2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: Blair Witch 2: Book of Shadows (2000)
23. PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY: In Psychotronic Challenge, the land haunts YOU! Hopefully that joke, ahem, landed okay. Folk it. You know, I hate the first Blair Witch Project movie so I was assured that I’d despise this, a movie that utterly bombed at the box office and seemed to make no one happy. But you know, it totally worked. Sequels are […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 22: The Untold (2002)
22. FURGET ABOUT PATTERSON & GIMLIN: Watch a non-American sasquatch movie. Also known as Sasquatch, this Canadian Sasquatch movie was directed and written by Jonas Quastel. It has Lance Henriksen as Harlan Knowles, the President and CEO of Bio-Comp Technologies. Along with Marla Lawson (Andrea Roth), an insurance person because that’s exciting and kids love underwriters, he’s searching […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: House of Traps (1982)
21. TRAPS: To lay or be laid, that is the question. Based on Shi Yukun’s The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants, this Shaw Brothers movie has the Venom Mob and a house of, well, traps. Not a trap house. That’s different. Directed by Chang Cheh, this is the last Venom Mob movie. Lo Meng is […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 20: Nightmare Vacation (2017)
20. TRIPS: Vacations don’t always go how you planned them. Can you get away from the getaway? This movie may use the UK title of Sleepaway Camp, but it’s actually a lost Polonia Brothers movie that was made by John Polonia and Todd Michael Smith, then restored and finished by Mark. He also provides the narration that […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 19: The Green Slime (1968)
19. DRIPS: Blood, sweat, goop, tears, slime, or questionable muck is a must here. Known in Japan as Ganmā Daisan Gō: Uchū Daisakusen or Gamma 3: The Great Space War, this was directed by Kinji Fukasaku (Battles Without Honor or Humanity, Battle Royale, Message from Space) and written by American screenwriters Tom Rowe, Charles Sinclair and Bill Finger, the uncredited […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: Hard Boiled (1992)
18. SO MUCH DEATH: The R.I.P. section has been very active this year so today watch a movie with a high body count. 307 people get killed in this movie. It’s like John Woo looked at the most violent gun culture movies of the U.S. and was like, I can do this so much better. After […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 17: Boogeyman II (1983)
17. THE VIDEO NASTY: Watch one of the 72 banned in the UK. And we thought the PMRC was tough… It’s been one of my goals to check off every single one of all three of the video nasty lists. You can check the progress at Letterboxd and write-ups on sections one, two and three. Ulli […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 16: Mulholland Drive (2001)
16. MAKING THE 3RD WALL: One where they’re filming a movie within the movie you’re watching. Smarter minds and better writers have already written about the work of David Lynch, so let me write a lot about what this movie means to me at 3 AM. This may be the best way to do this. “A love […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 15: Body Double (1984)
15. VIDEO STORE DAY: This is the big one. Watch something physically rented or bought from an actual video store. If you don’t have access to one of these sacred archival treasures then watch a movie with a video store scene in it at least. #vivaphysicalmedia “I do not do animal acts. I do not […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 14: The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
14. THE RUBY ANNI-VHS-ARY: Watch something that came out in 1982. #onlyonVHS! Based on the novel by James Hardiman and directed by Kevin Connor (From Beyond the Grave), this movie starts with a samurai committing murder-suicide when he catches his wife with another man. The house, as you can pick up from the title, is haunted […]
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