RETURN OF KAIJU DAY: Godzilla vs. The Netherlands (1999)
Director Sietske Tjallingii explains to us something that I have always wondered. What happens when Godzilla goes to other countries? And what if it was the Netherlands, where he could pick up trains and whip them around like nunchakus? Could he arrive in the quiet of the night so that he could throw the Ajax […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: Nang Nak (1999)
As the All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2 set takes us throughout not just the world of folk horror but our world itself, it lands in Thailand with Nang Nak, which is based on the legend of Mae Nak Phra Khanong. A gorgeous woman named Nak once lived on the banks of the Phra Khanong canal […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: J-Horror Rising: Shikoku (1999)
Hinako Myoujin (Yui Natsukawa) has come back to her island home of Shikoku from Tokyo. There, she discovers that her friend Sayori Hiura (Chiaki Kuriyama, Gogo Yubari!) has died and that the girl’s mother, Shinto priestess Teruko (Toshie Negishi), has become lost in her grief. Sayori’s high school boyfriend Fumiya (Michitaka Tsutsui) has always felt […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Tomie (1999)
Manga creator Junji Ito grew up in a house where he was afraid to go to the bathroom, as it was at the end of a long underground tunnel filled with water crickets. While working as a dental technician, he was drawing at night and submitted a story to a magazine called Monthly Halloween that would […]
Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Red Eye #1: Wild Zero (1999)
Wild Zero is not a movie. It is an experience, an in your face, melt your brain piece of pure crazy. The kind that makes my wife say, “Do we really own this?” Yes. We do. I’m going to buy it again just to have it twice. Ace is our hero, Guitar Wolf’s biggest fan. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 3: From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999)
April 8: Eclipse — Protect your eyes, stay inside and watch a movie about an eclipse. Luther Heggs (Duane Whitaker) escapes from prison and gets his old gang back together, which is made up of Buck Bowers (Robert Patrick), C.W. Niles (Muse Watson), Jesus Draven (Raymond Cruz) and Ray Bob (Brett Harrelson). As they wait in […]
THAN-KAIJU-GIVING: Planet Patrol (1999)
Planet Patrol is a Full Moon anthology movie without telling you that it will be, taking parts of Kraa! the Sea Monster, Doctor Mordrid, Subspecies and Robot Wars to make an entirely new movie that makes you feel crazy because you’ve certainly seen some of these moments and heard even some of the dialogue. They took […]
POPCORN FRIGHTS 2023: Nightbreed (1999)
I decided to go with the unfairly maligned Nightbreed, a movie that I haven’t seen since it played in theaters in 1990. Directed by Clive Barker and based on his 1988 novella Cabal, this movie was a commercial and critical failure. Barker has always claimed that the producers tried to sell the film as a run of […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY BOX SET: Dawson’s Creek (1996-2003)
I know no bigger fan of Dawson’s Creek than my friend Jim Sloss, who was kind enough to teach me that Pacey’s boat is named True Romance and to write this: Over the years Sam has asked me many times if I’d like to write something for B&S and I’d always hem & haw and then […]
CULT EPICS BLU RAY RELEASE: AmnesiA (2001)
AmnesiA (2001): Directed and written by Martin Koolhoven, AmnesiA is the story of two A’s: Alex and Aram (both played by Fedja van Huêt) and their attempts at reconnecting as they attempt to care for their elderly, dying, constantly drunk and frequently hilarious mother (Sacha Bulthuis). That sounds like anything but something I’d usually want to watch, except […]
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