2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 27: The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Day 27 Special Presentations: Made for TV movies from the ‘70s, classic era of the bronze screen The writing is so fast n’ furious at B&S Movies for “Slasher Month” and the “Scarecrow Challenge” that Sam and I had a communication snafu and we both ended up writing reviews for this fantastic TV movie. He […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Someone’s Watching Me! (1978)
DAY 27. SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS: Made for TV movies from the ’70s, classic era of the bronze screen. John Carpenter was hired by Warner Bros in 1976 to write a script based on the true story of a woman who had been spied on inside her Chicago apartment. The script, High Rise, ended up become a TV […]
Psychotronic Challenge 2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 26: Rituals (1977)
DAY 26. THERE’S SOMETHIN’ IN THEM THAR HILLS: Twangy cringers from the backwoods and by-waters. After seeing Joe Bob Briggs “How Rednecks Saved Hollywood,” the entire B&S About Movies team mobilize and celebrated these films, from a Letterboxd list to making our own picks for top 70’s good ol’ boys movies. But to be honest, we […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 25: Open House (1987)
DAY 25 Vanishing Cities: One with gentrification or real estate development as the setting, also known as a Slasher Month two-kills-with-one-swipe-of-the-blade-studded-plunger entry You’re David Mickey Evans: A budding screenwriter that wants to break into the business with two, deeply personal screenplays—Radio Flyer (1990) and The Sandlot (1993)—that enrapture the innocence of your childhood and lifelong […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: Candyman (1992)
DAY 25. VANISHING CITIES: One with gentrification or real estate development as the setting. I was just discussing slasher movies and their lack of blackness with one of my friends last week and we struggled to come up with many movies where there was a black killer. Sure, there’s Snoop Dogg’s turn in Bones, which is […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Pink Plastic Flamingos (2017) and Project Skyborn (2014)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things This 24th day of Scarecrow Video of Seattle’s Psychotronic October Scarecrow Challenge of 31 movies in 31 days is tailor made for the binge-watchable sci-fi films at DUST (make your own anthology film!). Their portal features science fiction shorts from emerging filmmakers obsessed […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: Ugetsu (1953) and Kwaidan (1964)
Day 24 Short Attention Span Theatre: Watch some shorts or anthology things (two-fers allowed) My Dr. Jekyll promised that my celluloid Mr. Hyde would not spree a master thesis portmanteau for this Scarecrow Challenge with an embarrassing display of my obsessions for the British anthology oeuvre of Milton Subtosky and Freddie Francis. And my nostalgia […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 24: From A Whisper To a Scream (1987)
DAY 24: Short Attention Span Theater: Watch some shorts or anthology things. Jeff Burr and fellow director Kevin Meyer dropped out of USC to finish their American civil war drama Divided We Fall. Bur would follow that up with this film, which somehow got Vincent Price on board. So how’d that happen? Burr would tell […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: Nightmare Beach (1989)
DAY 23. A DAY AT THE BEACH: Be sure to bring your trunks and your tanning butter. You can say that Umberto Lenzi’s films are trashy, sleazy paens to mayhem and gore. I won’t disagree with you. There’s Cannibal Ferox, a movie that tries to take that genre further and deeper than even I thought it […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 22: La Noche de Walpurgis (1971)
DAY 22. SEASON OF THE WHICH?: A film set around a holiday. No Halloween though, it’s a challenge! La Noche de Walpurgis (released in the United States as The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman and in the UK as both Shadow of the Werewolf and Werewolf Shadow) was the fifth time that Paul Naschy played the […]
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