DEAF CROCODILE STREAMING AND BLU RAY COLLECTION: The Time-Bending Mysteries of Shahram Mokr
Deaf Crocodile Films — who released the amazing Solomon King on blu ray this year — has also released four feature films by acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Shahram Mokri on demand for U.S. audiences. The four films will be available on Amazon, iTunes and Projectr and tell the stories of aerial killers, kite flyers, vampires and arsonists who […]
Twisted (2022)
Vibeke Muasya, who directed and co-wrote this film with Nikolaj Scherfig (who was in the script and continuity department for Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher), has created a dark and intriguing film here. Hannah (Madeleine Masson) has suffered since the death of her father and how much her mother Silvia (Karen Leigh Sharp) has started intruding into […]
Firenado (2023)
Directed by Rhys Frake-Waterfield (who has a ton of PR thanks to his movie Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey; he also made The Area 51 Incident) and Scott Jeffrey (Escape from Death Block 13, Exorcist Vengeance) and writer Tom Jolliffe, Firenado starts when Devlin (Toby Wynn-Davies) learns how to control a tornado. But then, as these things happen, […]
Those Who Call (2021)
Shot in Magnolia, TX and based on a Cuban folk tale, director and writer Anubys Lopez’s first film finds sisters Ana (Angie Sandoval) and Sandra (Yetlanezi Rodriguez) taking a roadtrip to reconnect and going through Whispering Pines, the kind of town where even the gas station owners try to attack you when you want to […]
Like Father, Like Daughter (2022)
Serial killer Kyle Wheeler (Ken Brewer, who also directed and co-wrote this movie with Meri Gyetvay) and his even more murderous daughter Nancy (Kaitlin Kinner) have just walked into the park where retired San Francisco cop Matt (Doug Waugh) has just started his new retirement job. Now, he and fellow rangers Cletus (Joe D’Auganno) and […]
Down and Out in Vampire Hills (2022)
Vampire Penelope (Dawna Lee Helsing) and her thrall Harold (Ken May) are a good lesson for all would-be vampires out there in the world. That’s because despite getting eternal life, life itself keeps on happening, including the need to find a job, earn a living and pay for where your coffin rests. Living in a […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: The Living Dead Girl (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This first was posted on November 18, 2022. Jean Rollin had such a rough introduction to film — being chased by the forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco while making a documentary, running out of money, causing scandals, suffering an accident during the filming of La Vampire Nue which left him traumatized — that […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: The Escapees (1981)
Also known as Les paumées du petit matin (The Dawns of the Early Morning) and The Runaways, this begins in a mental asylum run by nuns. There, Michelle (Laurence Dubas) has returned after escaping and is placed in a straitjacket. She’s soon freed by a new patient named Marie (Christiane Coppé) and the two run […]
Night Gallery season 2 episode 1: The Boy Who Predicted Earthquakes/Miss Lovecraft Sent Me/The Hand of Borgus Weems/Phantom of What Opera?
As Night Gallery moved into its second season, it would start becoming schizophrenic, caught between the darkness and the light of pained comedy or more to the point, creator Rod Serling versus producer Jack Laird. Yet when it works, well, man does it work. I think about “The Boy That Predicted Earthquakes” so often. Directed by […]
JEAN ROLLIN-UARY: Night of the Hunted (1980)
While she was still working in adult films, Brigitte Lahaie met and worked for Jean Rollin on the movie Vibrations Sensuelles (Sensual Vibrations). He noted that she had a “distinctly different personality” and an “incredible charisma,” so he remembered her when he made The Grapes of Death a few years later as well as Fascination. He’d also […]
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