FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Stairway to Stardom Mixtape (2022)
Filmed on video in a Staten Island basement, hosted by lounge singer Frank Masi and his wife Tillie from 1979 to the early 1990s, Stairway to Stardom existed in a world that could only be before the internet. I first saw clips of the show thanks to The Found Footage Festival and they broke my brain. […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Metal Detector Maniac (2021)
Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo, played by Matt Farley and Tom Scalzo, are music professors currently on sabbatical working on an album of music by their band Moes Haven that will be based on whatever happens in their lives. Currently, that seems like it’s going to be them playing basketball all day. But that’s before they […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Third Saturday in October (2022)
I went all in on The Third Saturday in October V, loving the way that it had the look and feel of 90s direct to video slasher sequels, so I was beyond excited for the first installment which referenced slashers like Death Screams and Another Son of Sam, I got pretty excited. Sadly, the final effort doesn’t match the […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Third Saturday In October V (2022)
The Third Saturday in October V is a movie, sure, but it’s also a reference to the rivalry between the Crimson Tide of the University of Alabama and the Volunteers of the University of Tennessee, schools that are located around three hundred miles apart. Alabama leads the series 58–37–8 as of this year. So in […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (2022)
Directed by Jim Demonakos (founder of Seattle’s Emerald City Comic Con) and Kevin Konrad Hanna, this engaging documentary is about the world of Mike Mignola and the world he’s created around Hellboy. Comic book and movie geeks — umm, speaking for myself, that’s the same audience — will enjoy hearing from Doug Jones, Guillermo del […]
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH SLAUGHTER DAY FILMMAKERS BLAKE AND BRENT COUSINS
Slaughter Day may be thirty years old but it feels fresher and more original than any movie that’s come out in 2022. I had the amazing opportunity to chat with its creators, Brent and Blake Cousins, and discover they put their lives — and the lives of their friends — on the line to create […]
VISUAL VENGEANCE/ Wild Eye NOVEMBER 2022 Title Announced – Long Lost Linnea Quigley feature HEARTLAND OF DARKNESS
Visual Vengeance is a label dedicated to vintage “Shot on Video” and microbudget genre independents from the 1980s through 2000. Their next release is 1989 never-before-seen Linnea Quigley Satanic Panic epic Heartland of Darkness AKA Blood Church! In the small town of Copperton, Ohio, Paul Henson, a former big-city journalist, buys a small local newspaper. He […]
Feng huang wang zi (1989)
Magic Warriors is the third movie in a trilogy that includes Child of Peach and Magic of Spell. I am happy to inform you that in no way did this series of movies ever get less weird or filled with whimsy. Well, it’s kind of the third part. It was released as Child of Peach 3 in some […]
Tao da liang da xian shen wei (1988)
Magic of Spell is the sequel to Child of Peach and, if anything, it might be even weirder than that movie and that makes me happier than I can even explain to you. Momotaro the Peach Boy is back and played by a woman named Lam Siu-Lau. Tiny Dog, Tiny Monkey and Tiny Cock are back too […]
Shen wei san meng long (1980)
Bruce Lee only made four movies but the number of movies made by his imitators could be incalculable. The Clones of Bruce Lee may be among the strangest of those movies. Seconds after the death of Bruce Lee in Hong Kong, Colonel Colin (Andy Hannah) of the Special Branch of Investigations and Professor Lucas (Jon […]
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