Night Gallery season 2 episode 4: A Fear of Spiders/Junior/Marmalade Wine/The Academy
Another Friday, another Night Gallery. Ah, the magic of the past, the paintings hanging in abject blackness. Let’s get scared. “A Fear of Spiders” tells the story of restaurant critic Justus Walters (Patrick O’Neal, The Stuff), a man afraid of spiders who is now dealing with several in his apartment, forcing him to turn to Elizabeth […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Sex Charade (1970)
Sex Charade is the kind of lost film that will push a Jess Franco fan to the brink. I mean, just look at the cast: Diana Lorys (Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll, Fangs of the Living Dead), Maria Rohm (Venus In Furs, 99 Women) and, perhaps most essentially, Franco’s obsession Soledad Miranda (Vampyros Lesbos, She Killed In […]
Calvaire Re-Mastered (2004)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on December 24, 2022, but I’m excited to share that this New French Extremity classic will open in theaters — with an HD remaster — beginning February 24 followed by arriving on digital on March 3, 2023. Yellow Veil Pictures will also release it as a collector’s […]
Trailer for Gray People
From United Blade Entertainment, and featuring Michelle Nuñez from TV’s Ruthless, Gray People is now streaming for free on PLEX TV. Nick, facing mounting pressure from his mother to find a job and desperately trying to own a start-up, enlists the help of his best friend Kyle, a privileged slacker, living his best life. Running out […]
MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Men At Work (1990)
Carl Taylor and James St. James (Charlie Sheen and his brother Emilio Estevez, who directed and wrote this) dream of owning a surfboard store but for now they’re picking up trash. The thing is, if they kept at this job — and this is old me and not young me who saw this back in […]
KINO LORDER BLU RAY RELEASE: Programmed to Kill (1987)
International terrorist leader Fatima (Sandahl Bergman, She, Hell Comes to Frogtown) tries to hijack a plane and runs right into a secret task force called the Retaliators and their leader Eric Matthews (Robert Ginty, Exterminator 2) and finds herself critically wounded. For some reason, the U.S. government takes her and turns her into a cyborg killing machine — I […]
Exclusive interview with Dusty Nelson
There was a time when movies weren’t just made in Pittsburgh but actually came from Pittsburgh. Dusty Nelson is one of the people that made one of the best ones, Effects. The rest of the world may have taken forty years or so to figure that out, but now it’s recognized as the work of art […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Dark Mission: Flowers of Evil (1988)
CIA agent Derek Carpenter (Christopher Mitchum) has been sent to Lima by his boss Lieutenant Sparks (Richard Harrison) to stop drug dealer and one-time Castro supporter Luis Morel (Christopher Lee). He meets up with Moira (Brigitte Lahaie), a woman who wants revenge on Morel for killing her husband, and falls for Linda (Christina Higueras), Morell’s daughter who […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Al otro lado del espejo (1973)
The Other Side of the Mirror is about Ana (Emma Cohen, Horror Rises from the Tomb) is a jazz singer who calls off her engagement to Arturo after her father (Howard Vernon, I mean, this is a Jess Franco movie) kills himself. She calls off the wedding, leaves behind her hometown and soon figures out that […]
Bloody Hell (2021)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on January 30, 2021 but now that the film is on Tubi, I wanted to inform you, dear reader, as this is a fun one. Bloody Hell is an absolute blast. I have no fancy words to add, really — I’ll try — but I was absorbed by […]
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