FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Elderly (2022)
Directed by Fernando González Gómez and Raúl Cerezo, who wrote the script with Rubén Sánchez Trigos and Javier Trigales, The Elderly starts with an older woman falling off a balcony to her death and then deals with dementia, aging and the elderly telling their children that they plan on killing them. Yeah. Get ready. Manuel (Zorion Eguileor) […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Give Me An A (2022)
In just two months after the announcement that Roe vs. Wade would be overturned, a group of female filmmakers gathered to create this anthology of short films. They are: Hold Please: director Hannah Alline and writer Savannah Rose Scaffe God’s Plan: director and writer Avital Ash DTF: Director Bonnie Discepolo who co-wrote this short with […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Barber Westchester (2022)
Created by Jonni Phillips, this movie is the first production produced by her independent animation studio Herbert Sorbet Studios. It’s a continuation of Jonni’s 2019-2020 series Secrets and Lies in a Town of Sinners which told the many stories if the town of Des Amato, California. One of the characters, Barber Westchester, was a young […]
SLASHER MONTH: Puppet Master III: Toulon’s Revenge (1991)
Directed by David DeCoteau and written by Charles Band, C. Courtney Joyner and David Schmoeller, Puppet Master III is not a sequel but instead a prequel, starring Guy Rolfe as the creator of the many puppets that we’ve come to know, love and maybe be afraid of, the legendary Andre Toulon. When the story begins, Toulon […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Solomon King (1974)
Sal Watts wasn’t a movie star. He came from poverty and racism in Mississippi to California where he launched the Sal/Wa and Marsel record labels to showcase the music of local black performers, hosted local music show Soul Is, had several restaurants and owned Mr. Sal’s Fashion Stores, where he sold clothing made by local black fashion designers. Then, in […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Antares Paradox (2022)
Directed, written and filmed by Luis Tinoco — his first full-length movie — this movie is anchored by Andrea Trepat, who plays astrophysicist Alexandra Baeza. The entire film is spent with her, all in one room, as she works for SETI to find intelligent life in the universe. When a signal comes in from the […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 11: Sick Nurses (2007)
11. A Thai Horror Film. Life is cheap and Dr. Tar and his seven nurses have been sellingbodies on the black market, a scam that just might fall apart when he has an affair on one of the nurses with her sister. That girl, Tahwaan, tries to call the cops and gets killed by the […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11: Eyewash (1959)
11. GOLDEN OLDIES: Post-war/50’s movies, from the schlock to the awes. Robert Breer, who created this, said “In all my work I tried to amaze myself with something, and the only way you can amaze yourself is to create a situation in which an accident can happen.” His father, Carl, was an automotive engineer who designed […]
SLASHER MONTH: Don’t Fuck In the Woods 2 (2022)
As long as we have movies we will have summer camps filled with boned-up counselors who make the most critical of mistakes: fucking in the woods. It happened in the first movie back in 2016 and it assuredly happens here. Let me tell you, if this came out in the 80s, high schoolers would have […]
Frost (2022)
Directed by Brandon Slagle (Crossbreed), based on James Cullen Bressack’s story and adapted by Robert Thompson, Forst stars Vernon Wells as Grant and Devanny Pinn as Abbey, a father and daughter who have not seen one another for years. She wants him to be part of her life as well as the part of the […]
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