The Scarecrow Video Psychotronic Challenge for 2024 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, […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 31: The Toxic Avenger (1984)
31. “I’LL BE BACK”: We hope you had a good time with our little Challenge. Conclude your journey by watching one with a catchphrase you find yourself repeating in the real world. I say some dumb lines from movies all the time, movies that no one remembers, like when I go in a store I […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 30: Exhuma (2024)
30. EXHUMATION POINT: Digging up the past one coffin at a tomb time. Korean shaman Lee Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her assistant Yoon Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun) have been hired by a wealthy Korean American family to determine why their infant son is sick. It turns out to be something called the Grave’s Call, as an […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 29: Johnny Dangerously (1984)
29. RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB: An antagonist is only as good as his implements. Directed by Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) and written by Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris (Kukoff and Harris created Diff’rent Strokes), Harry Colomby and Norman Steinberg, this felt like a movie I watched on cable so many times as a […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: Timer (2009)
28. COUNTDOWN TO OBLIVION: Watch a race-against-timer. Oh, the tension… Before WandaVision and Agatha All Along, Jac Schaeffer directed, wrote and produced Timer, a film about a wrist implant that counts down to the day when the wearer will meet their soulmate. Oona (Emma Caulfield) has a blank Timer, which means that her soulmate is not wearing one. […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 27: Annihilator (1986)
27. MAN & MACHINE: When one interacts with the other, both are forever changed. Originally airing on NBC on April 7, 1986, Annihilator was an unsold pilot for a TV series that would never be made. Robert Armour (Mark Lindsay Chapman, Arcane from Swamp Thing the TV series) is dating Angela (Catherine Mary Stewart), another reporter. But […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 26: Two Males for Alexa (1971)
26. DANZA MACABRA: Boogie down with some soundtrack heavy Giallo. Ronald Marvelling (Curd Jürgens) has married a new wife, a much younger one, by the name of Alexa DuBois (Rosalba Neri) but within weeks, she’s making love in the sand with Pietro (Juan Luis Galiardo) and he’s downing J&B and clutching a pistol. This is […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 25: G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)
25. ICONOCLADS: Features a character that you have dressed up as for Halloween. It’s been 15 years and I am still angry about this movie. Beyond my obsession with film, I am a lifelong G.I. Joe collector. Yes, the first night my later wife stayed at my house, she had to walk through a hallway […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966)
24. SHLOCK & AWE: Can you believe how “good” this is? The Incredibly Strange Film Show aired on Discovery in the 1990s and it was such a part of my early psychotronic obsession. In just two seasons, I learned who Ray Dennis Steckler, Ted V. Mikels and Doris Wishman were and got so much more […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 23: The Legend of Gator Face (1996)
23. FOR PEAT’S SAKE: Log one that takes place in a swamp or a bog. Danny (John White, who would become the direct to video Stifler in the American Pie sequels), Phil (Dan Warry-Smith) and Angel (Charlotte Sullivan) live in a swamp where every kid talks about Gator Face. After a summer of having to […]
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