The Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge for 2022 is done!
Scarecrow Video isn’t just a video store. It’s a landmark for all who love about movies. Each year, they do a month-long challenge to get people to stretch out and watch some movies they’ve never seen before. You can also check out the Letterboxd list for 2021 as well as my lists for 2018, 2019 […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 31: The Proposal (2009)
31. RETIREMENT PARTY: Watch any movie with a character named Kevin in it. Bonus points if it has a badass movie dog. I mean, this is not a Halloween movie but the Scarecrow Challenge has asked for a movie with a Kevin in it and a dog and I didn’t want to watch Balto and to be […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: The Jerky Boys (1995)
30. DEVILS NIGHT: Watch one with mischief, mayhem or pranks in it but please keep the fires to a minimum. At some amazing point in the 90s, Disney released a movie about two men who made prank calls for a living. Yes, what a time to be alive. The Jerky Boys mean more to me than […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Linnea Quigley’s Horror Workout (1990)
29. EXERCISE OR EXORCISE?: You’ll work it out… In case you ever wonder what life is for and why you’re here and get depressed or anxious, worry not. You live in the reality that produced Linnea Quigley and whatever made this all should be thanked. I’m not really religious but if I were to ever start […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Hidden (1987)
Day 28. SPACE ODDITIES: Aliens that imitate humans or take over a human body. Jack Sholder made two unappreciated horror films, Alone In the Dark and A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge before this and it ended up becoming his move from that genre into action. I remember renting this and had that feeling afterward that I […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Mom, Can I Keep Her? (1998)
27. THE NATURAL ENTERTAINER: Watch one with a pro-wrestler turned actor. Put some raw fun in your movie mania. Terry Funk is the wrestler that every other wrestler wants to be. When I was a kid and saw him battling Hulk Hogan in his short WWF stint, trying to punch ring announcers, running out with a […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: Devour (2005)
26. GAMESHOWS: Roll the bones, try your luck, gamble with your life! ARGs are the new RPGs, as a game called The Pathway causes the deaths of Jake Gray’s (Jensen Ackles) friends Conrad (Teach Grant) and Dakota (Dominique Swain). The game itself is operated by Aiden Kater (Martin Cummins) and his Satanic followers who are tricking […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: The Rules of Attraction (2002)
25. CRAIG’S TWIST: When that iffy roommate situation goes sour in a dangerous way. Written and directed by Roger Avary and based on Bret Easton Ellis’ book, this movie makes me not regret at all that I went to art school instead of college and that I was not forced to suffer through roommates. Although […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: Single White Female (1992)
EDITOR’S NOTE: I like to do a new movie I’ve never written about for every Scarecrow Challenge, but I wanted to share this film — today’s challenge is CRAIG’S TWIST: When that iffy roommate situation goes sour in a dangerous way. — because my friend Em Fear is presenting a musical version of Single White […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Crimson Peak (2015)
24. HOLEY SHEET!: Ddddid I just ssssee a ghost? Director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro said that this was “a very set-oriented, classical but at the same time modern take on the ghost story. I think people are getting used to horror subjects done as found footage or B-value budgets. I wanted this to feel […]
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