POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Nightmare (1981)
After mutilating and murdering a family, George Tatum has been jailed for years. Now, he has been given the opportunity to be reprogrammed and returned to society. That said — he still has nightmares of his childhood and a trip to a Times Square peep show unlocks flashbacks that make him a killer all over […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Sour Party (2023)
Gwen (Samantha Westervelt) and James (Amanda Drexton, who co-directed this with Michael A. Drexton and co-wrote this with him and Westervelt) are going nowhere and doing nothing but still have to get to a baby shower for Gwen’s sister where the only gift left on the registry is Baby’s First Wellness Kit, complete with essential […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Wintertide (2023)
Directed by John Barnard, who co-wrote the script with Carrie-May Siggins, Wintertide is about Beth (Niamh Carolan) whose world is battling a plague brought on by unending days of night and near-constant winter. She’s trapped in an isolated northern town close to Manitoba where the few people left are mindless zombies, overcome by depression, but at […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Blood (1973)
This movie is under seventy minutes and is packed with so many things that it feels like going to one of those conveyer belt sushi places and being overwhelmed by all the things you want to eat and then trying to remember all of the ingredients. Lawrence Orlovsky (Allan Berendt) and his wife Regina Dracula […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Carnage (1984)
Starting with a murder/suicide, Carnage is about love. Three years later in the same house as that tragedy, Carol (Leslie Den Dooven) and Jonathan Henderson (Michael Chiodo) move in. They got the house for cheap and they even threw in the furniture. There’s even a photo of the last occupants, which is yanked somehow out of […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Torture Dungeon (1970)
“I’m trisexual — I’ll try anything for pleasure!” Any movie that has this line, no matter what happens in it, has something good in it. Norman (Gerald Jaccuzo) is The Duke Of Norwich. When his half-brother is killed, he gets closer to the throne, which makes him filled with a need for power. He sets […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: Nightbirds (1970)
One of five movies that Andy Milligan was to shoot for British distributor Leslie Elliot — before the falling out with Elliot’s father, who was his business partner — Nightbirds was written on the plane to England. It’s not the normal — well, was anything he did normal? — horror movie that Milligan was getting known […]
THE FILMS OF ANDY MILLIGAN: The Body Beneath (1970)
Making his way to England instead of Staten Island, Andy Milligan created a vampire movie in which Rev. Alexander Algernon Ford (Gavin Reed) has an entire family of vampires — a wife who doesn’t speak, three green-skinned vampire women and a hunchback named Spool — living in Carfax Abbey. Inbreeding is destroying this vampiric brood, […]
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