Fantastic Fest 2022 recap
What an experience! I love Fantastic Fest and every year, while exhausting in the best of ways, the benefits of watching so many movies in so short a time always reminds me just how much I love writing and creating this site. Here’s a list of what I watched this year. You can also check […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Local Legends (2013)
Directed and written by its star, Matt Farley, Local Legends is a black and white loose adaption of, well, Matt Farley’s life. It’s probably the best explanation for why the films of Farley and Charlie Roxburgh work so well. How can one man have seventy bands, make a movie or two a year, release 23,000 songs […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Unidentified Objects (2022) and interview with director Juan Felipe Zuleta and musician Sebastian Zuleta
Peter (Matthew Jeffers) is an alien in so many worlds based on how people see both his dwarfism and sexual identity as a gay man. Therefore, he avoids nearly everyone. But his neighbor Winona (Sarah Hay, The Mortuary Collection) pushes past that and asks him for a ride to Canada to meet up with the aliens […]
SLASHER MONTH: Puppet Master 4 (1993)
The puppets who were once evil have now become good where new bad puppets come on in this sequel to Puppet Master 2. The demon Sutekh has sent the Totems to kill anyone who has the power of animation, including some researchers and Rick Myers (Gordon Currie), who believes that the puppets of Toulon are early […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Unidentified (2022)
Thirty years ago, a spherical UFO appeared in the sky above several cities on Earth and then remained there, just floating. Some believe that the aliens that piloted them now live amongst us, which leads to unrest and outright violence among the inhabitants of Earth. Directed and writer Jude Chun has created a series of […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE 12: The Stone Tape (1972)
12. A Horror Film Written by Nigel Keale. Nigel Keale exists at the center of two lines, between horror and science fiction, finding ancient evil with modern technology, placing learned men in the howling maw of ancient occult terror. Also: this movie has informed so much of my own theories on hauntings. We aren’t seeing […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12: Eggshells (1969)
12. IT’S A REAL FREAK SCENE, JACK: A groovy 60’s grinder. Tobe Hooper’s first movie, which he co-wrote with Kim Henkel, is a story about a weird house in Texas, which is definitely a theme Hooper would come back to, but this one has a strange presence in the basement that starts influencing the hippies […]
Sawed Off (2022)
Marjorie (Eva Hamilton, Ruin Me) was once with Jon (Jody Barton, Ugly Sweater Party) and maybe even had a thing with his hunting partner Frank (Trae Ireland). Now, they find themselves on cursed land and end up killing one another again and again. Written by director Hunter Johnson, Barton and Chuck Wagner, who originally published this […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Happy Birthday to Me (1981)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site many years ago. June 15, 2018 if you want an exact date. Yet now it’s back because Kino Lorber has re-released it on blu ray along with so many extras, including an interview with actress Tracey E. Bregman, new audio commentary by co-screenwriter Timothy Bond moderated by historian […]
They Crawl Beneath (2022)
Police officer Danny (Joseph Almani) is working on an antique car at his uncle’s remote ranch when an earthquake traps him under the vehicle and leaves him hurt and unable to get any help. But then, something worse happens: something crawls out of the cracks. Michael Paré plays the uncle and honestly, that’s what got […]
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