Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Possibly In Michigan (1983)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
How to Beat the High Cost of Living (1980)
Set against the backdrop of late-70s economic turbulence, the film follows three lifelong friends in Eugene, Oregon—Jane (Susan Saint James), Elaine (Jane Curtin) and Louise (Jessica Lange)—who are pushed to the absolute financial brink by inflation, messy divorces and collapsing businesses. When ordinary life becomes completely untenable, they hatch an audacious scheme: drill a hole […]
Murder, She Wrote S4 E16: Murder Through the Looking Glass (1988)
While in Connecticut for a convention, Jessica hears the dying confession of a hitman and uncovers a mysterious safe house housing an important foreign dignitary. Season 4, Episode 16: Murder Through the Looking Glass (February 21, 1988) Forget cozy Cabot Cove tea parties; this week Jessica is dealing with rogue federal agents, South American rebel […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Limbo (1999)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
Sybil Danning’s Adventure Video: The Brave Bunch (1970)
For some reason, the Sybil Danning Adventure Video line is rich with Greek war movies. I guess they were inexpensive and would never sell unless they put Sybil on the box. Well, guess the fact that I am writing about this nearly fifty years later means it was a good idea. Set during the turbulent […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: The Demon’s Rook (2013)
Week 10 (Aug 23 – 29) – Mill Creek’s Mausoleum of Mumblegore: The indie wing of low-budget horror or the horror wing of low-budget indie. A young boy named Roscoe (who grows up to be director and writer James Sizemore) encounters a mysterious portal leading to an underworld realm, where he is taken in and mentored in black […]
Cat In the Cage (1978)
California wine heir Bruce Khan (Behrouz Vossoughi, the Marlon Brando of Iran) returns home from a mental ward to a wealthy family estate under siege by greed and suspicion. He immediately clashes with his new, much younger stepmother Susan (Sybil Danning)—his mother’s former nurse—whom Bruce suspects of having a hand in his mother’s death. Susan […]
ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY REVIEW: Forbidden Planet (1956)
Directed by Fred M. Wilcox from a script by Cyril Hume that was based on an original film story by Allen Adler and Irving Block, Forbidden Planet is a movie that is forever in the zeitgeist of what 1950s American science fiction looked like. It’s also the first movie to show hyperspeed travel, to feature a […]
TROMA BLU-RAY RELEASE: Sweet Meats (2025)
Bobby Sweet is a country music legend and the world-renowned face of the Sweet Meats restaurant chain, which he established with his wife back in 1978. The film opens with a framing interview in which Bobby is interviewed by Kerry Swallows (Kaitlin Stephens Guenther), teasing the dark secret behind the restaurant’s meteoric success. The narrative […]
SYNAPSE BLU-RAY RELEASE: Tag: The Assassination Game (1982)
Directed and written by Nick Castle — and also known as Kiss Me, Kill Me, and Everybody Gets It in the End — this movie starts by taking a page out of The 10th Victim, as a group of college kids plays secret agent with dart guns in a LARP game where two people are assigned to […]
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