2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 21. Swamp Thing (1982)
DAY 21: POWER PLANTS. One where the vegetation fights back. Swamp Thing can trace his roots — yes, it’s a he — back to “It,” Theodore Sturgeon’s short story that ran in the pulp magazine Unknown in 1940. The story is all about a man — Roger Kirk — who dies and is reborn in a swamp. This […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 20: Ice Cream Man (1995)
Day 20 Sunday Dinner: From eating scenes to full on foodie fodder Update, May 2023: The long-gestating sequel headed by actor Clint Howard is back on! Information on the new film to follow. Now, here’s what we had to kibitz back in October 2019 during the annual, 30-Day Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge. Today, Tommy Wiseau […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 20: Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same (2011)
Day 20 Sunday Dinner: From eating scenes to full on foodie fodder Mike Nichols, who dominated early ‘70s cinema with the box office hits The Graduate (1967) and Catch-22 (1970), and received multiple award nods for Silkwood (1983) and Working Girl (1988), decided to make a comedy, a sci-fi comedy—a 2001: A Not-So-Funny Space Comedy […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 20: Ed and his Dead Mother (1993)
Day 20 Sunday Dinner: From eating scenes to full on foodie fodder Author’s Note: You’ll be able to watch the full films of Ed and his Death Mother’s cool ‘n quirky cousins: Bartleby, Ed and Rubin, Trees Lounge, and Twister for free, and Ghost World for a fee. (Links to follow in the article.) And […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 20: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
DAY 20. SUNDAY DINNER: From exceptional eating scenes to full on foodie fodder. Come hungry! After a viewing of this movie at a very young age, I decided that I’d never have chaffing dishes in my house. That may never come true just because I doubt I’ll ever have the money to spend on such […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 19: Bloodsucking Freaks (1976)
DAY 19. VIDEO STORE DAY: This is the big one. Watch something physically rented or bought from a video store. If you live in a place that is unfortunate enough not to have one of thee archival treasures then watch a movie with a video store scene in it at least. #vivaphysicalmedia I grew up […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge: Day 18: A Matter of Degrees (1990)
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Editor’s Desk: Upon the news of his medical hardships, we’ve seen an uptick in our reviews of Tom Sizemore films, which is no way for anyone to discover an actor’s films. Regrettably, Tom—whose credits included the major studio films Natural Born Killers, True […]
2019 Psychotronic Scarecrow Challenge: Day 18: Outside Ozona (1998)
Day 18 Only on VHS: Watch something on the true psychotronic format Quentin Tarantino goes off into the dusty, deserted Midwest in this sharply written, existential tale that questions how we deal with regret and loneliness, fate and death at the whims of respected Chicago psychiatrist Alan Defaux, aka The Skokie Ripper (David Paymer; 1981’s […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: Beyond the Gates (2016)
DAY 18. ONLY ON VHS Day: Watch something on true psychotronic format. If you don’t have access to a VCR then watch a movie with a VCR/VHS theme in it. Thanks to the Found Footage Festival, so many people have gotten the chance to see a lost part of the VHS era — board games that […]
2019 Psychotronic Scarecrow Challenge: Day 17: In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I Murders (1988)
Day 17 Evil in Broad Daylight: Scary stories aren’t just for the night time Tracy Keenan Wynn is the gold standard in screenwriting and teleplays. Look at that resume: The Glass House (1972; TV’s Alan Alda, Vic Morrow of Message from Space and Clu Gulager of Hunter’s Blood), the platinum standard of football—and prison movies—The […]
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