2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 12: Codename: Wild Geese (1984)
12. GUERILLAS IN THE MIDST: One involving soldiers or set during a war. Code Name: Wild Geese is not the sequel to The Wild Geese but don’t let that stop you from watching it and making the filmmaker’s money. This is directed by an absolute master of the low budget war movie, Antonio Margheriti, written […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11: DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)
11. ⬆⬆⬇⬇⬅➡⬅➡🅱🅰: Select and start a movie based on a video game. Look, I want to say something like, “Dead or Alive series depicts a collection of skilled martial artists in a worldwide competition that’s sponsored by the DOATEC (Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee), a massive corporation with unknown motives,” but really the video […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 10: The Prize of Peril (1983)
10. “I GOT YOU, BABY GIRL”: A post-apocalyptic film with some emotional heft. The Prize Of Peril is a game show that everyone in France is crazy about. The rules are pretty simple. A helicopter takes contestants a mile away from the studio and they’re given four hours to get back. If they do, they […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 9: Imitation of Life (1959)
9. PASSES LIKE MOLASSES: One with a looooong death/dying sequence. My grandmother loved this movie. Whenever she would hear about how many movies I watched, she always said that I should watch more movies like Imitation of Life. My grandmother is a few years gone now and I remember that very early in my life, she […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 8: Midnight Tease (1994)
8. IN YOUR DREAMS: Heavy on the dream sequence, Jack. Samantha (Cassandra Leigh AKA Lisa Boyle) is an exotic dancer at Club Fugazi and her fantasy life is even wilder, as she dreams that she’s at the center of fetish-heavy sex scenes with murder always moments away. But as for her real-life dancing, it’s the […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: The Blackening (2022)
7. “META” MILITIA: Be on the lookout for any one of an enemy squadron of self aware films operating in your area. Report if seen… This film takes the 2018 short film of the same name by the comedy troupe 3Peat and makes an entire horror film around a Juneteenth weekend spent at a cabin […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: Porno (2019)
6. THE TORN TICKET: You guessed it, films/scenes that take place in a movie theater. Back in 1992, Chaz (Jillian Mueller), projectionist and recovering drig addict Heavy Metal Jeff (Robbie Tann) and ushers Abe (Evan Daves), Ricky (Glenn Stott) and Todd (Larry Saperstein) are working in the family-friendly movie theater of Mr. Pike (Bill Phillips). […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 4: Scenic Route (2013)
4. WORKING REMOTELY: One that takes place out in the cut somewhere. Directed by Kevin and Michael Goetz and written by Kyle Killen, Scenic Route — AKA Wrecked — is about Michael (Josh Duhamel) and Carter (Dan Fogler) broken down in the California desert, an event created by Carter so that he can finally hash it all out […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Un orso chiamato Arturo (1992)
3. TWILIGHT YEARS IN THEIR CAREERS: An aging American actor in an overseas production. In the interview with Sergio Martino on the All the Colors of Giallo blu ray from Severin, he mentions that he only lost money on one movie. This is that movie. I watched Un orso chiamato Arturo as it was meant to be […]
2023 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 2: Critters 3 (1991)
2. THEY WERE IN THAT?: One with a then unknown actor who is now very known. Did you see Critters 2: The Main Course? Charlie MacFadden (Don Keith Opper) from that movie is looking for the last of the Critters and meets a family that includes Annie (Aimee Brooks), Clifford (John Calvin) and Johnny (Christian […]
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