TUBI ORIGINAL: Defying Death: Surviving Jaws (2023)
With the help of experts, advocates and marine biologists, as well as survivors of near-death encounters, this documentary seeks to look into the pop culture myths about sharks and show just how true they are. Directed by Victoria Duley (Queen of Cocaine, Sins of the Father: The Green River Killer) and written by Savannah Lucas […]
Space Monster Wangmagwi (1967)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Exploitation-film historian A.C. Nicholas, who has a sketchy background and hails from parts unknown in Western Pennsylvania, was once a drive-in theater projectionist and disk jockey. Currently, in addition to being a writer, editor, podcaster, and voice-over artist, he is a regular guest co-host on the streaming Drive-In Asylum Double Feature and […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Invoking Yell (2023)
South of Chile, if not heaven, a trio of twenty-something women have formed a black metal band, Invoking Yell, and taken to the woods to record their first album. They decide that to capture their sound, they need to find psicofonias, quite literally the voices of dead children killed in a schoolbus accident, inside the […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Dark Windows (2023)
Tilly (Anna Bullard), Monica (Annie Hamilton), Peter (Rory Alexander) and Allison (Grace Binford Sheene).are in a car crash and everyone survives except Allison, whose uncle blames them for her death. Monica has a plan for the summer, as she thinks they should all get out of town and go to the country. That way they […]
THE FILMS OF ALVARO PASSERI: Psychovision (2003)
From the very beginning of this movie, you know that you are in the world of Alvaro Passeri and it is a very strange place. The camera pans down a long hallway inside a hospital and there we see labs, operating rooms and storage rooms, all rendering in extreme detail but also looking like paintings. […]
THE FILMS OF ALVARO PASSERI: Flight to Hell (2003)
Roulette One is a flying luxury casino filled with millionaires and a casino manager who plans on robbing them thanks to his computer programmed to cheat. But then the plane flies through a cloud and everyone on board starts to either become a monster or become eaten by those monsters. If anyone else made this […]
THE FILMS OF ALVARO PASSERI: The Mummy Theme Park (2000)
I used to worry that I would run out of berserk Italian movies, especially when the 1990s give way to the 2000s but that shows what I know, because The Mummy Theme Park is one of the most baffling, weird, wonderful and just plain strange movies that I’ve seen. Alvaro Passeri has only directed five movies*, including Plankton, Flight […]
THE FILMS OF ALVARO PASSERI: Fantastic Games (1998)
Let me just let Alvaro Passeri tell you what this movie is about. “It’s Christmas Eve and the snow is falling gently all around a log cabin. This is the home of Mary. who lives here with her family. She has a serious case of flu and is lying in bed with a very high […]
THE FILMS OF ALVARO PASSERI: Creatures from the Abyss/Plankton (1994)
It’s rare for Becca to get as upset about a movie as Plankton, but I’ve heard about this movie repeatedly since she watched it with me and with good reason. It’s the kind of movie so bad that it circles the sun like Christopher Reeve Superman and comes back twice as horrible as it was before. […]
FANTASTIC FEST 2023 IS COMING!
ake a trip to the dark side and indulge your taste for wild films, outrageous events, and shocking surprises all under one roof. World-famous genre festival Fantastic Fest is back for its eighteenth edition featuring 29 World Premieres, 24 North American Premieres, and 18 U.S. Premieres. The festival will once again possess Alamo Drafthouse South […]
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