2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12 Option 6: Psycho Cop Returns (1992)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. After a day of cop related slashers, it’s kind of nice to know that I’m finally winding down with the final film — 1992’s Adam Rifkin-directed Psycho Cop Returns. Yes, the same Adam Rifkin that wrote and directed The Dark Backward, as well as […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12 Option 5: Psycho Cop (1989)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. How have I ended up here, watching Psycho Cop in the middle of the night? I blame the annual Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge. What started with just Maniac Cop ended with all three of those films, then I was like, well, let’s see if there were […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12 Option 4: Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence (1993)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. But what if the Maniac Cop found love? This is the question we must answer. Aren’t we all worthy of adoration? Even those of us who have risen from the grave and killed numerous people in an obsessive quest for bloody revenge? […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12 Option 3: Maniac Cop II (1990)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. Bill Lustig and Larry Cohen return to tell the next adventure of Maniac Cop Matthew Cordell, who somehow survived being skewered with a pole and a dunk in the rivers of New York City last time. Now, he’s got a junked out […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12 Option 2: Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. While he may be most famous for Cannibal Holocaust, a movie so controversial that he lost his license to make films and was arrested for the suspected murder of the film’s cast, Ruggero Deodato is no one-trick pony. After growing up nearby Rome’s […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12: Maniac Cop (1988)
DAY 12. THE FRACAS AND THE FUZZ: Something revolving around cops and criminals. Beyond being the CEO of Blue Underground, Bill Lustig will get a forever pass just for making the films Maniac and the three movies in this series. I mean, Bruce Campbell, Tom Atkins and Robert Z’Dar in the same movie? And it’s written […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11 Option 2: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before. Herman Cohen started his climb up the show business ladder from the lowest rung, working as a gofer and usher at Detroit’s Dexter Theater at the tender age of 12. By 18, he’d be the manager. His career would take him from being […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11: A Bucket of Blood (1959)
DAY 11. THE OLD WAY. Watch a classic from 1959 or before. A Bucket of Blood aspires to art as much as it does junk. Written by Charles B. Griffith, whose name you can associate with films as disparate as Smokey Bites the Dust, Barbarella and Death Race 2000, it’s a tale of trying to figure out how to […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 10: An American Werewolf In London (1981)
DAY 10: ANALOGUE MANIPULATORS: Practical effects are the truth. No CGI will be tolerated. There must have been something in the waters of the Los Angeles River in 1981, as The Howling, Wolfen, Full Moon High and this film all came out in those same twelve months. While all three are interesting films for different reasons, An American Werewolf […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 9: The Last Starfighter (1984)
DAY 9. DIGITAL S(T)IMULATIONS: A pre-2000 movie using computer generated “special” effects. As much as we decry practical effects over CGI — in the same way we demand physical media over streaming — there are times when it doesn’t have to be all that bad. I decided that instead of finding a poor example of […]
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