Andy Fickman’s (Heathers: the Musical) Don’t Turn Out the Lights is quite a romp for me that left me a little torn, But I managed the basic things. I call to come in with an open mind and judge from there. Once I did, I felt it a lot more. …
Read More »Rodger Griffiths’ ‘BETRAYAL’ : A Frightening Portrait Of Abuse – Review
Rodger Griffiths’ Betrayal starts off with a bang, quite literally. Three brothers decide to shoot their father while out on a hunting expedition. But nothing really goes according to plan, and things escalate quickly. The film tells the story not only of the brothers’ plans to get away with murder, …
Read More »A Tale Of Many Holes – ‘TERROR FIRMA’ (2023) – Blu-ray Review
Holes. There’s lots of them in the first feature from Brian Yuzna & John Penney’s Dark Arts Entertainment. Fortunately for newly minted writer/director Jake MacPherson, Terror Firma (not to be confused with the Tromatic masterpiece Terror Firmer) has a big hole in a garden plot, but not in the actual …
Read More »From The Slimy Depths Of The Ocean: ‘CROCODILE’ (1979) – Blu-ray Review
Okay, say you’re in Thailand and you want to make a quick buck. You’re thinking maybe shoot a movie, glomming onto the success of Jaws or maybe a Godzilla type flick. Jaws it is then, but you want to giant radioactive lizard in it too, so maybe not a total …
Read More »A New Level Of WTF-ness: ‘RAT MAN’ (1988) – Blu-ray Review
At the risk of coming off as if I’m pigeonholing an entire ethnic group, I will make the following statement (that I believe in my heart is 100% true): Italians have made some fucking bonkers films. Exhibit A: Rat Man. Directed by Giuliano Carnimeo (Find A Place To Die), and …
Read More »M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘THE VILLAGE’ (2004) – Twenty Years Later
With his new film Trap in theaters, M. Night Shyamalan seems to have picked up a steady rhythm of success since the critical downturn of his work in the late 2010’s. Since The Visit and Split, Shyamalan seems to have climbed out of the rut in which his string of …
Read More »Milkshakes and Murders: ‘Confessions Of A Serial Killer’ (1985) – Blu-ray Review
In the pantheon of American serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas will always stand out. The way he matter-of-factly confessed to countless depraved acts, to the freewheeling way he would confess to crimes he likely didn’t commit (law enforcement from around the country would feed him details to clear their unsolved …
Read More »Ruffled Feathers: ‘THE CROW’ (2024) – Review (SPOILERS)
These days, with everyone so connected the whole world over, it’s tough to go into anything blind and allow yourself to be surprised. Especially if you belong to such an impassioned fan base as that of James O’Barr’s graphic masterpiece, The Crow – a love letter to his late girlfriend. …
Read More »‘OUT COME THE WOLVES’ (2024) – Movie Review
We’ve seen many different variations on the werewolf subgenre in horror over the years. But the scariest horror is the type that peers out from inside oneself, and that’s the type of story that Out Come The Wolves tells. Let’s take a look at the newest IFC/Shudder release and see …
Read More »‘REALM OF SHADOWS’ (2024) – Movie Review
Anthology film are very much my jam. I love seeing all the different stories and how things connect. I was given the opportunity recently to check out of Realm of Shadows, an anthology film featuring the wonderful Tony Todd. Read on for my thoughts. Synopsis Enter a world of mystery, …
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