SLASHER MONTH: Seed of Chucky (2004)
Don Mancini has written every Child’s Play except for the reboot. He also directed this one in which we meet Glen, the good guy — literally — doll son of Chucky and Tiffany. He’s found a living working as a dummy for an abusive ventriloquist, but when he sees a preview of Jennifer Tilly’s new horror […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Give Me Pity (2022)
Director and writer Amanda Kramer (Ladyworld, Please Baby Please) has created this exploration of the first ever television special for Sissy St. Claire (Sophie von Haselberg. It’s an evening full of music and laughter, glamour and entertainment, as the ad copy goes, but Sissy’s live event quickly begins to become a nightmare thanks to a […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 5: Office Killer (1997)
5. A Horror Film Directed by a Fine Artist. Cynthia Sherman is a fine artist whose work is mainly a series of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her best-regarded work is the collected “Untitled Film Stills”, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself playing the female […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 5: Night Creature (1978)
5. CAKE IN FRIGHT: To celebrate the birth of Donald Pleasence, light a candle, eat a slice and watch one of his many. You can read another take on this movie here. If you want to see what Donald Pleasence movies I’ve seen, here’s the Letterboxd list. I love him because he was a working actor. […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Hot Take: The Depp/Heard Trial (2022)
It makes my heart a little happy that Tubi is leaning in on being the National Enquirer of streaming TV, literally racing this starnge Rashomon take on the very recent Depp vs. Heard trial. This is absolute junk food television that I have devoured every single overly sugary bite of. The 70s and 80s were […]
SLASHER MONTH: Blood Games (1990)
Israeli director Tanya Rosenberg only made one movie and this is it. And that’s a shame because I haven’t seen a movie that can somehow combine the roughest moments of 70s exploitation with female characters that are given plenty of agency and personalities that are explored more than their bodies. I mean, yes, it’s scummy […]
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