LIONSGATE BLU RAY RELEASE: The Exorcism of God (2021)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally watched this movie on October 1, 2021. Now it’s available on blu ray+ digital and DVD from Lionsgate. Exorcism is in this year, if Fantastic Fest is any gauge of the pop culture zeitgeist. It totally is, right? Right. Between Zalava, Agnes and this movie, I’ve seen plenty of demonic women uttering blasphemy, […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: The Unholy Three (1925)
The first of eight movies that Lon Chaney would make with director Tod Browing (The Blackbird, The Road to Mandalay, London After Midnight, The Unknown, The Big City, West of Zanzibar and Where East Is East are the others), Tweedledee (Harry Earles) is a small man who leaves the circus when he assaults a young heckler and starts a riot. He’s […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
John Barrymore, who plays both Dr. Henry Jekyll and Mr. Edward Hyde in this movie, was such a gifted physical actor that the initial part of his transformation has no makeup. It’s him contorting his body and appearance all on his own. This adaption of Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Robert Wiene is best known for directing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, but this is yet another masterwork. It’s been remade four times, as Mad Love in 1935, The Hands of Orlac, Hands of a Stranger in 1962 and Body Parts in 1991. They all are versions of the 1920 novel Les Mains d’Orlac by French writer […]
Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers: The Heroin Busters (1977)
Enzo G. Castellari directing the kind of action you demand from poliziotteschi. Fabio Testi and David Hemmings as the tough undercover cop and driven agent against unstoppable crime. Goblin fresh off Suspiria making this movie sound like nothing else. The Heroin Busters is ready to own you.. Mike Hamilton (Hemmings) is an Interpol agent trying to […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19: The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Directed by and starring Victor Sjöström, this 1921 movie is based on the 1912 novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! by Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. It’s considered one of the first horror films ever made due to its atmosphere and it features both groundbreaking special effects and narrative innovations such as flashbacks within flashbacks. Lagerlöf and […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 19
For the nineteenth day of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon, let’s remember. April 19: Pre-1950 — Let’s go back in time and discuss a movie made a long, long time ago. All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to be part of it, you can just send us […]
Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers: The Big Racket (1976)
Both of the Enzo G. Castellari movies on Rogue Cops and Racketeers: Two Crime Thrillers push action further than anything we’ll see on screens this year, both films backed with brutality and danger both in the film and in making it, as there are no computers to make these stunts look like they’re spitting in […]
IT’S TIME TO GET WEIRD ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE (WELL, WEIRDER THAN NORMAL)
Mike Justice will join us for two awesome movies at 8 PM EST on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube page. Up first is the South African shocker The Demon which has Cameron Mitchell — yay! — in it. You can watch it on YouTube. Every week, we share two movies, along with ads for each film, a discussion […]
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