The Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge for 2023 is done!
Scarecrow Video isn’t just a video store. It’s a landmark for all we 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 as well as our lists for 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 31: Death Race 4: Beyond Anarchy (2018)
31. “THE FINAL CHAPTER”: Last in a series… Get it? Death Race: Beyond Anarchy is the most 2000s movie I have ever seen and I am astounded that it was made in 2018. It has people with rivet faces, distressed fonts everywhere, costumes that feel like they came from the back room of a Hot […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Return to Sleepaway Camp (2008)
30. CAMPOTRONIC: A summer camp that puts the zing in blazing inferno, the spice in hospice, the fest in infestation, the fun in funeral. Go and have yourself a time. Ignore Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers and Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland, as this is a direct sequel to the first movie. Camp Manabe is where […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Body Parts (1991)
29. PHANTOM LIMB: Severed or not is optional but this extension of will has to have a different energy pushing it. Bill Chrushank (Jeff Fahey) is a psychologist working with convicted killers who loses his arm while driving to work. Dr. Agatha Webb (Lindsay Duncan) gets his wife (Kim Delaney) to sign off on an […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: Cyborg 2 (1993)
28. THE BIG TAKEOVER: An A.I.’er that goes haywire. Cyborg 2 is everything I wanted Cyborg to live up to. Directed by Michael Schroeder, who wrote it with Mark Geldman and Ron Yanover, this is way better than I could even imagine. It’s like it was made for me: a movie with Casella “Cash” Reese (Angelina Jolie) […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Dracula 3D (2012)
27. MONSTERS… ALL?: Dracula, Frankenstein and Wolfman are (universal)ly adored. It’s time we start seeing other “people.” There’s really no reason for this movie to exist. Many people have tried and almost as many have failed to bring their vision of Dracula to the screen. For every Tod Browning and Karl Freund, for each Francis Ford […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: The Long Hair of Death (1964)
26. ANY WITCH WAY YOU CAN: Cast your eyes upon a spellbinder. Adele Karnstein (Halina Zalewska, An Angel for Satan) is accused of witchcraft and burned, but really it’s because she wouldn’t sleep with Count Humboldt (Giuliano Raffaelli). When her daughter Helen (Barbara Steele) confronts him, she even offers her body to him to save her […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Revenge of the Terror of the Attack of the Evil, Mutant, Alien, Flesh Eating, Hellbound, Zombified Living Dead Part 2 (1991)
25. FROM THE NIGHT OF: Any movie with “NIGHT OF” or “FROM THE” in its title. James Riffel made this when he was working at a public access station. It combines several movies that he made at New York University, super 8 home movies and some video footage. Never released, it shows up on YouTube. […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: The Mist (2007)
24. STOP AND CHOP: The supermarket just became a shop of horrors! Cleanup on aisle 24. It’s been a depressing last few weeks, so I figured I’d watch a movie and why did I watch this? Seriously, has there ever been a movie that has a bigger downer? Spoilers all over this one, because wow, […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: The Night (2020)
23. VACANCY: Road weary are we? Pull over for one that’s set at a hotel or a motel. Goodnight? A few years ago, I worked at the kind of ad agency that was too cheap to pay for creative directors to go on shoots. Well, when I got the chance to get a script developed […]
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