SALEM HORROR FEST 2021: Wicked Games (2021)
When Harley joins her boyfriend for a long Halloween weekend at his family’s country estate, their romantic weekend is upended by a gang of masked freaks. But the intruders are shocked when Harley is no pushover; she has a history of violence that is going to make the games they’re playing that much more interesting. Director […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 5: Underworld (1985)
5. REEKING HAVOC: Sewer dwellers making a mess of things up on the surface. The synthpop band Freur did the music for this, but they ended up getting better known when they took the name of this movie as their own: Underworld. They’re not the only famous people who are part of this movie — also […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Psychopath (1973)
Alternatively titled An Eye for an Eye, this 1973 freakout is all about Mr. Rabbey, the host of a children’s television show. He’s so beloved by the children that they tell him all of their secrets, like when their parents don’t treat them well. To get back at them, well, he shows up and kills them. […]
SLASHER MONTH: My Brother Has Bad Dreams (1972)
Writer/director Robert Emery made one hell of a movie here. Seriously, this is one of the most downbeat movies that I’ve ever seen and yet it’s one that you can’t turn away from. I mean, this is a movie where the lead, Karl, is a stunted child of a man who jerks off to his […]
The Mutation (2021)
After a deadly experiment on a rat goes wrong — alright, that’s all you had to tell me. I’m in. The mutated rat has been let loose in a city and a group of detectives, a zoologist and a grieving widow must join forces to exterminate that rat which is growing larger and larger. Again, […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Waxworks (1924)
This silent German film is one of the first — if not the first anthology films, as it tells multiple stories comprising fantasy adventure, history and horror. The connecting story is about a writer accepting a job from a waxworks proprietor to write a series of tales about the exhibits in his wax museum, which […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Cop Secret (2021)
Leynilögga means Secret Log in Islandic, as far as Google tells me, which is a funny joke if true, as this film is all about a tough cop in denial of his own sexual orientation who falls in love with his new partner. Directed by Hannes Þór Halldórsson, the goalie for Iceland’s national soccer team, it’s […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Some Like It Rare (2021)
Sophie and Vincent have run the family butcher shop for a decade, but business is bad. So bad that it’s on the brink of bankruptcy and so is their marriage. Yet what turns things around? When Vincent kills a vegan activist who had vandalized their business. And when he butchers the body and his wife […]
FANTASTIC FEST: The Lost World (1925)
Adapted from Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1912 novel, The Lost World is most famous for its stop motion special effects, which were created by Willis O’Brien and predate his work on the original King Kong. In some prints of this film, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself appeared in the opening, introducing what audiences were about to see. […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Drawn and Quartered 2021 (2021)
As part of Fantastic Fest, several animation shorts played Drawn and Quartered 2021. There’s lots of love here — you should try and check out each of these as they appear online. Sunbelly (Directed by Jordan Speer): A canine astronaut travels through the galaxy yet still has to deal with fleas. This movie, packed with color and […]
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