POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Silent Madness (1984)
Shot with the ArriVision 3-D camera system, Silent Madness wasn’t just late to the 80’s 3D revival, it was late to the slasher madness too. It was directed by Simon Nuchtern, president of August Films. He brought over plenty of foreign films and had them re-edited for American tastes, like the film that the Findlays […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Jaws 3D (1983)
If you are a regular visitor to our site, you may realize that we love shark movies. We have a whole Letterboxd list devoted to them. While Sam’s taste may veer toward the ripoff side of the Jaws equation, Becca’s heart is with the sequels, even Jaws: The Revenge. After a career as a production designer — […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Puzzle Box (2023)
Kait (Kaitlyn Boyé) is trying to self-rehabilitate from her drug habit with her sister Olivia (Laneikka Denne) filming the entire journey. Yet the house they have picked to undergo this process in keeps warping and changing, threatening to trap them forever. Directed and written by Jack Dignan, this Australian found footage film places the sisters […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Saint Drogo (2023)
Co-director/co-writer/actor Michael J. Ahern, co-director/co-writer/actor Brandon Perras-Sanchez and co-director/cinematographer/editor Ryan Miller also made Death Drop Gorgeous, a movie I loved, and they didn’t slow down here, opening the film with a man slicing open his own stomach and pulled out his intestines. You know, start strong. Caleb (Perras-Sanchez) and Adrian (Ahern) are on holiday in […]
Scared Stiff (1987)
Yes, 1987 had two movies named Scared Stiff. This is the Lau Kar-wing-directed remix of Dreamscape. Maybe some Scanners, too. David Miu Tai-wai (Michael Miu) is a psychiatrist helping street people who is followed around by his friend Halley Tsang Siu-wai (Eric Tsang). For the first part of the movie, they get into wacky guy hijinks like […]
Balawis (1996)
Mr. Ventura (Jaime Fabregas), Ken (Dan Fernandez), Nats (Daniel Pasia) and Desiree (Joanne Quintas) are in the jungle looking for a great treasure, but what they find is a gigantic creature that looks like a Big Daddy Roth character mixed with The Pitt or some other post-McFarland 90s comic book monster with huge teeth. There […]
2016 (2010)
Directed by Samuel K. Nkansah — AKA Ninja — 2016 is the kind of movie that doesn’t just bring you xenomorphs and Predators, it also throws in some Terminators. I’m frankly shocked that Chucky didn’t show up. These xenomorphs are way smarter than any we’ve seen in the Aliens series. They’re here to colonize Earth, starting with Accra, […]
The Doll (2016)
Directed by Rocky Soraya, who wrote the film with Riheam Junianti, The Doll starts when Daniel (Denny Sumargo) and his wife Anya (Shandy Aulia) move to a new city thanks to his new job. The first person Anya meets is Niken (Vitta Mariana Barrazza), who believes in the supernatural. She also gets a doll from her […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Blind Waters (2023)
Blind Waters wastes no time, having two people swim off a yacht and get devoured by a shark with no explanation. Do I need one? After all, I’m watching a shark movie by The Asylum at one in the morning. I guess this at least has some shark movie pedigree, as it was directed and written […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Echo Base (2023)
Skylar Reagan (Alicia Ziegler) is having some problems. She failed her last training exercise, one where she was asked to fire nuclear warheads on London after butting heads with her deputy — and one-time lover — Malik Wheeler (Chris Jones). When he commanding officer Kathleen Wolff (Carolyn Hennesy) remarks that she needs people who will […]
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