POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Beaten to Death (2023)
Directed by Sam Curtain, who co-wrote this with Benjamin Jung-Clarke, Beaten to Death starts with Jack (Thomas Roach) being brutalized by Ricky (Justan Wagner) as the body of his wife Rachel (Nicole Tudor) lies dead next to them. Barely alive, Jack stabs the man in the throat and stumbles out of the room. He runs into […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is not a movie. It is a force of nature. Where Night of the Living Dead took 1960s horror past giant monsters and gothic monsters into modern concerns within the conceit of zombies. This film doesn’t need to exist within the supernatural. In fact, it’s so outside the realm of the unreal that […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Nightbreed (1999)
I decided to go with the unfairly maligned Nightbreed, a movie that I haven’t seen since it played in theaters in 1990. Directed by Clive Barker and based on his 1988 novella Cabal, this movie was a commercial and critical failure. Barker has always claimed that the producers tried to sell the film as a run of […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Don’t Look Away (2023)
A gang of criminals unintentionally unleashes a supernatural force — a killer mannequin! — and a young woman named Frankie (Kelly Bastard) knows that it’s coming for her. In fact, the first time she sees it, she accidentally kills a trucker. And once you see the mannequin, it only stops stalking you when you’re dead. […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: A Wandering Path (The Story of Gilead Media) (2023)
Featuring interviews with the members of Thou, Neurosis, Enslaved, Panopticon, Emma Ruth Rundle, Yellow Eyes, Couch Slut, Blood Incantation, Krallice, Mizmor, Weigedood, Hell, Leech, Mania, Inter Arma and many more, as well as performances by several of those artists, A Wandering Path is really the story of Adam Bartlett, who started the Gilead Media record label in […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Fleshpot on 42nd Street (1972)
Shot with new permits or budget on the very real streets of New York City, Fleshpot on 42nd Street starts with two sex workers, Dusty Cole (Laura Cannon) and Cherry Lane (Neil Flanagan in drag), trying to make it in the world. But it all gets to be too much for Dusty, who quits the nightlife […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Bloodthirsty Butchers (1970)
Released as a double feature with Torture Dungeon, Bloodthirsty Butchers finds Andy Milligan making another one of the classics. Sweeney Todd to be exact. Sweeney Todd (John Miranda) and Maggie Lovett (Jane Hilary) come together to kill off their customers, steal their money and valuables, and give the bodies to Tobias Ragg (Berwick Kaler) to disposal. After a […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: House of Seven Belles (1979)
The description of this movie on IMDB: “The seven sisters of the outcast LeFleur family try to survive in a post-Civil War Deep South.” My wife’s description: “What is all that screaming downstairs?” There’s a version of this movie online and it’s as complete as it can be. Milligan ran out of money before he […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 11: Something in the Woodwork (1973)
Molly Wheatland (Geraldine Page) left her husband and found the bottle. But at least she has somewhere to live, a place that was cheap because everyone thinks that Jamie Dillman (John McMurtry) was shot by the police there when his criminal career ended. He’s been in the attic ever since, but Molly doesn’t care. She […]
Night Gallery Season 2 Episode 21: The Sins of the Fathers/You Can’t Get Help Like That Anymore (1972)
I apologize. As I was working on Season 2, I totally skipped this episode. And how could I? It’s one of the most memorable in the entire series. Anton LaVey specifically called out this episode. But more importantly, whenever people talked about the scariest movies that they had watched, my father always went back to […]
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