2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: Fangs (1974)
26. DAY OF THE SERPENT: There better be a motherf*ing snake in this motherf*ing movie. Les Tremayne, who was one of the most popular and well-known voices of the Golden Age of Radio, working on shows like The Jackie Gleason/Les Tremayne Show, Ford Theatre, Inner Sanctum, The Whistler and more. He even had a breakfast show […]
Girls In Trouble (1971)
This is a tricky movie to review. First, it’s confused with German director Eberhard Schröder’s Die Klosterschülerinnen, aka The Convent Students, which also made the rounds as Sex Life in a Convent, but is also known as . . . Girls in Trouble. Second, that film, and this Sybil Danning vehicle (well, not really) is […]
The Crickets Dance (2020)
Angie Lawrence should have it all. She has a great job — she’s an attorney — and she’s gorgeous. But she’s trapped by her past and soon, moves into the past as she inherits an antebellum mansion that has a diary detailing the slavery and injustice that happened in the house. This is Veronica Robledo’s […]
SLASHER MONTH: Cure (1997)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. A member of the Society of Authors, she currently works as a ghostwriter of personal memoirs for Story Terrace London and writes for several blogs on topics as diverse as film history, punk rock, women’s issues, and international politics. For links to her work, […]
SLASHER MONTH: Folies Meurtrières (1984)
Shot on Super 8 at some time in the early 80s in France, this film is 52-minutes of a killer aimlessly killing, killing and killing some more while a fuzzed out synth soundtrack plays, the kind of music that those that say their films are “inspired by John Carpenter” but just have a neon color […]
National Lampoon’s Movie Madness (1982)
Originally made as National Lampoon Goes to the Movies, this film sat for two years, perhaps to age like cheese, and was intended to be a parody of ten film and television genres. It ended up being three movies — a divorce story, a making-it-big movie and a cop caper. When it played a test screening […]
Seek (2020)
Estranged sisters Heidi (Allisyn Snyder, A.P. Bio) and Jordan (Claire Grant) have been driving all night when they come across a roadside park and rest stop. Inside, they both find the mysterious Lonely Child who demands that they play a game. Seek is a short that looks gorgeous thanks to practical effects by two-time Academy Award nominee Arjen Tuiten (Wonder, Pan’s […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: The Lovers (2021)
A roommate stuck in a codependent cycle finds her burgeoning romance might lead to something unexpected. And when she brings her new man home, perhaps both she and her roommate might find some enjoyment out of him. Sure, I should have expected the ending, but it hit me just right. And I’m not going to […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Meta (2020)
During senior prom, Artie is excited to see if he’s won prom king — despite not believing that his school would vote in a transguy — just as he gets his period. And then, well, he transforms all over again in order to deal with bullies. I’m somewhat fascinated that the prom scene in Carrie gets […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: LandLocked (2021)
Are the movies trying to tell me something? I’ve watched multiple films in the last few weeks where people try to go back home again and set things right. This never works out. What am I to learn? Directed and written by Paul Owens, LandLocked brings his family into the film, playing fictionalized versions of themselves, […]
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