MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Ghoulies II (1987)
Directed and written by Albert Band, this was the last Ghoulies movie to have any involvement from Charles Band, who sold the rights to Vestron Pictures to save Empire Pictures. The ghoulies hit the road in this one, hiding in a truck that’s carrying a dark ride for a carnival. If Satan’s Den doesn’t start bringing […]
MVD BLU RAY RELEASE: Ghoulies (1985)
I remember seeing the cover to Ghoulies at Prime Time Video and like some kind of snobbery moron, I never rented it. What was I thinking? Did I think it was a ripoff of Gremlins and not worth watching? I was half right, because it is, but it’s way better than it has any right to be. […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Crypto Shadows (2023)
I don’t understand cryptocurrency, but perhaps this movie — which also reflects Gamergate — proves to me that it’s so frightening that maybe I’m better off this way. In an attempt to remove herself from the sexual harassment at her game development job in the city, coder Cara Hammond (Mikayla Iverson) has gone into the […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Forever Home (2023)
Directed by Sean Oliver, who co-wrote Forever Home with Drew Leatham, this is the tale of Ryan (Leatham) and Jules (Sammie Lideen), a young couple who have moved across the country and somehow unwittingly spent all of their money on a new home. To top it all off, they soon learn that it’s haunted. Before that, […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Shorts round 2
Here’s the next set of shorts that I watched at GenreBlast Film Festival. Biters and Bleeders: Tad (Christopher Malcolm) and Penelope (Raven Angeline Whisnant) have fallen on hard times. At once he acts like a child and yet dominates her. When his mother (Joyce Wood) dies, he inherits the family home and thinks that it will […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Project Eerie (2023)
On Halloween, 2020, Jesse and Jacob Warner (Braydan Wade and Jacob) disappeared while they were in the middle of a social media live stream. Project Eerie is the found footage film that purports to be that live stream. Directed and written by Ricky Umberger (The Fear Footage, The Fear Footage 2: Curse of the Tape and The Fear […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Stuck On You! (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Stuck On You! aired on USA Up All Night on January 7, 1989 as the second movie ever shown on the late night movie show. It also played on June 6 and October 29 of that year, as well as March 10, 1990. Stuck On You! was supposedly based on the writings of writings of Tom Lehrer […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Message from Space (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Message from Space aired as the third movie on USA Up All Night on December 1, 1990. At nearly half the budget of Star Wars — $6 to $7 million dollars — Message from Space was the most expensive movie in Japanese history up until 1980. At the time, it was routinely panned by the critics. Yet […]
Night Gallery Season 3 Episode 13: Whisper (1973)
Directed by Night Gallery regular Jeannot Szwarc and written by David Rayfiel from a story by Martin Waddell, “Whisper” has Sally Field and Dean Stockwell as Irene and Charlie Evans. He used to work as an architect, but his wife hasn’t been herself. Literally. Irene and Charlie have moved to rural Mississippi because she channels the […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Cheerleaders Beach Party (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cheerleader’s Beach Party was the first movie ever played on USA Up All Night on January 7, 1989. It played five more times after that: April 22 and October 6, 1989; March 16 and 17 and September 15, 1990. Alex E. Goitein had already made Cherry Hill High for Cannon, but now he had Chuck Vincent writing […]
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