2026 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 28: The Wicker Man (2006)
28. THE BLACK AND THE YELLOW: We’re partial to this palette, so please enjoy a film that includes this visual motif. There is bad cinema, there is high art, and then there is that sacred, lightning-in-a-bottle overlap where absolute absurdism collides with a $40 million budget. Neil LaBute’s 2006 remake of The Wicker Man doesn’t […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Legend of the Sandsquatch (2006)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there; it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Pathogen (2006)
Week 11 (Aug 30 – Sept 5) – Lost in the Static: SOV Horror Directed by Women: I dunno about you, but I wanna see more ladies directing gory, fucked-up SOV horror! Obviously this isn’t everything that’s out there, it’s just the ones discussed in Rachel Herb-Neterer’s book “Lost in the Static: The Untold Stories of Shot-On-Video […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Battlespace (2006)
Week 3 (July 5 – 11) – Maverick Entertainment Group One of the most overlooked and consistent low-budget film companies of the 21st century, they’ve been full steam ahead in the streaming era while other indies have cratered. From the Maverick Entertainment Group website: Founded in 1997, Maverick continues to be a leading distributor and producer of […]
JUNESPLOITATION: Kiltro (2006)
DAY 12: Kung fu! This is the film that introduced the world to Marko Zaror, a man who moves with the kind of gravity-defying grace that makes you wonder if he’s actually human. It was written and directed by Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, who also made Bring Me the Head of Machine Gun Woman and Fist […]
CLEOPATRA ENTERTAINMENT BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Fabulous Thunderbirds Live In Houston (2006)
Founded in 1974 by harmonica player/vocalist Kim Wilson and guitarist Jimmie Vaughan (brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan), The Fabulous Thunderbirds were originally just a blues band, before their sound evolved to include rock and soul. Recorded live at Warehouse Live on June 30, 2006, this release captures Kim and the boys playing songs like “Tuff […]
88 FILMS BLU-RAY RELEASE: Sakuran (2006)
If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if a box of neon crayons exploded inside a 19th-century Japanese brothel, Mika Ninagawa has the answer. Stepping away from her camera lens and into the director’s chair for the first time, Ninagawa turns the legendary Yoshiwara red-light district into a fever dream of hyper-saturated reds, […]
MVD 4K UHD and BLU-RAY RELEASE: Zyzzyx Road (2006)
Everyone wants to be in the record books. John Penney’s Zyzzyx Road is in them for the lowest-grossing film in U.S. history. How low? We’re talking thirty dollars. If we’re being honest and subtracting the ten bucks that producer/star Leo Grillo refunded to the film’s own makeup artist, the actual theatrical run of this movie […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 22: Right at Your Door (2006)
April 22: Earth Day Ends Here — Instead of celebrating a holiday created by a murderer, share an end of the world disaster movie with us. You can also take care of the planet while you’re writing. Los Angeles has finally had the “Big One,” but it’s not the San Andreas Fault. It’s a series of dirty […]
Hollywood’s War on God (2006)
Directed, written, and featuring Joe Schimmel, as well as David Jeremiah, this explains the idea that all Hollywood films are based on Gnosticism, a syncretic religious movement centered on dualism. They believed in two forms of God: one a transcendent, true God, and the other a lower Demiurge responsible for the material world. In this […]
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