2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 17: Empire of the Dark (1991)
17. HEADS OFF AT THE PASS: Something with a decapitation in it. The Aftermath was, I believed, the shining career moment of auteur Steve Barkett, but man I was wrong. So wrong. I referred to Barkett in that review as someone that “looks like every stepfather in the late 70’s and early 80’s, the kind […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Marked (2021)
Director and writer Matthew Avery Berg has created several shorts, with Marked being the latest. It tells the story of a tattoo artist named Sasha (Daniel Giacomini in his first film) confronting his past when a client (Eric Roberts!) knows what each mark means on his body. While a very quick film, this is yet another […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Welcome to Our Home (2021)
When Brad (Hank Northrop) brings his liberal girlfriend Lane (Danielle Dallas Roosa) home to meet his conservative parents Marnie and Jeff (Cheryl Dent and Christopher Carroll) tensions escalate starting with her not wanting to eat the mole poblano — she’s vegan — and building as her career and even where they met get called into question. […]
Secta Siniestra, aka Bloody Sect (1982)
There’s ripoffs of The Omen (The Visitor, The Tempter, Holocaust 2000), then there’s Spain’s “Roger Corman,” Ignacio F. Iquino — anglicized, here, for U.S. drive-in consumption as “Steve McCoy” — bringing on the double-live gonzos, Antichrist weirdness. (I’ll forever pair Iquino’s horror opus with Bigas Luna’s Anguish. I’m weird that way, anyway. . . .) […]
SLASHER MONTH: Prom Night (2008)
Why do I do this to myself? Like I should know that it’s a lot of pressure to try and top a hundred some slashers in a month last year, but here I am again, hunting down more bloodletting and writing about it and oh hey — let’s hope against hope that 2008’s Prom Night is […]
SLASHER MONTH: I Must Fall (2018)
I’ve always wondered what happens after a slasher murders their victim and the crime scene cleanup guys show up. What must it be like to show up to clean all the blood, eyeballs, gristle and gore? I Must Fall (originally One Must Fall) is the first film from Antonio Pantoja and it answers that question. When Sarah […]
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