Chattanooga Film Festival: Emily’s Monster (2020)
Young Emily is doing what every horror movie child inevitably does: snooping where she has no business being. Her target is the basement, a dark, dusty repository of household secrets. What she unearths down there is decidedly not a lost plaything or a dusty box of old records. It’s something much, much worse. The moment […]
TROMA 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY RELEASE: Shakespeare’s Shitstorm (2020)
I guess after fifty years of independent filmmaking, Lloyd Kaufman has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants, even if I never end up liking most of it. In this movie, what he wants is to take a giant dump on the Bard of Avon. If you thought Tromeo and Juliet was […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 27: Powerbomb (2020)
April 27: Kayfabe Cinema — A movie with a pro wrestler in it. This hits a bit close to home, as I did indies for more than twenty years, so when I saw Matt Cross, formely M-Dogg, “Super Cop” Dick Justice and “The Handicap Hero” Gregory Iron show up in the first few minutes of a […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 12: Blood Freak (2020)
April 12: 412 Day — A movie about Pittsburgh (if you’re not from here that’s our area code). Or maybe one made here. Heck, just write about Striking Distance if you want. Isn’t Blood Freak made in Miami? Yes, but this is Yinzer Blood Freak, made right here in Pittsburgh. Yes, this time, we’ve moved from the balmy Atlantic breeze […]
Sin Apple (2020)
Directed and written by Kenya Cagle, Sin Apple is what happens when a love spell goes wrong. Sure, you get the love of your life to worship you — “I ask her to fart. She farts.” — but then it all goes too far. Kind of like this movie, which is 110 minutes, but things end […]
Assassin 33 A.D. (2020)
“While doing research, a group of young geniuses accidentally stumbles upon a secret terrorist plot to create a time machine to go back in time and change history.” You have no idea how fast I raced to Tubi and watched this. They’re not just changing history. They’re sending a military force back in time to […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: History of the Occult (2020)
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 America! Historia de lo Oculto is the […]
2025 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 4: Kandisha (2020)
4. MYTHICAL CREATURES: Though they are hard to capture, you must see one in this feature. Three teenage friends — Amélie (Mathilde Lamusse), Bintou (Suzy Bemba) and Morjana (Samarcande Saadi) — invoke the spirit of Aïsha Kandisha (Meriem Sarolie), the avenging creature of Moroccan legend, by using blood and a pentagram. This seems like the […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: The Pizzagate Massacre (2020)
July 14-20 Vanity Project Week: “…it might be said that the specific remedy for vanity is laughter, and that the one failing that is essentially laughter is vanity.” Are these products of passionate and industrious independent filmmakers OR outrageous glimpses into the inner workings of self-obsessed maniacs?? Director, writer, producer, editor and composer John Valley […]
SYNAPSE FILMS 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: The Block Island Sound (2020)
Something horrible is happening off the coast of Block Island. Birds drop out of the sky, fish wash up on shore and people are losing what’s left of their minds, like Tom, the father of Harry Lynch (Chris Sheffield). He’s becoming angrier and more forgetful by the day. His sister Audrey (Michaela McManus) has come […]
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