2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: The Hitchhikers (1972)
18. ALL THUMBS: Picking up a hitchhiker can be risky… lift with your legs, not your back. Maggie (Hee-Haw‘s Misty Rowe) learns she’s pregnant so she runs away from home. Such begins a movie by Beverly and Fred Sebastian, who also brought is ‘Gator Bait, On the Air with Captain Midnight and Rocktober Blood. She then falls in […]
Slasher Month: Early Frost, aka Chilling (1982)
I watched this Australian noirish thriller back-to-back on the same day as the supernatural slasher Stones of Death. I like to tell you that this Down Under rip of American film noir fared better than that Aborigine Freddy Krueger rip in a Poltergeist world. Well, with this soap opera-laden tale — about a divorce investigation […]
SLASHER MONTH: All Cheerleaders Die (2013)
Directed and written by Lucky McKee (May) and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me) in 2001 — then remade in 2013 — All Cheerleaders Die is about the very dangerous world of cheerleading which takes its first victim early as one of the girls — the subject of a documentary — is killed when she […]
SLASHER MONTH: Funny Man (1994)
Max Taylor wins the ancestral home of Callum Chance (Christopher Lee!) in a game of poker, the multiple games of chance are just beginning. Chance — yes, I realize the punny here — tells him not to move into the home, so of course he ignores it and spins a wheel that unlocks the Funny […]
SLASHER MONTH: Club Dread (2004)
It’s always amazed me that the Broken Lizard guys followed up Super Troopers with a slasher, but even though this isn’t it great, it kind of made me respect them even more. Instead of doing what was expected or easy, they went their own way. Just off Costa Rica lies Coconut Pete’s (BIll Paxton!?!) Pleasure Island, […]
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