Movie Review: ‘Baghead’
Director: Mark and Jay Duplass Cast: Ross Partridge, Steve Zissis, Greta Gerwig, Elise Muller Plot: A group of aspiring film-makers visit an isolated cabin to workshop a horror script only to be stalked… Continue reading
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Movie Review: ‘All My Friends Are Dead’
Director: Jan Belcl Cast: Michal Meyer, Adam Woronowicz, Julia Wieniawa-Narkiewicz, Adam Turczyk, Nikodem Rozbicki, Monika Krzywkowska, Szymon Roszak, Michal Sikorski, Adam Bobik Plot: A pair of detectives arrive at the aftermath of a… Continue reading
Retro Movie Review: ‘Punishment Park’ (1971)
Director: Peter Watkins Cast: Mark Keats, Gladys Golden, Sanford Golden, Sigmund Rich, George Gregory, Katherine Quittner, Carmen Argenziano Plot: Under the Nixon presidency, a tribunal is establish to deal with anti-government activists. They… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘Son of Frankenstein’
Mary Shelley’s creation is arguably the crown jewel of the Universal Monsters franchise. The creature make-up artist Jack Pierce and director James Whale crafted for Boris Karloff to show-off has become nothing short… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘The Undertaker and His Pals’
Anyone who has read many of my Retro Reviews know that I have a love for sleazy, cheap, exploitative, grindhouse flicks. While these movies are fun, there is a common complaint that many… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘Poltergeist’
Horror is often used as a mirror for the dark side of our society. In Reagans’ America the rich got richer and the nuclear family headed in record numbers to the suburbs to… Continue reading
Movie Review: ‘Freaky’
Director: Christopher Landon Cast: Vince Vaughn, Kathryn Newton, Katie Finneran, Dana Drori, Celeste O’Connor, Misha Osherovich, Uriah Shelton Plot: A masked serial killer attacks a high school girl with an antique dagger, causing… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘The Creature Walks Among Us’
In 1954, Universal Studios introduced what would be the last monster in their famous stable of Universal Monsters in The Creature From the Black Lagoon. They followed it up with the sequel Revenge… Continue reading
Grading the Phantom of the Opera Movies
In 1909, French novelist Gaston Leroux penned a story about a deformed musician who haunted the Paris Opera House. As he lurked in the shadows, the man known as “the Phantom” becomes obsessed… Continue reading
Retro Review: ‘The Slumber Party Massacre’
By 1982 audiences were already becoming familiar with the tropes of a slasher movie where the deranged killer pursues poor young coeds. Feminist activist and screenwriter Rita Mae Brown decided to have some… Continue reading
