2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 8: Roller Blade (1985)
DAY 8. AFTER THE DISASTER: Will we rebuild, adapt or move on? If there’s one thing this site has been about as of late, it’s been post-apocalyptic films. Just take a look at this Letterboxd list that keeps track of all of them — if a movie has been made about the end of the […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7 Option 2: Daikaiju Mono (2016)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? We already did War of the Gargantuas today, but you can never get enough giant monster movies, much less one that is endlessly self-referential! Japan is in a mess to say the least. The weather is all screwed up, volcanoes have stopped erupting, there […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: War of the Gargantuas (1966)
DAY 7. DAIKAIJU: The bigger the better. Who needs a city anyway? Today’s theme is close to my heart. As a young kid in the 1970’s, WFMJ-TV 21 in Youngstown, Ohio played monster movies every night at 1 AM (or later, if Tom Snyder was on). They only had so many Godzilla films before they’d […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: Necropolis (1987)
DAY 666. THE DEVIL’S WORKSHOP: A mass, ritual or summoning scene celebrating the Dark Prince. Holy shit, this movie. The poster art for Necropolis has called out to me many times and I’ve just never found the time. Now, I’m sad that I didn’t get to this sooner. This movie can’t be from our Earth. […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 5: Dawn of the Mummy (1981)
DAY 5. MUMMY’S DAY: An ancient woman wrapped in linen has resurfaced with new purpose. There are plenty of mummy films to choose from, but ever since I wrote this article on section 3 video nasties, I’ve been wanting to watch this. Dawn of the Mummy was directed by Farouk “Frank” Agrama, who was also […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 4: The Initiation
DAY 4. BLACK FRIDAY: A rough day at the shopping maul. Today could have been any number of movies. Being from Pittsburgh, it’d be too easy to select Dawn of the Dead, seeing as how it was filmed miles from my house. Of course, I’m only discussing 1978 version, as the 2004 one has been stricken […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Deadball (2011)
DAY 3. SPORTS AND FITNESS: All pain, no gain. A workout watch out! For this year’s challenge, I’ve wanted to avoid the expected and find movies that nobody is really talking about. Plus, each movie could never have been posted before to our site. That means that movies like Death Spa and Killer Workout were verboten. The Japanese […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 2: A Talking Cat!?! (2013)
DAY 2. SOMEBODY’S GOTTA DO IT: Something involving a less than desirable job must be done. You gotta give it to David DeCoteau. Who else could have directed Sorority Babes In the Slimeball-Bowl-A-Rama, the surprisingly homoerotic Bigfoot vs. D.B. Cooper and this child-friendly film? How does this tie into the theme? Well, Duffy the cat, improbably voice by […]
2019 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 1: Guinea Pig 6: Mermaid In a Manhole
DAY 1. SLIP INTO SOMETHING CHALLENGING: Ease into 2019’s list by watching something with a lot of slime, body goop or questionable muck in it. Wiggle your toes in the gooey glory. Sure, I could start off easy. But I’ve already watched Street Trash, The Stuff and Society, the two movies that most make me think of slime […]
It’s time for the Scarecrow Challenge!
Last year, we made a trip to Scarecrow Video in Seattle, Washington. There are over 125,000 movies or more — who can keep track — in the store. You can check out the video of it right here — I used some giallo music so you wouldn’t have to hear me swear and evoke the […]
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