2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: The Fishmen and Their Queen (1995)
6. IT CAME FROM THE SEA: Some kind of threat from below the brine. Sergio Martino can do no wrong. Seriously, even when he’s combining footage from Island of the Fishmen AKA Screamers and 2019: After the Fall of New York into one TV movie, I can’t be anything but entertained. Two teenagers are stuck in the […]
SLASHER MONTH: Death by Dialogue (1988)
Slasher film coincidences: five friends visit a crippled uncle, a taxidermist who lives next to a movie set, and they all start dying just like the movie that’s being made. This was all we needed in 1988, you know? Also, this movie had the tagline “Ken Sagos, the kid who survived Nightmare on Elm Street 3 […]
SLASHER MONTH: Shanks (1974)
The last film directed by the man who made movies and the hulabaloo around them into magic, William Castle, Shanks is also the first major film role for Marcel Marceau. So already you know that it’s not going to be normal. At all. Castle wanted to work with the mime after watching him perform “Youth, Maturity, […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Change of Habit (1969)
I often think about Elvis and what his life would have been like without Colonel Parker and going into the Army and how at one point, you couldn’t show him from the waist up or girls would spontaneously get pregnant and by 1969, The King had been in 31 movies. They made them fast, they […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Last of the Wolves (2021)
Three years after The Blood of Wolves, Korô no chi: Level 2 (AKA The Blood of the Wolves 2 and Last of the Wolves) finds Shuichi Hioka taking over after the death of the corrupt Shōgo Ōgami and fulfilled his mentor police officer’s plan: a truce between the various gangs of Hiroshima. Yet when Shigehiro Uebayashi (Ryohei Suzuki, Tokyo Tribe) is […]
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