Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Templar Nation (2013)
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 […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Girls Like Us (2013)
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: Neverlake (2013)
DAY 27: Italian Cinema! Jenny (Daisy Keeping), a young English woman, heads to Italy to reconnect with her estranged father, Dr. Brooks (David Brandon, Stagefright, Beyond Darkness). Once a respected medical professional, Brooks has traded in his stethoscope for a trowel, acting as an amateur archaeologist obsessed with a lake—an actual place, The Lake of Idols—once worshipped […]
CULTPIX MONTH: Color Correct My C. (2013)
James Bialkowski and Jacob Windatt of Vagrant Video took a bunch of trailers, threw an open and close on it, found some old Canadian ads and drive-in snack bar commercials and tossed this in my face. It’s packed with some trailers you rarely, if ever, see on compilations, as well as a not small amount […]
I’m In Love With a Church Girl (2013)
Wealthy drug dealer Miles Montego (Ja Rule) starts dating out of his type when he meets Vanessa Leon (Adrienne Bailon, who I know dated Rob Kardashian), a lovely Christian woman (“A cross upon her bedroom wall / From grace she will fall / An image burning in her mind / And between her thighs”) at […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 28: Rigor Mortis (2013)
28. A Post-2000s Hong Kong Horror Film Chin Siu-ho, the star of Mr. Vampire, is suicidal after his wife divorces him and takes his son. Moving into a run-down apartment, he soon tries to hang himself, which brings twin ghosts his way, possessing him. He’s soon saved by Yau (Anthony Chan, who was also in […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 17: The Conjuring (2013)
17. THE WATCHENING: Today’s film title should end with an -ing. Oh man, the whitewashing of the Warrens starts here, but at least James Wan made one great art-directed movie, a film that has a scary room filled with occult objects like Annabelle, who couldn’t stay in just one movie. Ed and Lorraine (Patrick Wilson […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: Moebius (2013)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes. Today’s theme: South Korea Directed and written by Kim […]
THE IMPORTANT CINEMA CLUB’S SUPER SCARY MOVIE CHALLENGE DAY 3: Cult (2013)
October 3: A Found Footage Horror Film Directed by Koji Shiraishi Directed and written by Kōji Shiraishi, this starts when Tomoe Kaneda (Sayuri Oyamada) and her 15-year-old daughter Miho catch paranormal activity in their new home on camera. A paranormal TV show sends actresses Yu Abiru, Mayuko Iwasa, Natsumi Okamoto, and Mari Iriki — playing themselves […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Computer Chess (2013)
Sept 15-21 Mockumentary Week: “Ladies and gentlemen, by way of introduction, this is a film about trickery – and fraud. About lies. Tell it by the fireside, in a marketplace, or in a movie. Almost any story is almost certainly some kind of lie. But not this time. No, this is a promise. During the […]
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