One of my very favorite things to find in my mailbox is a package from Vinegar Syndrome. The flicks they choose to restore and distribute were produced primarily between the 1960s and 1980s, before political correctness when what filmmakers put on tape was fast and loose. Affectionately known as Vin …

A few times a year, I open my mailbox to find an innocuous package from cult film preservation and releasing company, Vinegar Syndrome. I never know what film I’m going to get. In the past few months, I’ve reviewed a body horror film (Australia’s Body Melt 1993), a horror parody …

On April 1, 1973. the most bizarre and macabre event in all of Brooklyn’s modern history occurred. Twelve people inside a reputed house of prostitution and an illegal abortion clinic were killed. Only one occupant survived. When found by police, she told a tale so fantastic and horrific, she was …

Anyone who’s read my reviews knows that I am a HUGE fan of anything Filmmaker Larry Fessenden does. When I interviewed him last year (read that interview here), we talked about his newest project, Depraved, a contemporary tale based on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Larry had mentioned his affinity for the …

There are so many shorts at this year’s Boston Underground Film Festival, it was hard to choose only a few to review. After checking out the Futuristic Wrist Watch music video I Owe You One Banana And Two Black Eyes (read the review here) for the fest, I had no …

Is is the year 2021, 3 days since the beginning of the mysterious animal apocalypse. The last human has just died… The animals are running shit now. So begins Filmmaker Jim McDonough’s I Owe You One Banana And Two Black Eyes, a four minute music video from Futuristic Wrist Watch …

In the last few years, western thrillers have come back into the spotlight… you’ve got Bone Tomahawk (2015 – read our review here), The Revenant (2015), The Hateful Eight (2015), True Grit (2010) and Django Unchained (2012), and that’s just off the top of my head. I find them to …

When I first found out that I had the opportunity to interview Emile Hirsch, an actor I have followed and loved since first seeing him in The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys back in 2002, I was so excited I could barely contain myself. Thanks to my beautiful, amazing friend …

Last month, I was greeted at my mailbox by a package from one of my very favorite film distributors, Vinegar Syndrome (see my review of their 4k Blu-ray release of 1993’s Body Melt here). Since I hadn’t ordered anything from them recently, the contents inside that inconspicuous mailing envelope were …

Nuns are pretty scary, and not only because of James Wan’s The Nun (read our review here). First of all, when there’s a bunch of them together (is a group of nuns called a cloister?), they look like clones. They’re all wearing the same outfit that covers them from head to toe, …