POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: T-Blockers (2023)
Director and co-writer Alice Maio Mackay is just eighteen years old, but across her last two films — So Vam and Bad Girl Boogey — she’s improved from an already solid start. Now, with T-Blockers, co-written with Benjamin Pahl Robinson, there’s another leap forward. Sash VO (Joni Ayton-Kent Sash) is a young horror filmmaker with a cop dad that […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: The Last Movie Ever Made (2023)
Directed and written by Nathan Blackwell, this film finds Marshall (Adam Rini) at the end of the world, deciding that he should bring together a group of friends and strangers — and his ex-wife Audrey (Megan Rini — to make the movie he never finished in high school. How does everyone discover that the world […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Agatha (2022)
Hoping to find a cure to the disease that is destroying him from within, The Professor follows Agatha on a strange and risky journey into a forgotten but not entirely deserted urban wasteland. Sure, that’s the logline, but this film makes getting there so different, so trippy and so intense. Kelly Bigelow and Roland Becera […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Abruptio (2023)
Les Hackel (James Marsters) is down on his luck. Maybe even worse when he wakes up to find that an explosive device has been implanted in his neck. Now, he must carry out heinous crimes in order to stay alive while trying to identify the mastermind ordering him to keep killing. Also: This is a […]
THE FILMS OF COFFIN JOE: The Bloody Exorcism of Coffin Joe (1974)
After finishing his latest movie, Jose Mojica Marins gives an interview. He’s asked, “Does Coffin Joe exist?” Surely the answer is no. But then a camera light explodes and we wonder, Well, perhaps…” Mains stays with a friend to write his next movie, The Demon Exorcist. Everything seems normal at Alvaro’s house. His father Mr. […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Magic Cop (1990)
Some consider this the fifth film in the Mr. Vampire series. It stars Lam Ching-ying as Uncle Feng. Seeing as how he’s the hero — he’s also in the second and third movies in the Mr. Vampire films, as well as Vampire vs, Vampire and Encounters of the Spooky Kind II — you can figure out why this […]
CULT EPICS BLU RAY RELEASE: Broken Mirrors (1984)
Known in Holland as Gebroken Spiegels, Broken Mirrors is split between two stories. In one, Diane (Lineke Ripman) and Dora (Henriette Tol) are Amsterdam brothel workers at the Happy House Club who begin to tire of their lives. And in the other, a housewife named Bea (Edda Barends) is kidnapped by one of the johns and […]
THE FILMS OF COFFIN JOE: The Blind Date of Coffin Joe (2008)
On Raymond Castile’s website, he posted some photos dressed up like Coffin Joe. They looked incredible. In April of 2006, he learned that the real Coffin Joe — Jose Mojica Marins — had visited this page and loved it. Even better, in October of that year, Mojica and Dennison Ramalho, assistant director of the upcoming Encarnacao […]
WELL GO USA BLU RAY RELEASE: Night of the Assassin (2023)
Directed by Kwak Jeong-deok, Night of the Assassin is the story of a killing machine named Lee Nan (Shin Hyeon-jun), who discovers that he has a deadly, long-dormant health condition. As he goes into hiding to seek the magical herb that can heal him — mahwangcho — he learns that he can’t stay hidden for […]
THE FILMS OF COFFIN JOE: Embodiment of Evil (2008)
It took more than thirty years, but Coffin Joe was finally able to complete his story that began in At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul and This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse. Creator and star José Mojica Marins felt that since he compromised on the sending of the second film, he was cursed. Now, he […]
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