FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Something In the Dirt (2022)
Directors and stars Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Benson also wrote the script) also made Spring, The Endless, Synchronic and Resolution — as well as episodes of Marvel’s Moon Knight and Loki as well as Archive 81 and The Twilight Zone together. This time, they play Levi and John, two neighbors in a Los Angeles apartment building who discover a paranormal event and decide to […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: JSA: Joint Security Area (2000)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on January 20, 2021. It’s back as it played during Fantastic Fest. In 2009, director Quentin Tarantino placed JSA amongst his top twenty films since 1992. Directed by Park Chan-wook, who also made Oldboy, this film tells the tale of a fatal shooting within the DMZ that exists […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Mako, The Jaws of Death (1976)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Yes, this just ran on the site a few weeks ago. However, this played live at Fantastic Fest and my Letterboxd list must be complete! The Florida-based director William Grefe has brought many swamp-tinged bits of exploitation goodness — or badness — to the screen, such as Alligator Alley, The Wild Rebels, The Hooked Generation and […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Living With Chucky (2022)
You may have grown up afraid of Chucky but you didn’t live the life of Kyra Elise Gardner, the director and writer (with Jason Strickland) of this documentary, as she’s the daughter of special effects master Tony Gardner, and in her house were the half-built parts of Chucky and Tiffany from the movie Seed of […]
FANTASTIC FEST: Gamera vs. Zigra (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on March 30, 2020. It played live at Fantastic Fest. Shortly after Gamera vs. Zigra was completed, the film’s production studio, Daiei Film, went bankrupt. As a result, the film was distributed by another company called Dainichi Eihai. It only cost around $97,000, which is pretty amazing […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou (2022)
Once, Jacky (Thomas Parigi) was content to wander the village and record sounds to use in ths songs that he made in secret. But after the death of his grandmother Gisèle, who was known to be the village healer and magnetizer, he finds himself developing her powers. Just in time — wolves are attacking and […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2022: Hundreds of Beavers (2022)
The same people who made this made the equally wild Lake Michigan Monster. Let me sell you on this: it’s a Merrie Melodies-influenced black and white no dialogue movie about an applejack maker whose life is ruined by beavers, so he fights back against them as a trapped and finds himself up against, well, hundreds of […]
SLASHER MONTH: Child’s Play (1988)
Don Mancini took his trouble relationship with his dad, his experiences of being alienated as a gay man and his worries about the impact of 80s sell sell sell on children and turned it into a series of films that still exist to this day. It’s a cauldron brimming with influences, from Trilogy of Terrror‘s evil […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 1: Ernest Scared Stupid (1991)
Day 1. A Horror Film Seemingly For Kids. That’s Way Too Scary For Kids. Ernest P. Worrell (Jim Varney) started in a series of television commercials shot at the Nashville-area home of producer John Cherry III and Jerry Carden. Starting in 1980, they eventually did 25 different versions of each commercial and Varney would just […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
DAY 1: START SMALL: It may seem cute at first, but these little ones are always a challenge. Watch one with an evil offspring in it. You know, I thought I was made of some harder stuff, but the credits to this movie absolutely decimated me, setting up a mood of pure dread I haven’t […]
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