THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 22: The Agency (1980)
22. A Horror Film That Can Be Found on a 50-Movie DVD Collection I’ve worked in advertising for thirty years. So this is more of a horror movie for me than for nearly anyone else. Based on The Agency by Paul Gottlieb, directed by George Kaczender and written by Noel Hynd, this film follows a burned-out […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 21: Parents (1989)
21. A Horror Film About Evil Parents Directed by Bob Balaban (yes, the guy from Christopher Guest comedies) and written by Christopher Hawthorne. Parents finds the Laemle family — Nick (Randy Quaid), Lily (Mary Beth Hurt) and Michael (Bryan Madorsky) moving into the California suburbs. Between seeing his parents making love and watching his father do […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 20: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
20. A Horror Film Shot by Jack Cardiff The fishermen of a village have found the bodies of a man and woman in their nets, as archaeologist Geoffrey Fielding (Harold Warrender) looks to the camera to tell us their story. Pandora Reynolds (Ava Gardner) is the kind of femme fatale that can watch a man […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 19: Haxan (1922)
19. A Horror Film That Takes Place on a Non-American Holiday Director and writer Benjamin Christensen did a study of Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century German guide for inquisitors also known as Hammer of Witches. He believed that the burning of witches was more about mental health and mass hysteria than witchcraft. While initially this ran into […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 18: Shark Exorcist (2014)
18. A Supernatural Shark Movie When your movie starts with a nun sacrificing someone and asking for Satan to send her an avenger, you know I’m going to like it. And when the devil sends a shark, you know I’ll love it. And the nun is named Linda Blair? Man, Donald Farmer, you want me […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 17: The Amy Fisher Story (1993)
17. A 90s Horror Film That Was Made for Television Yes, a horror story. Within a few days, NBC’s Amy Fisher: My Story, CBS’s Casualties of Love and ABC’s The Amy Fisher Story all hit the small screen, and people did not go unmoved. This time, we have Drew Barrymore playing Amy, and yeah, I’ll make a statement: […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 16: Latitude Zero (1969)
16. A Tokusatsu Horror Film Latitude Zero is a futuristic utopia that lies hidden fifteen miles below sea level at the intersection of the Equator and the International Date Line. There, people from all over the world — many of whom were reported missing at sea and have now aged — have lived since the […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 15: Pontypool (2008)
15. A Horror Film in Which Language is the Weapon Why did it take so long for me to watch this? A zombie — kinda — movie set inside one room, radio talk show host Grant Mazzy’s (Stephen McHattie) studio — Pontypool is filled with imagination and utter strangeness, as a virus uses language against people […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 14: Visitors from the Arkana Galaxy (1981)
14. A Croatian Horror Film Here’s how Deaf Crocodile sold this: “Imagine if Troma Films had been hired to make a Sid & Marty Krofft Saturday morning kids’ show, and if you have some idea of the unspeakable strangeness of Visitors from the Arcana Galaxy, a truly gonzo Croatian sci-fi/fantasy about a struggling writer, Robert […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 13: Curse of the Swamp Creature (1968)
13. A Horror Film That Features a Swamp Creature Larry Buchanan made a number of low-budget 16mm color remakes of American International Pictures movies for television. Despite the limited budget, he was able to create some truly wild films, including this one, which was inspired by Voodoo Woman. Dr. Simond Trent (Jeff Alexander) has set […]
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