2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Super Ninja (1984)
28. THESE FISTS BREAK BRICKS: In celebration of the excellent new book, watch a martial arts movie. John has two jobs: he’s a maverick NYPD cop. And, well, he’s also a ninja. A super ninja. Alexander Rei Lo is the guy for this role because a look across his IMDB resume tells us that he […]
Dark Sunday (1976)
Grindhouse and drive-in purveyor Earl Owensby, who made his producing-acting debut with the 1974 one-two punch of a Walking Tall (1973) ripoff called Challenge and its sequel, The Brass Ring, tossed a clergy collar on his ersatz Buford Pusser — and changed his name to the Reverend James Lowery — for this, his third movie: […]
Labyrinth of Cinema (2019)
The final film by Nobuhiko Obayashi, Labyrinth of Cinema has the late director returning to the subject of Japan’s history of warfare. If Obayashi had only made one movie — and that movie was House — he would still be celebrated. This film brings his career — and life — full circle to a small movie theater in […]
SLASHER MONTH: City of Blood (1987)
2000 years ago, two African tribesmen walking through a forester killed by a masked man wielding a spiked club, the same weapon that is being used to murder prostitutes. Then, the killer uses the spikes on his fist to paint pictures. Chief medical examiner Dr. Joe Hendersen is now obsessed with researching the murders, but […]
SLASHER MONTH: Cheerleader Camp (1988)
You know, if I had my way, Betsy Russell would have been a much bigger star. I mean, she’s done well and is remembered — and got to be in the Saw movies and get a whole new audience — but she deserved better than a movie that forces us to watch Leif Garrett make sweet […]
Like Dogs (2021)
Lisa (Annabel Barrett) and Adam (Ignacyo Matynia) wake up in a dog kennel, chained to the walls and yeah, treated and fed like dogs. They have no idea how they got there to why and they start to bond. Adam starts the escape plan and then everything changes. Doctor Fischer (Katy Dore), George (Ryan Q. […]
House of Witchcraft (1989)
La casa del sortilegio (The House of the Spell) finds our old friend Umberto Lenzi making a TV movie that fits right into his Ghosthouse style and I, for one, could not be happier. This is one of four films in the Doomed Houses series of films that also includes his The House of Lost Souls and […]
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