Interview with Skip Shea, director of Seeds (and more)
We had the amazing opportunity to see Seeds during the Salem Horror Fest and also gained the ability to connect with its creator, Skip Shea. Beyond making some truly interesting and intense movies, he’s had quite the life. As an outspoken survivor of clergy sexual abuse, he wrote, produced and performed a one-man theatrical memoir called […]
2021 Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge Wrap-Up
I’m really emotional that another Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge is over. In another rough year, this was something I really looked forward to and even got to fly across the country to visit Scarecrow right in the middle of all of this. Here’s an overview of what we watched. You can also check out the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 31: Tougher than Leather (1988)
31. THAT’S A RAP: Watch one with a rapper-turned-actor in it, even if Samuel L. Jackson does not approve. The Washington Post said that this movie was vile, vicious, despicable, stupid, sexist, racist and horrendously made.” Maybe they hadn’t watched the blaxploitation movies of a decade and a half before, because instead of the guys […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: The Loved Ones (2009)
30. MARTINI SHOT: Blow off some Challenge steam with a hardy party scene. This movie is one big party but it is not that you’d want to be at. Brent is dealing with the death of his father — that he inadvertently caused when he swerved to miss a bloody man in the road — […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Sisters (1972)
29. DOUBLE TROUBLE: There’s gotta be some twins in there somewhere. Brian De Palma was inspired to make Sisters after reading an article in Life magazine about how Soviet conjoined twins Masha and Dasha Krivoshlyapova were separated. A photo at the end of the article — along with a mention that the girls were developing […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Super Ninja (1984)
28. THESE FISTS BREAK BRICKS: In celebration of the excellent new book, watch a martial arts movie. John has two jobs: he’s a maverick NYPD cop. And, well, he’s also a ninja. A super ninja. Alexander Rei Lo is the guy for this role because a look across his IMDB resume tells us that he […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)
27. ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: Robot arms, wooden legs or even a transplanted thing… whatever grabs you. Never go home again and never go to an abandoned tropical island with a coke-using film crew and never swim in the ocean and never go to camp. This camp has a reason, I guess, as the kids are addicted […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: Fangs (1974)
26. DAY OF THE SERPENT: There better be a motherf*ing snake in this motherf*ing movie. Les Tremayne, who was one of the most popular and well-known voices of the Golden Age of Radio, working on shows like The Jackie Gleason/Les Tremayne Show, Ford Theatre, Inner Sanctum, The Whistler and more. He even had a breakfast show […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: Dark Mansions (1986)
25. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE*: Sleep deprived and still alive… for now. (*Does not have to be set in Seattle) Hey all — just got back from Seattle, then a week quarantine from Becca who got COVID-19, which is pretty much like me being normal because all I did was sit in my basement and write […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: General Massacre (1973)
DAY 25 — SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE*: Sleep deprived and still alive . . . for now. (*Does not have to be set in Seattle . . . so Belgium, works!) Just so you know what you’re getting into with this very odd, badly acted and poorly scripted tale about a deranged (our “sleep deprived” lad) […]
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