Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: M 10.28 (1999)
Week 1 (June 21 – 27) – Welcome to HELL The summer’s here, so get ready to broil! Bruce Neubauer somehow made this movie in under an hour, and unlike so many Christian scare movies, this isn’t for a strictly religious audience. It also presents a world where teen parties are filled with strobes, people who want to […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2026 Red Eye #5: Horror Brunch (1987), Mind Control Made Easy or How to Become a Cult Leader (1999), Forklift Driver Klaus: The First Day on the Job (2001) and Dementia (1955)
Horror Brunch (1987): This short film, directed by Rik Carter, is a high-energy, blood-soaked love letter to horror cinema. A group gathers for an ordinary brunch, but the meal is interrupted when the food and utensils turn murderous. The narrative escalates into a chaotic showcase of practical gore and genre moments featuring cameos from Norman Bates, […]
Gialloparma (Scandalous Crimes) (1999)
Margot (Natacha Amal) has come back to Parma to get revenge for being raped when she was younger, working with her former love, Giulio (Kaspar Capparoni) and Judge Bocchi (Robert Hossein). Those men who attacked her are the wealthiest and most powerful people, yet she’s very determined. This was directed and written by Alberto Bevilacqua and […]
ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Reptilian (1999)
A remake of Yongary, Monster from the Deep, when you look at the poster art for this, you can see that they were trying to get ahead of the Godzilla remake. The 1999 version has never been released in the U.S.; the U.S. cut is taken from the 2001 remix, Yonggary: 2001 Upgrade Edition. Why it […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 2: The Thirteenth Floor (1999)
October 2. A Horror Film That Features Virtual Reality Loosely based on Daniel F. Galouye’s 1964 novel, Simulacron-3, it is a remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 miniseries World on a Wire. Fancy, right? Directed by Josef Rusnak, who co-wrote it with Ravel Centeno-Rodriguez, this is about the death of the owner of a VR […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Detroit Rock City (1999)
Aug 25-31 Natasha Lyonne Week: There’s a new season of her weirdo mystery of the week coming out (I can’t remember the name rn, you can look it up), and she’s been steadily delivering chuckles for decades now. Back when I worked in a Toys R Us building bikes, Saturday night at 9 on WDVE, […]
LIONSGATE 4K UHD RELEASE: Stir of Echoes (1999)
Based on the Richard Matheson novel and directed and written by David Koepp (who wrote I Come In Peace, Toy Soldiers, Jurassic Park and Carlito’s Way and directed Secret Window, Mortdecai and You Should Have Left), Stir of Echoes is about phone lineman Tom Witzky (Kevin Bacon), who can see and speak to the dead after being hypnotized by his […]
ARROW 4K UHD ARELEASE: Deep Blue Sea (1999)
A lot of people talk down on Renny Harlin. But with his films — Prison, A Nightmare on Elm Street part 4: The Dream Master, Die Hard 2, The Long Kiss Goodnight and more — you know exactly what you’re getting. A popcorn movie with no brain ready to entertain you until you can’t take it any more. […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: The King of Queens (1998-2007)
Premiering on CBS on September 21, 1998, The King of Queens was one of those shows that always seemed to be on. I had never watched it, and all I knew about Kevin James was that he was Mick Foley’s high school wrestling teammate. But when I showed the box set on our weekly “What Came […]
EM Embalming (1999)
Directed by Shinji Aoyama, EM Embalming follows Miyaki Murakami (Reiko Takashima), an embalmer — did you guess from the title? — who assists Detective Hiroka (Yutaka Matsushige) in investigating the suicide of Yoshiko Shindo, the son of a local politician. Yoshiko has jumped to his death from a building. To aid in the investigation, Reiko […]
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