2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: Timer (2009)
28. COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION: Watch a race-against-timer. Oh, the tension… Before WandaVision and Agatha All Along, Jac Schaeffer directed, wrote and produced Timer, a film about a wrist implant that counts down to the day when the wearer will meet their soulmate. Oona (Emma Caulfield) has a blank Timer, which means that her soulmate is not wearing one. […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: House of the Black Death (1965)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Gothic horror There’s nothing like a gothic horror […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville Job Interview (2023)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The I Hope You Suffer podcast said that “Since everybody is doing these movie challenges now, we made the only one worth doing.” Bring the pain. Directed and written by Nick Box and Stuart Fitzsimmons, this was originally released in 2018 as Strange Vibes. It’s the tale of Alana (Jade Mason), a young woman who is […]
CHILLER THEATER: The Vampire Bat (1933)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Vampire Bat was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 9, 1967 at 11:20 p.m. and Saturday, August 22, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. This episode was a welcome return, as the week before Chiller Theater was preempted for Adios Stakes Race at the Meadows and Midnight Put-On! Teenage Dance Party. In the village of Kleinschloss, […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
EDITOR’S NOTE: First Spaceship On Venus was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 23, 1976 at 11:30 p.m., Saturday, July 19, 1980 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, September 5, 1981 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, March 27, 1982 at 1:00 a.m. Also known as Planet of the Dead and Spaceship Venus Does Not Reply, this is really […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Zontar, the Thing from Venus (1967)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Zontar, the Thing from Venus was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 7, 1968 at 11:20 p.m., Saturday, April 18, 1970 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, November 27, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. Zontar, the Thing from Venus is one of the many remakes of Roger Corman movies — this one is It Conquered the World — […]
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