Chattanooga Film Festival 2024: Funsized Epics Vol. 1
Join CFF as we take a journey into the longer side of short cinema. One of the many joys of presenting our festival in a hybrid format is that it allows us to include so many amazing films that our time limitations during our in-person days wouldn’t allow, and it also gives us the freedom […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Satanis: The Devil’s Mass (1970)
This 1970 documentary about Anton LaVey and the Church of Satan that was directed and produced by Ray Laurent, whose only other credits involve editing some films, including one of the Lemon Grove Kids films that Ray Dennis Steckler directed. Within this movie, there’s plenty of ritual footage, as well as interviews with LaVey, his […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Teen-Age Strangler (1964)
Bleeding Skull’s Top 50 (July 7 – 13) The middle-brow champions of low-brow horror, Bleeding Skull has picked out some of their favorites from the SWV catalog. They neglected to put I Drink Your Blood or EEGAH! on the list, but I think I can forgive them since they included Ship of Monsters. Made in Huntington, West Virginia, Teen-Age Stranger was directed […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Rocky III (1982)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rocky III was on the CBS Late Movie on September 29, 1989 and October 26, 1990. Rocky III did more than just extend the franchise. It boosted the careers of two nascent superheroic characters, Mr. T and Hulk Hogan, as they made their way into the 1980’s cultural zeitgeist and even a titanic […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Rocky II (1979)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Rocky II was on the CBS Late Movie on November 18, 1988. After the success of Rocky, the producers were eager to make a sequel. While Sylvester Stallone would write the script and star again, John G. Avildsen was tied to Saturday Night Fever (a script disagreement led to him being removed from the […]
JAPAN CUTS 2024: Performing Kaoru’s Funeral (2024)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: Amber Waves (1980)
Laurence Kendall (Kurt Russell) is a wanderer, a model stranded in the middle of nowhere who happens upon the farm of Elroy “Bud” Burkhardt (Dennis Weaver), a wheat harvester who is dealing with economic issues and also dying of cancer. He has a daughter named Marlene (Mare Winningham) who dreams of leaving Kansas and a […]
JAPAN CUTS 2024: Look Back (2024)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Wiz (1978)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Wiz was on the CBS Late Movie on October 5, 1984. As discussed in the article on this site about Return of Oz, nearly every Oz movie has been a failure until Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful. While we traditionally believe that the 1939 version was a success, it wasn’t a financial […]
JAPAN CUTS 2024: Kubi (2024)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also […]
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