2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 10: Doctor Strain the Body Snatcher (1991)
10. RITUALS: It’s good to have a routine, even if it’s evil. This is a Shot On Video remake/remix/rip-off of Re-Animator that has the worst quality filming, the most drone soundtrack and ends right in the middle of a scene. Some people will say that that sounds like a bad time. These are not the kind […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 10: The Inquisition, aka Inquisición (1977)
DAY 10 — RITUALS: It’s good to have a routine, even if it’s evil. The 1970s were a time of “witchhunting,” with such film as Michael Reeves’s The Conqueror Worm (1968), Michael Armstrong’s Mark of the Devil (1970), Ken Russell’s The Devils (1971), and Otakar Vavra’s Witchhammer (1970). So Paul Naschy answered call — to […]
Slasher Month, er, ah . . . 2021 Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge Day 9: Nigel the Psychopath (1994)
DAY 9: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: One with a misunderstood freak/mutant/abomination, etc., (or in this case: a fatherless child with farm implements). Oy, this movie . . . this friggin’ movie! Just like a Wim Vink joint, such as Half Past Midnight, a Jim Larsen joint takes its punches for being repetitive and plotless, with […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 9: Ogroff (1983)
9. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL: One with a misunderstood freak/mutant/abomination etc. Written, directed by and starring Norbert Moutier (as N. G. Mount), a man who loved horror, Ogroff somehow has Jess Franco-star Howard Vernon show up in it. That’s some feat, as this is as grimy and low end as a shot on video French slasher gets. […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 8: Bewitched (1981)
8. CRAFT NIGHT: Cast your eyes upon the screen, whence a witch’s spell is surely seen. Detective Wong King Sun is investigating the horrific and violent death of a little girl at the hands of her father, who claims that he was under the influence of a wizard. This takes the detective all the way […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: WNUF Halloween Special (2013)
7. IT CAME FROM THE SCREEN: One where a TV is a major part to the story. I grew up directly between Youngstown, OH and Pittsburgh, PA, which meant that growing up, I got to see UHF channels from Cleveland, Wheeling, Stuebenville and everywhere in between. There are still local jingles that I know by […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: The Fishmen and Their Queen (1995)
6. IT CAME FROM THE SEA: Some kind of threat from below the brine. Sergio Martino can do no wrong. Seriously, even when he’s combining footage from Island of the Fishmen AKA Screamers and 2019: After the Fall of New York into one TV movie, I can’t be anything but entertained. Two teenagers are stuck in the […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 5: Underworld (1985)
5. REEKING HAVOC: Sewer dwellers making a mess of things up on the surface. The synthpop band Freur did the music for this, but they ended up getting better known when they took the name of this movie as their own: Underworld. They’re not the only famous people who are part of this movie — also […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 4: She Kills (2016)
4. WHEN THE TABLES TURN: Victim becomes stalker, hunter becomes the hunted etc. Sadie’s husband has been murdered and she’s been assaulted by a gang called The Touchers on the day of her wedding. That attack has unleashed a horrific power deep within her and an insatiable desire to get revenge with the newfound power […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Hee-Man: Master of None (1985)
3. HIGH SPIRITS: Tickle your funny bones with a side splitter, a gut buster, a real scream. Go on, laugh your head off! Getting to theaters — at least in the Phillipines — two years before the Cannon Masters of the Universe, Hee-Man: Master of None is based more on the Filmation cartoon series than any other […]
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