SALEM HORROR FEST 2021: Snapper: The Man-Eating Turtle Movie That Never Got Made (2021)
Snapper is a fun short that tells the story of an unfinished 90s eco horror film, the work that went into it and why it ended. With behind-the-scenes set footage, photos, newly digitized film reels of daily footage and never-before-told stories from the filmmakers, this idea could have been real, but just didn’t make it. […]
SALEM HORROR FEST 2021: Seeds (2020)
Seeds is the second feature by filmmaker Skip Shea. An avid fan of folk horror films, Shea decided to follow up his first feature Trinity with a story about a pagan cult that is about to go to war with the Catholic Church. It’s also a very personal story Macha and Andrew both process the death […]
SALEM HORROR FEST 2021: Take Back the Night (2021)
Take Back the Night makes a pretty astounding choice as its main character Jane Doe isn’t completely heroic. I’ll explain in a moment. She’s just finished her first art show, selling every work she’s created and enjoying the benefits of being a social media influencer and young person in the middle of a hustling and […]
SALEM HORROR FEST 2021: I Need You Dead! (2020)
While the logline for this movie says, “After a moment of total teenage angst, a young punk finds himself at odds with a psychedelic monster of his own creation,” the truth is that this film is a film within a film inside, well, maybe another film. While the script started as Cop Killer, which followed […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper (1981)
Roger Spottiswoode directed everything from Terror Train, Under Fire and Shoot to Kill to Turner & Hooch, Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, The Sixth Day and Tomorrow Never Dies. This movie originally had John Frankenheimer* as the director, but he was replaced by Buzz Kulik, the director of Bad Ronald. The script was written by an uncredited W.D. Richter (Jeffrey Alan Fiskin […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Hee-Man: Master of None (1985)
3. HIGH SPIRITS: Tickle your funny bones with a side splitter, a gut buster, a real scream. Go on, laugh your head off! Getting to theaters — at least in the Phillipines — two years before the Cannon Masters of the Universe, Hee-Man: Master of None is based more on the Filmation cartoon series than any other […]
Free Guy (2021)
Free Guy should be a movie that I could have just shut my brain off to enjoy, but something in the back of my head kept punching me in the brain. It’s a movie that rails against commercialism while being a major studio movie, a film that champions the individual while being an ersatz Ready […]
SLASHER MONTH: Rush Week (1989)
Toni Daniels doesn’t want to write the same college newspaper stories as everyone else at Tambler College. Luckily for her — or maybe not — there’s been a series of on-campus disappearances and at least one murder, all connected to Rush Week (and that one murder connected to a nude modeling session inside the science building that had […]
SLASHER MONTH: Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh (1991)
A chainsaw-wielding killer is on the loose in our hometown, collecting body parts like a Yinzer Fuad Ramses, as the clues all point to this being an Egyptian ritual of the dead. This may be more amusing if you’re from here, as the film gives you the opportunity to see plenty of the Lawrenceville neighborhood when it […]
Tomorrow Is Yesterday (2021)
“Today is tomorrow. Tomorrow is yesterday.” — the woman at the bridge We were first exposed to the work of Michigan-based actor Mason Heidger courtesy of his leading role as a lovable “mad scientist” in the sci-fi oriented rom-com, Making Time. In that film, Heidger impressed with his thespian abilities in rattling off — and […]
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