2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 22: The Road Warrior (1981)
22. WRECK TANGLE: Rubberneck a car crash scene. Everything Mad Max did right, The Road Warrior does better. Italy and many other countries remade this over and over. It changed American pro wrestling thanks to the look of the Road Warriors tag team,. Hawk and Animal. And it made the end of the world seem awesome. “Mad Max” […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 21: The Boys from Brazil (1978)
21. TWINNERS CIRCLE: Scientists rejoice! Human cloning has been achieved. Barry Kohler (Steve Guttenberg) died so that Ezra Lieberman (Laurence Olivier) could learn that Dr. Josef Mengele (Gregory Peck) lives and plans on killing 94 civil servants near retirement. Despite being exhausted by the world, Ezra forms a team with his sister Esther (Lilli Palmer), […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 20: The Toxic Avenger (2023)
20. DANCE DANCE DEVOLUTION: Today’s viewing soiree must be some kind of mutant, freak, or genetic mishappening. The Toxic Avenger had some trouble securing a distributor for wide release after its premiere, with one unnamed producer deeming the film “unreleasable” because of how violent it was. So it sat for nearly two years. What emerged […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 19: Cub (2014)
19. THE ABANDONED PLACE: This spooky classic trope that must inhabit tonight’s viewing. Sam (Maurice Luijten) is abused by his fellow Cub Scouts, like pack leader Peter (Stef Aerts). This disruption causes the scouts to be lost in the mountains, just as two of the older scouts start telling ghost stories. One of them, about […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 18: Trick or Treat With Reed Richmond (2025)
18. VIDEO STORE DAY: This is the big one. Watch something physically rented or bought from an actual video store. If you live in a place that is unfortunate enough not to have one of these archival treasures, then watch a movie with a video store scene in it at least. #vivaphysicalmedia Perhaps you know […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 17: The Conjuring (2013)
17. THE WATCHENING: Today’s film title should end with an -ing. Oh man, the whitewashing of the Warrens starts here, but at least James Wan made one great art-directed movie, a film that has a scary room filled with occult objects like Annabelle, who couldn’t stay in just one movie. Ed and Lorraine (Patrick Wilson […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 16: Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
16. SEQUELAR SUBTITULAR: You know how sequels sometimes have clever subtitles? Like House II: The Second Story… Someone tell medical student Grace Rhodes (Naomi Watts) that you should never go home again. Yet she has to take care of her agoraphobic mother, June (Karen Black), who keeps dreaming of being hurt by children. She gets […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 15: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
15. GOES WITHOUT SAYING: Feast your eyes on something with little to no dialogue at all. Directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer, this is the perfect expression of German Expressionism. Janowitz and Mayer, both pacifists who despised authority after their military experiences during World War I, created something amazing […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 14: Halloween TV version (1981)
14. “SHUT THE FACE UP”: Watch a TV edit of an R-rated movie, you fairy godmother. While the Halloween TV cut is an edited version of the 1978 movie with limited gore, not that Halloween had much, and re-dubbed swear words. That left around 12 minutes to extend the film, and luckily, John Carpenter was on the […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 13: Prey (2022)
13. HOLLYWOODLAND BACK: Made by an indigenous filmmaker or has featured indigenous cast members. How is this movie, directed by Dan Trachtenberg and written by Patrick Aison, the best Predator in, well, maybe ever? The Comanche Naru (Amber Midthunder, a citizen of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribe) dreams of being a warrior like her […]
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