GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: Shorts round 4
Here’s the last set of shorts that I watched at GenreBlast Film Festival. Knit One, Stab Two: This essay film examines the representation of knitters and knitting, in over sixty horror films made by women, from the 1920s – 2020s, across South America, Europe, North America and East Asia. Alison Peirse — who also made […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: End Zone 2 (1970)
Whatever side you’re on when it comes to the controversy between whether Mikey Smash or William Mouth played Smash Mouth in the sequel to Warren Q. Harolds’ 1965 slasher End Zone, you can say quite simply that they’re both better than Snead Crump when it comes to menacing Angela Smazmoth (Julie Kane). Now that there’s a […]
GENREBLAST FILM FESTIVAL 2023: The Once and Future Smash (2022)
With appearances by Mark Patton (Nightmare on Elm Street 2), Laurene Landon (Maniac Cop), Richard Elfman (Forbidden Zone), Mark Torgl (Toxic Avenger), Melanie Kinnaman (Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning), V.C. DuPree (Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan), Victor Miller (Friday the 13th), Marc Sheffler (Last House on the Left), Carl […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Child of Darkness, Child of Light (1991)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Child of Darkness, Child of Light aired on USA Up All Night on June 11, 1993. Based on the James Patterson novel Virgin (which has been retitled Cradle and All), Child of Darkness, Child of Light was directed by Marina Sargenti, who made one of my favorite early 90s movies, Mirror, Mirror. It was written for TV by Brian Taggert, who […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: Cemetery High (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cemetery High aired on USA Up All Night on May 10 and October 5, 1991; July 25, 1992 and January 29, 1993. Gorman Bechard can always be counted on to give you a movie that’s not expected, like his undervalued slasher Disconnected. So what happened here? Co-written with Carmine Capobianco, Cemetery High is every woman on man […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT MONTH: The Boy from Hell (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Boy from Hell aired on USA Up All Night on June 7, 1991, January 2, 1992 and September 1, 1993. Also known as Bloodspell, this is all about Daniel (Anthony Jenkins), who has been sent to Saint Boniface, a home for troubled teens by his mother Jane to protect him from his father Luther who is — […]
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