. What would make me watch a film like this? Well, the cast. There are some stories here. One of the “dorm girls” is Shannon Michelle Wilsey, who was only […]
SLASHER MONTH: Blades (1989)
The Tall Grass Country Club is a gorgeous piece of heaven on Earth, but just like Amity, once a major tourist event starts happening, it doesn’t matter how many dead bodies show up. Things will proceed according to schedule. Except that instead of a great white, Tall Grass is dealing with, well, a possessed lawnmower. […]
SLASHER MONTH: Skullduggery (1983)
Coming at the center of the Venn diagram for the slasher boom and the Satanic Panic*, Skullduggery is straight out of Canada and straight up nuts and I wonder, why is no one going crazy about this movie? Oh yeah — it’s also about community college theater. There’s a group of D&D players who all work […]
SLASHER MONTH: Cassandra (1987)
Don’t ask me why, but it seems like a lot of this year’s slasher month films are coming from the Land Down Under, where women glow and men plunder. Cassandra is from director Colin Eggleston, who also made Long Weekend and Fantasm Comes Again. Our titular character keeps dreaming that her brother is a killer and her parents […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Devil Story (1986)
Also known as Once Upon A Time…The Devil, we have the almighty Vinegar Syndrome to thank for this movie being newly restored in 4K from its 35mm original camera negative. I’ve had a bootleg of this waiting to be watched for years because I knew someday that I would need to call upon its infernal power to […]
PTSD: The Walking Wounded (2021)
Writer/director Ash Patino’shas put together a documentary on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD with a concentration on the invisible wounds that it causes within the military community. The hope is that this film will prove to veterans and their family members that they are not alone when it comes to the unique struggles that come along with […]
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