Murder, She Wrote S2 E10: Sticks and Stones (1985)
After Beverly Gareth is electrocuted in her bath, Cabot Cove is flooded with poison pen letters, which prove hard for the town to handle as Amos prepares to hand the reins over to a new sheriff, Harry Pierce. Jessica has her hands full with a travel writer who has come to stay with her for […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: The Awakening (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Awakening was on USA Up All Night on June 30, 1990. Based on Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars — which was also filmed as an episode of Mystery and Imagination as “The Curse of the Mummy,” Hammer’s Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb and the 90s movie Bram Stoker’s The Mummy — this […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Snowballing (1985)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Snowballing was on USA Up All Night on June 7 and 8, 1991 and January 17 and August 8, 1992. Snowballing may seem like a teen sex comedy — a Lemon Popsicle, if you will — but instead of being like Hot Dog…The Movie or Ski School, this feels closer to an American-International beach comedy than a sex hijinks […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Beau Is Afraid (2023)
Sept 1-7 John Waters Best of the Year Week: To be fair, these movies aren’t ALL funny, but JOHN WATERS is funny. He’s become more of a writer and public commentator these days. Still, he helps keep the arthouse from taking itself too seriously with his annual top-ten lists, while celebrating the comically serious. I […]
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Ripe and Marriaginalia (2025
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 […]
The Toxic Avenger (2025)
About the Author: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. Her latest book is Japanese Cult Cinema: Best of the Second Golden Age. She runs the podcast Cinema Junction, and writes for Horror & Sons and Drive-in Asylum. She regularly appears on the podcasts Japan on Film, Making Tarantino, Making Scorsese, The Rad Revivalhouse […]
USA UP ALL NIGHT: Far Out Man (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Far Out Man was on USA Up All Night on September 3, 1993. A hippie, the Far Out Man (Tommy Chong, who also directed and wrote this film), goes on a road trip with his son, Kyle (Paris Chong, Tommy’s son), to see America. This is a vanity project to the point that Chong also […]
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
The ninth Conjuring movie and the end of the series — after The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It — takes another real-life event, the haunting of the Smurl family of West Pittston, PA, and brings it into the universe of these films. The Smurls believed that a demon was bothering their home, causing loud […]
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