The Incredible Melting Man (1977)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The first part of this originally ran in Drive-In Asylum. When American International Pictures started hyping The Incredible Melting Man, they went all out. And by all out, I mean they gave in to the sinister urge to varnish the truth. A poster for the film had this statement on it: “Rick Baker, the […]
The Brain That Wouldn’t Die (1962)
I really dislike anyone who makes fun of this movie. It’s been riffed and goofed on for years, but it’s way better made than it has any right to be and is filled with some big ideas that other movies from its genre and time never would dare to include. Shot independently around Tarrytown, New […]
Return of the Blind Dead (1974)
From Tombs of the Blind Dead to The Ghost Galleon and Night of the Seagulls — let’s not mention Curse of the Blind Dead — few images of Eurohorror are as striking as the Satanic and zombiefied Knights Templar riding out to their strange theme. I kind of love that Spanish horror doesn’t seem to care all that much about continuity. […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Razzennest (2022)
The description for this movie is, of course, just to trick you into this surprising film: “South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen (Michael Smulik) meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank (Sophie Kathleen Kozeluh) in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus’s crew joining, they record an […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Amazing Elisa (2022)
Elisa is a 12-year-old girl who lives with her father after the death of her mother. She’s obsessed with a comic book superhero and thinks that she has the same powers, which finds her putting her life into danger at nearly every opportunity. Meanwhile, a painter named Héctor and his wheelchair-bound wife Úrsula are engaged […]
The Mutations (1974)
We all have dreams but Professor Nolter’s (Donald Pleasence) is to get to the next level of evolution by crossbreeding Venus flytraps with students from his class, which seems like the worst of ideas but hey, I don’t have tenure. When he’s done with them, he sells them as freaks to Mr. Lynch (a pre-Dr. Who […]
The Munsters (2022)
I don’t know how many words I can write that don’t all just add up to a very simple statement: This is not for me. But who is it for? At once it’s either the best-looking fan movie ever made or the cheapest appearing studio reboot of an existing property. I grew up liking The Munsters […]
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