ARROW BOX SET RELEASE: Gothic Fantastico: The Blancheville Monster (1963)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can also check out this review by Dustin Fallon of The Blancheville Monster. Released in Italy as Horror, this film’s script by Gianni Grimaldi and Bruno Corbucci was said to be based on the works of Edgar Allan Poe. Sure, there are some parts of The Fall of the House of Usher, A […]
ARROW BOX SET RELEASE: Gothic Fantastico: Lady Morgan’s Vengeance (1965)
Massimo Pupillo also made Bloody Pit of Horror and Terror-Creatures from the Grave, but this would be the last horror movie he’d make. He said, “I started in the horror genre because I wanted to get out of documentaries, I wanted to enter the commercial market. In Italy, when you do a certain type of film, you become labeled […]
SLASHER MONTH: Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on August 20, 2018. Despite being direct to video releases (yes, some have had limited releases in theaters and the first was considered for theatrical release), the Puppet Master series is one that’s packed with content. Produced by Full Moon Features, the series started in 1989 with Puppet Master, which has […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 21: Visitor Q (2001)
21. A Horror Film That’s Shot on Mini-DV (But is not a found footage film). I don’t know if this is horror to be exact but it’s Takeshi Miike, so anything goes. Part of the Love Cinema series, which contains six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers that played an exclusive engagement at the Shimokitazawa cinema […]
TUBI PICKS: Week 21
Tubi picks are back. Do you have any picks of your own to share? 1. Bloodsucking Freaks: TUBI LINK Somehow, in the middle of comparatively chaste slashers, Bloodsucking Freaks was on the shelves of the mom and pop video store in my cozy and safe hometown. It made its way from the fecund streets of 1976 […]
Tales from the Darkside episode 19: Levitation
Frank (Brad Cowgill) and Arnie (Anthony Tomkins) have traveled for hours to see Kharma (Joe Turkel, Lloyd from The Shining) perform. Frank had heard that Kharma could do the kind of magic that only Houdini was able to conjure, yet he learns that the magician just does the simplest of magic. His assistant Flora (Cynthia Frost) […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: House of Traps (1982)
21. TRAPS: To lay or be laid, that is the question. Based on Shi Yukun’s The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, this Shaw Brothers movie has the Venom Mob and a house of, well, traps. Not a trap house. That’s different. Directed by Chang Cheh, this is the last Venom Mob movie. Lo Meng is […]
Carnival of Souls (1998)
Wes Craven Presents Carnival of Souls is directed by Adam Grossman, who also wrote the script, and Ian Kessner. It has nothing to do with Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls other than the name. What it does have is comedian Larry Miller as a carnival clown named Louis Seagram. In 1977, he raped and murdered the mother […]
SLASHER MONTH: Puppet Master: Axis Termination (2017)
Directed by Charles Band, who wrote this with Neal Marshall Stevens, Puppet Master: Axis Termination has Blade, Tunneler, Jester, Six Shooter and Leech Woman teaming up with Dr. Ivan Ivanov (George Appleby), his clairvoyant daughter Elisa (Tania Fox) and sex magic priestess Georgina (Alynxia America) to battle the Axis, who have Doktor Gerde Ernst (Tonya Kay), […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 20: The Blood Spattered Bride (1972)
20. A Horror Film That Features Testicular Trauma. La novia ensangrentada is based on Carmilla, that tale of forbidden Sapphic vampire love. Released as a double feature in the U.S. with I Dismember Mama, it even had a special trailer that had an audience member losing their marbles. Susan (Maribel Martín) is so newlywed that she shows […]
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