SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Lair (2022)
When Royal Air Force pilot Captain Kate Sinclair (Charlotte Kirk) is shot down during her final mission, she somehow discovers an abandoned bunker where Russian scientists once spliced human and alien DNA to make a weapon. A weapon that is now awake. A strong woman finding monsters in a cave. You know who directed a […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Nightmare at Noon (1988)
Ken Griffiths (Wings Hauser) and his wife Cheri (Kimberly Beck, Massacre at Central High) are traveling across the highways of America via recreational vehicle — which as I’m obsessed with RV horror I already know is a bad idea — when they pick up ex-cop hitchhiker Reilly (Bo Hopkins), which also seems like a bad idea […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Death Whistles the Blues (1962)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can read Sean Mitus’ article about this movie here. Jess Franco remade this in 1977 as Kiss Me Killer, but before that, this black and white slice of noir feels like an altogether different director. Sure, there’s jazz — Franco himself is playing saxophone in one scene — but this looks and feels […]
Night Gallery season 2 episode 5: The Phantom Farmhouse/Silent Snow, Secret Snow
Night Gallery works best when it’s longer stories and not — am I a broken record yet? — the excruciating black out shorts. This episode also has a more experimental first story and I love when the show tries to break new ground. “The Phantom Farmhouse” is about a sanitarium that allows its patients to […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Burning Up Inside (1979)
Jenny (Susan Hemingway, whose entire acting career consists of being in Jess Franco’s Voces de muerte, Erotic Symphony, Two Female Spies with Flowered Panties, Elles font tout, Women in Cellblock 9 and Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun) is the virginal daughter of a prominent industrialist. Tom (Didier Aubriot) and Lorna (Brigitte Lahaie, a woman that […]
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