2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: Razorback (1984)
21. BARN HOWLS: There are strange things afoot at the farm. Bonus points if you see a pumpkin patch! Between the cinematography of Dean Semler (The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and the lunatic vision of Russell Mulcahy (who was known for his music videos before making movies like this and Highlander; some of the […]
The Velvet Vampire (1971): So, Whatever Happened to Gene Shane?
“You know what sells films, sweetie: tits and cheap lighting. What in the hell is this artsy-fartsy brass bed in the middle of the desert crap? How in the hell am I suppose to recycle this into another film? And we’re calling it ‘Cemetery Girls,’ got it?” — Roger Corman schools Stephanie Rothman on the […]
Last Man Down (2021)
After civilization succumbs to a deadly pandemic and his wife is murdered, special forces soldier John Wood goes AWOL to live out the rest of his life in the woods. But we all know that action movies don’t end that way, so Wood has to come back to protect a woman whose blood may hold the […]
SLASHER MONTH: Slumber Party Massacre (2021)
Keeping up this series’ tradition, this 2021 reimagining is written and directed by women: Suzanne Keilly and Danishka Esterhazy, who also directed The Banana Splits Movie. In 1993, Trish Devereaux was the only survivor of a massacre caused by Russ Thorn and his power drill. She’s raised her daughter Dana to be overly concerned with safety as a result, […]
SLASHER MONTH: Twisted Nightmare (1987)
Directed and written by Paul Hunt (Wild, Free & Hungry, The Psychedelics, The Clones) and shot by Gary Graver, which is pretty much the whole reason I picked it, Twister Nightmare comes very, very late to the slasher cash-in year of 1981, but oh well, right? Look, if you get a letter telling you that you won a […]
Demigod (2021)
When her grandfather dies, Robin (Rachel Nichols) and Leo Murphy (Yohance Myles) return to her birthplace in Germany’s Black Forest to find a terrifying secret waiting for them. Yes, as always, you should never go back home ever again. Directed, co-written by and featuring acting by Miles Doleac (Hallowed Ground, The Dinner Party, The Historian), this movie […]
FRIDAY NIGHT DRIVE-IN ASYLUM LATE NIGHT MOVIE: Inferno!
This Friday at 11 PM EST — past your bedtime — join us on the DRIVE-IN ASYLUM LATE NIGHT MOVIE as we watch Inferno! You can find it on Tubi. Visit the Groovy Doom Facebook page to be part of it all, as we’ll discuss the movie before and after, as well as share ads for the […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: The Wereback (2021)
Amongst the claustrophobic confines of a truck carrying undocumented imgrants across the U.S./Mexico border — the coyote pun perhaps unintended, but when the title of your film is The Wereback all bets are off — one woman is containing true horror inside her as the full moon causes a transformation. Directed by the Estrada Brothers, this […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Weee Wooo (2021)
In just eight minutes, director and writer Charlie McWade, along with cinematographer Brendan H. Banks, take viewers along for a dark ride as a woman awakens in the silent woods to repeatedly hear a call that awakens her from her warm and safe bed and brings her out into the night. Weee Wooo is McWade’s […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Verified (2021)
Ali Chappell’s Verified tells a quick and simple story of an influencer who gets bitten by a zombie when live streaming and finds that it finally gets her the online attention that she has always wanted, but at a much greater cost than she may have been prepared to pay. Arrielle Edwards is perfectly cast […]
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