Jason Kleeberg’s Ultimate Guide to Christmas Evil
Jason Kleeberg sent us his list of Holiday Horror – The Ultimate Guide to Christmas Evil (160+ Films). You can check out the list on Letterboxd. It’s an expansive list and we’ve only seen 27% of the films, which is surprising. With the holiday season in full swing, consider this your advent calendar for seasonally spooktastic […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: Challenge of the Masters (1976)
Director Lau Kar-Leung trained in martial arts under the strict instruction of his father Lau Cham, who studied Hung Gar under Lam Sai-wing, who was a student of Wong Fei-hung, the man that this movie is all about. After working as an extra and choreographer, Lau Kar-Leung became one of Shaw Brothers’ main choreographers and worked […]
ARROW VIDEO SHAW SCOPE BOX SET: King Boxer (1972)
Known in China as Tiān xià dì yī quán (Number One Fist in the World), this movie was released in the U.S. by Warner Brothers as Five Fingers of Death. The studio had seen a big success with their TV series Kung Fu and saw an opportunity. What followed was a kung fu craze that saw thirty movies […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: Return of the 18 Bronzemen (1976)
The Old School Kung Fu Fest is back and the Museum of the Moving Image and Subway Cinema will co-present eight newly restored films and one fan favorite classic by Kuo on glorious 35mm. Four titles will be available exclusively online, December 6–13, and another five films for in-person big-screen viewing at MoMI, December 10–12. To see any […]
9th Old School Kung Fu Fest: 18 Bronzemen (1976)
The Old School Kung Fu Fest is back and the Museum of the Moving Image and Subway Cinema will co-present eight newly restored films and one fan favorite classic by Kuo on glorious 35mm. Four titles will be available exclusively online, December 6–13, and another five films for in-person big-screen viewing at MoMI, December 10–12. To see any […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Strings (2021)
One look this film’s ’70s drive-in retro one-sheet and you can see that Canadian writer and director Ryan Glover is one of us: raised on those classic horror films from the early days of video stores filled with wares from the ’70s. Primarily a cinematographer with 20 credits to his resume, The Strings is his […]
The Reenactment (2021)
When you’re an unknown writer/director with an up-and-coming cast of actors and you want to entice those to stream your film: cast horror icon Tony Todd in your comedy homage to “unsolved mystery” shows, most famously, the Robert Stack-hosted Unsolved Mysteries. A meta-retro film, the story takes a look back on Myths & Mysteries, a […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: Death Valley (2021)
When a secret experiment goes horribly wrong — which may have something to do with the Nephilim — bioengineer Doctor Chloe (Kristen Kaster, puts out an emergency signal warning that she has special DNA that can help the world while also warning any would-be rescuers that a monster (played by Matthew Ninaber, who was Psycho Goreman, and wrote and […]
My Stepmother is an Alien (1988)
Back when this site was young, I wrote something called “Kim Basinger: Professional idiocy, circa 1987 and 1988” in which I wondered why the very capable Basinger resigned herself to playing morons in movies like Blind Date and this movie. But man — I watched this tonight and maybe I was in the right mood, but […]
The Last Matinee (2021)
Montevideo, Uruguay-based filmmaker Maximiliano “Max” Contenti has been at it since his first short released in 2001. He’s since made eight shorts, two features — Meneco viviente V and Neptunia — and one documentary. An ’80s slasher meets ’70s giallo throwback that is set in the Wes Craven-Scream ’90s, The Last Mantinee, aka Al morir […]
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