Reviews

Jem Garrard’s ‘TAKEOUT’ (2025) – Movie Review

Jem Garrard’s Takeout is a new Tubi original movie that you won’t want to sleep on. This movie melds together comedy, mystery, and terror. Takeout caught me completely by surprise after thinking to myself that I should at least give it one watch, and I am glad I did. Takeout …

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Living Dead Girls: A. Rushby’s ‘SLASHED BEAUTIES’ (2025) – Book Review

Anatomical Venus - Photograph: University of Montpellier

Author A. Rushby (The Stand In 2022) takes readers on a journey into the dark underbelly of Georgian-era London with Slashed Beauties. In an attempt to entice male medical students to study female anatomy in eighteenth-century London, ultrarealistic wax figures of women are created – otherwise known as anatomical Venuses. …

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Time To Put These Toys Away: ‘PUPPET MASTER VS. DEMONIC TOYS’ (2004) Revisited – Retro Review

Remember when everyone was super excited about all the possible horror movie crossovers after Freddy vs Jason came out? I remember hearing that there was going to be a Pinhead vs Michael Myers movie, one featuring Ash taking on both Jason and Freddy (which actually became a reality in the …

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Joe Chapelle’s ‘HALLOWEEN: THE CURSE OF MICHAEL MYERS’ (1995) – Retro Review

When you mention Joe Chappelle’s Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers, be wary; some people hate this movie with a passion and will berate you. I don’t think that is very fair. I enjoy this movie for what it is. Was it silly? Of course it was. In the 1990s, Horror …

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Hell of a Good Time: The Boulet Brothers’ 666 Tour

 The Season 666 Tour is the live extension of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula television competition (Season 6, aka “666”). It brings the monstrous glamour, horror, and theatricality from screen to stage. The Boulet Brothers (DRACMORDA & SWANTHULA) host with dark humor and flair, with performances from contestants (“monsters”) blending filth, …

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Bill Fishman’s ‘WALTZING WITH BRANDO’ – Movie Review

Waltzing With Brando is one of those rare films that feels like stepping into a fever dream, especially through the perspective of Jon Heder’s character. Heder plays an architect hired to help Marlon Brando design and build a hotel on Brando’s private island, a story so strange that it almost …

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‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’ (1960): The Cult Classic That Bloomed on a Shoestring

Roger Corman’s Little Shop of Horrors (1960) is the kind of movie that proves how far ingenuity can stretch a dollar. Shot in just two days and one night on leftover sets from Corman’s earlier film A Bucket of Blood, this scrappy black comedy has grown into one of cinema’s …

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Parody Goes Meh: 35 Years of Bob Logan’s ‘REPOSSESSED’ (1990)

For connoisseurs of parody movies, the gold standard are films such as Hot Shots, The Naked Gun and Scary Movie. Then you have the opposite end of the spectrum with some of the biggest atrocities committed to film (looking at you Friedberg and Seltzer!). Then you have the middle. The …

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It’s Not the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: ‘JACK-O’ (1995) Revisited – Retro Review

One night back in 1995 my mom and I were hanging out and were both feeling bored, so I decided to go rent a movie from our local video store. A lot of movies were rented out when I got there and there wasn’t a whole lot to choose from, …

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