2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Exhuma (2024)
30. EXHUMATION POINT: Digging up the past one coffin at a tomb time. Korean shaman Lee Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her assistant Yoon Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) have been hired by a wealthy Korean American family to determine why their infant son is sick. It turns out to be something called the Grave’s Call, as an […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
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: Hammer Time Peter Cushing was originally cast in […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: Back from the Dead (1957)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Back from the Dead was on Chiller Theater on Sunday, May 17, 1964 at 11:10 p.m. Charles Marquis Warren directed this and the film it played double features with, The Unknown Terror, before creating Rawhide and adapting Gunsmoke to television. It was written by Catherine Turney and was based on her book The Other One. Dick (Arthur […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville Outhouse (2022)
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 Adam Thorn, this is an anthology where a man who needs to use an outhouse on a nature trail is blocked by an old hermit […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Ape (1940)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Ape was on Chiller Theater on February 1, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. and Saturday, December 17, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. William Nigh had already made this movie before as The House of Mystery, but now he had Boris Karloff as the lead. As Dr. Bernard Adrian, he’s trying to cure polio through that […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: The Maze (1953)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Maze was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 30, 1966 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, March 10, 1973 at 1:00 a.m., Saturday, January 24, 1976 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, April 29, 1978 at 11:30 p.m. William Cameron Menzies invented the term production designer. Let that sink in. He directed Chandu the Magician, Things to […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Johnny Dangerously (1984)
29. RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB: An antagonist is only as good as his implements. Directed by Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and written by Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris (Kukoff and Harris created Diff’rent Strokes), Harry Colomby and Norman Steinberg, this felt like a movie I watched on cable so many times as a […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2024: Srigala (1981)
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: Slasher Sisworo Gautama Putra also made Satan’s Slaves, but […]
I HOPE YOU SUFFER OCTOBER FILM CHALLENGE: Amityville Ride-Share (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. You know you’re in for it when the description on IMDB says, “Some kinda horror-anthology nonsense hijacking the Amityville brand.” This claims to be found footage found in an […]
THE DIA HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!
This Thursday night at the most frightening hour of 9 PM EDT, Bill and I will be appearing live and streaming on the Groovy Doom Facebook or YouTube channels to show Track of the Moon Beast, our special Halloween event. You can watch the movie on Plex and YouTube. And if you’re not brave, you can […]
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