SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: Prisoners of the Ghostland (2021)
So go with me on this. After a prison bus crashed into a truck filled with nuclear waste, a big chunk of Japan was written off and is a lawless wasteland, with one town – Samurai Town — being ruled by The Governor (Bill Moseley) who has a harem of so-called granddaughters as his slaves. […]
Exploring: La Casa
La casa means the house and there’s an entire series of films with that title are just about as confusing as the Demons movies. It starts so simple and then, as it always does in Italy, gets very complicated. La Casa (1981, directed by Sam Raimi): The American horror film Evil Dead actually did pretty well in Italy. Why […]
Mill Creek Drive-in Classics: This Island Monster (1954)
Well, for me, this tale of an Italian undercover treasury agent infiltrating an island-based drug smuggling ring that results in the kidnapping of his young daughter isn’t a drive-in classic: it’s a scratchy n’ snowy, UHF-TV classic (well, bore). Those UHF days were the days when a young kid was enamored with all things Boris […]
Mill Creek Drive-In Classics: The Devil’s Hand (1961)
About the Author: Shannon Briggs has been a passionate fan of cinema ever since his grandmother recorded The Monster Squad on VHS through cable and gave it to him. You can see more of his musings on Twitter @MisterShannonB and read more his reviews at https://letterboxd.com/MisterShannonB/ Just a few seconds into the opening titles of […]
Captains of Za’atari (2021)
Mahmoud and Fawzi have been living in the Za’atari Refugee Camp in Jordan for five years, during which they’re dealt with an uncertain future, which they put out of their minds by playing soccer in the hopes of someday being good enough to have the sport become their future. Yet when one of them gets […]
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