2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 11: A Gnome Named Gnorm (1990)
11. BREAKING THE MOLD: More than make up, this one is when practical effects masters employ their crafting skills directly to making the whole damn movie. Hey, Stan Winston directed Pumpkinhead and, well, Michael Jackson’s Ghosts, so a .500 batting average gets you into the hall of fame. Pen Densham and John Watson wrote Robin Hood: Prince […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 10: Frankenhooker (1990)
10. NEW YORK NEW YORK: A slice and dice set in the city so nice they named it New York. Has there ever been a better video box? Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is a bioelectrical scientist who works at a power plant. His life in New Jersey was going so well until his fiancee Elizabeth’s […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 9: Green Room (2015)
9. BUT AFTER THE GIG: Just because the party has ended, that doesn’t mean the activities have. The Ain’t Rights — bassist Pat (Anton Yelchin), guitarist Sam (Alia Shawkat), drummer Reece Joe Cole) and singer Tiger (Callum Turner) — are ready to get off tour after a show for promoter Tad (David W. Thompson) leaves with […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 8: Swimfan (2002)
8. POOL PARTY: Is there a swimming pool in your plot? Take a dip, mind the drip. Look, I never went on a date in high school and missed the prom, so who am I to give advice to the kids, but as I watched this movie, people still under the age of twenty are […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 7: 666: The Child (2006)
7. LITTLE DEVILS, BIG SHRIEKS: How much terror can a child really wreak? Look, sometimes I end up watching devil child movies directed by the same guy who made Wild Things 2. He uses the name Jake Johnson in the credits, but that’s Jack Perez, who was also Ace Hannah when he directed Mega Shark vs. Giant […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 6: A Dog Called…Vengeance (1977)
6. MAN’S BEST FRIEND?: This canine is no pal of mine. Directed by Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, who wrote it with Juan Antonio Porto and Alberto Vázquez Figueroa, this is the story of political prisoner and mathematician Aristides Ungria (Jason Miller, as good here as he was in The Exorcist). He’s been in jail for years when he […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 5: From Beyond (1986)
5. BROKEN BONES: Snap, crackle, “stop… is it sticking out?” Dr. Edward Pretorius (Ted Sorel) has created the Resonator, which allows him to see beyond reality. You know, like the title. When Dr. Crawford Tillinghast (Jeffrey Combs) activates it, he sees all sorts of monsters floating around him, including one that bites him. Pretorious, instead […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 4: The Brood (1979)
4. FAMILY MATTERS: It takes a family to raise this village. Dr. Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) has figured out how to get his patients to get rid of mental illness through changing their bodies by psychoplasmics. It sounds ridiculous but it works and its helping Nola Carveth (Samantha Eggar), a woman in a battle with […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 3: Rainbow (2022)
3. BLURRING THE LINES: Magical realism is the key for today’s witnessing. Dora (Dora Postigo) has been raised by her father Diego (Hovik Keuchkerian) but has always heard that she looks nothing like him and everything like her mother Piral. Yet she has no memories and asks her father for his. She decides to seek […]
2024 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 2: The Alligator People (1959)
2. DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: Mad scientists never seem to follow the rules… Jane Marvin used to be Joyce Webster and they’re both played by Beverly Garland. She has amnesia because of something that happened in her past, something that scientists plan on getting to the bottom of. She used to be married to Paul Webster […]
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