Tomie (1999)
Manga creator Junji Ito grew up in a house where he was afraid to go to the bathroom, as it was at the end of a long underground tunnel filled with water crickets. While working as a dental technician, he was drawing at night and submitted a story to a magazine called Monthly Halloween that would […]
Kyûketsu Shôjo tai Shôjo Furanken (2009)
Monami is a transfer student with a secret and a burning need for Mizushima. As Japanese women share chocolate to show their love, a piece of the candy with her blood in it has brought him into her world of vampires, while his jilted girlfriend Keiko pays the price by accidentally dying, then coming back as […]
Tōkyō Zankoku Keisatsu (2008)
You know how Videodrome would destroy the brains of those that watched it? Yeah, that’s exactly what this movie is. While working on special effects for The Machine Girl, Media Blasters asked director Yoshihiro Nishimura if he was interested in making another movie. He decided to take his short Anatomia Extinction and expand it into this film, which more […]
Genkai Jinkô Keisû (1995)
Otherwise known as Anatomia Extinction, this film starts what Tokyo Gore Police would push forward thirteen years later. A salaryman sees a murder in the subways and is soon pursued by the killer, who wants him to join a group called The Engineers, who have taken it upon themselves to reduce Japan’s overpopulation. Despite not wanting any […]
Terror on the 40th Floor (1974)
How can this be a ripoff of The Towering Inferno when it came out a few months before that movie? I assume that they read in Variety about that film and said, “Let’s get this on TV in a hurry!” That’s not a bad thing, though. Director Jerry Jameson made Hurricane, Heatwave!, The Deadly Night Tower, Superdome, Raise the Titanic! and Airport ’77, […]
The Comeback Kid (1980)
Bubba Newman (John Ritter) has been in the minor leagues for way too long and if he goes down one more level, he may as well never make it to the majors. So he quits to become the coach for a gang of poor kids — Walter Matthau, look out — and finds romance with […]
From the Dead of Night (1989)
Gary Brandner didn’t just write The Howling, he also wrote a book called Walkers, in which a woman named Joanna Raitt nearly drowns at a party and soon finds the undead coming after her, trying to bring her back to the world of the dead. If you’re thinking that a lot of that sounds very Carnival of Souls, […]
The Tenth Level (1976)
The Milgram experiment was a series of social psychology trials conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, who measured the willingness of men to obey an authority figure who instructed them to administer electric shocks to someone else, even forcing them to continue the punishment until they killed someone. Strangely — or not all that […]
In the Shadows, Someone’s Watching (1993)
Also known as With Harmful Intent, this 1993 Richard Friedman (Doom Asylum, Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge, Scared Stiff) made for TV movie has Rick Springfield and Joan Van Ark as parents headed for a divorce when a mystery man beats up their kid. Yes, if you’re the kind of person who says, “Kids never get hurt […]
Goliath Awaits (1981)
In the days where there were only three major channels, Operation Prime Time was an effort to create network quality programming for small independent stations. I can remember several films that aired locally from this effort, including Yogi’s First Christmas, the Rankin/Bass Jack Frost special, Solid Gold and The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything. With the launch of […]
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