Chattanooga Film Festival 2025 Red Eye #6: Southlander (2001)
Originally titled Recycler, after the Los Angeles magazine of the same name, this has a keyboard player named Chance (Rory Cochrane) getting to tour with dub-pop band Future Pigeon and their lead singer Rocket (Beth Orton), as long as he finds his signature sound. It exists in a Molotron keyboard which gets stolen the night […]
CHATTANOOGA FILM FESTIVAL 2025: Inertia: Re-Making The Crow (2001)/James O’Barr’s The Crow (1998)
Inertia: Re-Making The Crow (2001): Directed by David Ullman along with Matt Jackson, who in their teen years decided to take an obsession over the film The Crow and recreate it with a version closer to James O’Barr’s original graphic novel. Shot on video and in black and white, this took four years and drove […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Turbulence 3: Heavy Metal (2001)
June 18: Junesploitation’s topic of the day — as suggested by F This Movie— is Rock and Roll! This movie is so much better than it has any right to be. The third movie in a series of air disaster movies with a Hot Topic aesthetic should not be this good. Slade Craven (John Mann, […]
ARROW VIDEO UHD RELEASE: Jason X (2001)
In 2010 — 9 years in the future from when this was made, 15 years in the past from when this was written! — Jason is captured by the U.S. government but can’t be killed, so government scientist Rowan LaFontaine decides to place the killer in suspended animation. Of course, a bunch of soldiers screws […]
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 […]
Midnight Vendetta (2001)
Also known as Thy Neighbour’s Wife, Sex Attraction and Poison, this stars Kari Wuhrer, who from 1988-1989 was the it girl on MTV’s Remote Control (but not the first or the last; the show has Marisol Massey in season 1, Wuhrer was replaced by Alicia Coppola and the last episodes had Susan Ashley in the role). By […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Valentine (2001)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this Saturday, January 11 at 7 p.m. at the Sie Film Center in Denver, CO. (tickets here). It will be hosted by Keith Garcia, Sie FilmCenter Artistic Director. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Valentine is a post-Scream slasher that feels closer to a giallo than an American slasher […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: J-Horror Rising: St. John’s Wort (2001)
Otogirisō wasn’t marketed as a video game but instead a sound novel, today called a visual novel. Koichi Nakamura conceived the title after showing his work on the Dragon Quest games to a girl he was dating. She didn’t understand the game or why people would want to play it, so he decided to make a […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: J-Horror Rising: Inugami (2001)
Akira Nutahara (Atsuro Watabe) has arrived on Shikoku island to be a schoolteacher. He has fallen in love with Miki (Yûki Amami), an older woman and paper maker who cares for an urn that is said to carry Inugami, a forest wolf spirit. Her family is set to commemorate the 900 Year Rites in which […]
Dr. Terrible’s House of Horrible (2001)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Exploitation-film historian A.C. Nicholas, who has a sketchy background and hails from parts unknown in Western Pennsylvania, was once a drive-in theater projectionist and disk jockey. In addition to being a writer, editor, podcaster, and voice-over artist, he’s a regular guest co-host on the streaming Drive-In Asylum Double Feature and has been […]
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