SALEM HORROR FEST WRAPUP!
Salem Horror Fest is a celebration of diverse voices and innovative filmmaking within a genre that best reflects our cultural demons. We were honored to be invited to review the films that they aired this year. Here are the ones that we watched. You can click on any title to read the full article. 6:45: A […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Two Witches (2021)
Sarah (Belle Adams) may have never intended to be a witch but comes face to face with the craft when she meets a strange woman at a restaurant. In contrast, Masha has always known that she will one day become one. In Sarah’s story, “The Boogeywoman,” our heroine is pregnant and her husband cooly informs […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Origin Unknown (Sin Origen) (2020)
Pedro del Toro, a family man and drug trafficking ally, is ready to get out of the crime life. But is the crime life ever ready to be done with you? As Alan, one of his henchmen, asks him to make one last deal to protect themselves from a rival family, a young girl shows […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Parallel Minds (2020)
On the verge of the release of Red Eye 2, a contact lens that can record data and resurface the buried memories of its wearer, a researcher named Margo finds the lead programmer has been murdered. That leads her to Thomas, a detective who has his own past to deal with, all to find out […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)
27. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: Robot arms, wooden legs or even a transplanted thing… whatever grabs you. Never go home again and never go to an abandoned tropical island with a coke-using film crew and never swim in the ocean and never go to camp. This camp has a reason, I guess, as the kids are addicted […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: The Free Fall (2021)
Adam Stilwell wrote and directed The Triangle, which is a film I’ve heard plenty of good things about. This time, he’s made a movie about a woman named Sara. She starts the film by waking up from a coma — she’d witnessed something traumatic with her parents and attempted suicide — into a life she doesn’t remember. And while […]
The Hanging Woman (1973)
Scotsman Serge Chekov (Stelvio Rosi, of Luchino Visconti’s incredible The Leopard, 1963) inherits his uncle’s estate that overlooks a small Balkans village, only to discover that Professor Droilia (Gerald Tichy, of Mario Bava’s Hatchet for the Honeymoon), has taken residence in the basement. As Chekov investigates, he leans the professor is a mad scientist who […]
They’re Outside (2020)
The longline for this says, “While filming a documentary about an agoraphobic woman, a celebrity psychologist is drawn into supernatural events.” But I was surprised that I liked this movie, in spite of my aversion to found footage films, as it plays with time and perception and moves who is the protagonist of the film […]
SLASHER MONTH: Midnight Ride (1990)
I mean, how could I not watch this movie? It’s got Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill and Robert Mitchum improbably together in a riff on The Hitcher or The Vanishing or any other number of hitchhiking maniacs on the road movies. Dudikoff is a cop who is more married to his job than to his Russian wife Lara, […]
SLASHER MONTH: I Start Counting (1970)
Sure, this is a pre-slasher, slasher adjacent, pseudo-slasher, whatever. But it has killing, it has suspense and it has style. It also has a 16-year-old Jenny Agutter playing a sexually obsessed 14-year-old so it was pretty rough for conservative people in 1970 and probably still is 51 years later. Director David Greene also made The People […]
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