2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Rope (1948)
24. 2 CLOSE 4 COMFORT: A main character suffers from claustrophobia. Outside of the expected films like Psycho and Rear Window, Hitchcock has been a blind spot to me, despite my obsession with the Krimi and Giallo films that owe a debt to his work. Let’s change that! Based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play of the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Die Sister, Die (1972/1978)
DAY 24 — 2 CLOSE 4 COMFORT: A main character suffers from claustrophobia (and was Clint Eastwood “too close for comfort” in that editing suite with Jack Ging?). If only there was an olive-skinned Italian beauty adorned in a graveyard-appropriate mini dress and heels escaping a phalanx of zombie arms in an errant set piece […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Medium (2021)
A Thai-South Korean horror movie? Let’s do this! This film starts with a documentary being filmed in the northeast part of Thailand to show what happens in the life of a local medium named Nim. She’s possessed by the god Bayan and just the latest in a long line of women in her family who […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Ladies Club (1986)
Based on Casey Bishop and Betty Black’s novel The Sisterhood — one of the alt titles along with Violated — this is the kind of movie that sets out to be a feminist film and then must climb the challenge of its own marketing, which led director Janey Greek (“Ricky” by Weird Al, Spellbinder) to use the name […]
SLASHER MONTH: The Pumpkin Karver (2006)
You think you didn’t get along with your siblings? Jonathan and his sister Lynn have a major issue: he was pranked by her boyfriend Alex, who was dressed like a slasher and accidentally killed him. And not that Halloween is here, it. turns out that that man is back from the grave in a new […]
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