Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Cabin Boy (1994)
Aug 18-24 indie comix week: When I was a kid, I used to read Mad Magazine and Cracked, so when I got a little older, it didn’t take much convincing to pick up Eightball and Hate. I’m an OG in the “complaining about superheroes” game, and my scars were anointed on the Comics Journal message […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Sister Sensei (1994)
July 14-20 Vanity Project Week: “…it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughter is vanity.” Are these products of passionate and industrious independent filmmakers OR outrageous glimpses into the inner workings of self-obsessed maniacs?? This whole thing started with “The Karate Rap” […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Jacaranda Joe (1994)
June 27: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Free Space! In June 1994, George Romero came to Florida’s Valencia College to film a movie he’d wanted to make for some time—or at least part of it. Working with students at the school, he shot a few minutes of Jacaranda […]
Death Match (1994)
John Larson (Ian Jacklin) has lost a friend to the underground fighting world. Man, the fight clubs from the early direct-to-video 90s continue to make me so happy to watch old films that no one cares about but me. Anyway, Ian Jacklin was a karate champ, and that was enough in 1994 to get him […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: V-Cinema Essentials: Bullets & Betrayal: XX: Beautiful Hunter (1994)
Shion (Makiko Kuno) is the most perfect killer in the Magnificat crime religion. Raised from birth to kill without passion or emotion by Father Kano (Koji Shimizu), she sees a photo of herself taken by a reporter named Ito (Johnny Ôkura). It shocks her into feeling something, as does his begging for his life on […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Sul Filo del Rasoio (1994)
April 16: Filmirage — Give in to the sleaze and write about a Joe D’Amato produced movie. There’s a list here. Also known as Instinct, this has a box that promises an erotic thriller. Seeing as how it starts with a naked woman being killed by a radio in the bathtub, I can see why. In 1994, […]
Tales from the Crypt S6 E11: Surprise Party (1994)
Ray Wells (Adam Storke) is ready for his father Desmond (Rance Howard) to die so he can inherit that land where a house once burned own and killed a bunch of partying teens. Ray barely hears his father’s pleas as he cuts off his air and goes to claim his property, only to find a […]
Tales from the Crypt S6 E10: In the Groove (1994)
Gary (Miguel Ferrer) is a disc jockey who gets sent to graveyard shift for bad ratings by the owner of the station, his sister Rita (Wendie Malick). His show Gary’s Drive-Time Desires also chases away advertisers, so she gives him one last chance. Well, more like she wants to keep him under contract and not going […]
Tales from the Crypt S6 E9: Staired In Horror (1994)
Directed by Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2, Judgement Night) and written by magician Teller and Colman deKay, this stars D.B. Sweeney as Clyde, a killer on the run from the police. He evades them and ends up in the home of the elderly Lillian (Rachel Ticotin, Total Recall), who he soon insults after she saves him from a […]
Tales from the Crypt S6 E8: The Assassin (1994)
Directed by Martin von Haselberg — the husband of Bette Midler — and written by Scott Nimerfro, “The Assassin” has housewife Janet McKay (Shelley Hack) fighting Simone Bardou (Chelsea Field) and her henchmen Todd (Corey Feldman) and William (Jonathan Banks), who are looking for a missing agent named Ronald Wald. This episode starts with the […]
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