2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Rope (1948)
24. 2 CLOSE 4 COMFORT: A main character suffers from claustrophobia. Outside of the expected films like Psycho and Rear Window, Hitchcock has been a blind spot to me, despite my obsession with the Krimi and Giallo films that owe a debt to his work. Let’s change that! Based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play of the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Die Sister, Die (1972/1978)
DAY 24 — 2 CLOSE 4 COMFORT: A main character suffers from claustrophobia (and was Clint Eastwood “too close for comfort” in that editing suite with Jack Ging?). If only there was an olive-skinned Italian beauty adorned in a graveyard-appropriate mini dress and heels escaping a phalanx of zombie arms in an errant set piece […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: The Mummy Theme Park (2000)
23. DEPT. OF INDUSTRY & LABOR: A story based on doing a job. Speaking of jobs, yours ain’t finished yet, 8 days to go! I used to worry that I would run out of berserk Italian movies, especially when the 1990s give way to the 2000s but that shows what I know, because The Mummy Theme […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: Darkest Soul (1994)
DAY 23 — DEPT. OF INDUSTRY & LABOR: A story based on doing a job. Speaking of jobs, your psycho-gig ain’t finished yet, there’s still 8 days to go! How obscure and hard-to-find is this second SOV entry on the joint resume of Doug Ulrich and Al Darago: this is the only image of the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 22: Circle of Fear “Dark Vengeance” (1973)
22. BEASTS OF BURDEN: One where a horse/donkey/mule/ox etc is doing some serious work. This was supposed to be Devil Story but I got so excited after I watched it that I jumped the gun and posted it, thinking that surely I’d find another movie to fit the bill. I spent almost this entire month trying […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 22: Night Creature (1978)
DAY 22 — BEASTS OF BURDEN: One where a horse/donkey/mule/ox, etc. (or a jungle cat?), is doing some serious work. Sam, the head honcho at B&S About Movies, speaks a lot of celluloid truths: one of them is that Donald Pleasence really will take anything for a paycheck. Now, Ross Hagan, we know that he […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: Razorback (1984)
21. BARN HOWLS: There are strange things afoot at the farm. Bonus points if you see a pumpkin patch! Between the cinematography of Dean Semler (The Road Warrior, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) and the lunatic vision of Russell Mulcahy (who was known for his music videos before making movies like this and Highlander; some of the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 20: Nightmare Castle (1965)
20. CASTLEMANIA: Something that takes place in, where else, a castle. A couple of months ago, I was doing my usual weekend of looking at used DVD stores when I noticed an older man staring at the stacks of used movies. He stopped and asked, “Do you mind if I ask you what movies I […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 19: Zora the Vampire (2000)
19. CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKIN’?: When you let an unexpected guest in, you may be in for a long night. You know who you should never let in? Vampires. Count Dracula is sick of Romanian blood, so he leaves for a country that he knows from television: Italy. That’s a lot different than the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 19: The Night God Screamed (1971)
DAY 19 — CAN’T YOU HEAR ME KNOCKIN’?: When you let an unexpected guest in, you may be in for a long night. Editor’s Note: While we’ve included this — controversial — film as part of our Christploitation genre cataloging, we’ll also briefly delve into the Hagsploitation genre, turn you on to a few “hippie […]
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