I caught Deadbeat at Dawn in the Music Box Garden earlier this week as the finale of a three-night "triple nasty triple feature" co-hosted by Odd Obsession Movies and Deadly Prey Gallery. I had never heard of the movie, and I bought tickets mostly because I hadn't been to the Garden yet this summer. I …
You should watch Absentia.
One of the reasons I truly love horror is that it can be done effectively - sometimes perfectly - on basically no budget. If you have a good idea and some theater-kid friends, you can make something that will have people checking under their beds for years for less than the craft services budget of …
Sunday joy
Roger Ebert's 1970 Esquire profile of Lee Marvin, entitled "Who's gonna get me a beer? An interview with Lee Marvin."
You should watch 12 Hour Shift
We arrive in Arkansas in the late 90’s just in time to work a double at the local hospital. Mandy (Angela Bettis), a junkie nurse, runs the supply side of an organ-trafficking ring with the help of her cousin/bagwoman, Regina (a gleeful Chloe Farnworth) and her supervisor, Karen (Nikea Gamby-Turner). After misplacing a kidney, Regina …
You should watch The Host
Like most of America, this was my first exposure to Bong Joon-Ho, the director who won the 2019 Best Picture Oscar for Parasite. I watched it in a friend’s basement in New Haven, Indiana sometime in 2008 and loved it immediately. It’s one of the few monster movies I'm aware of in which the monster …
You should watch H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator
What’s not to love about this movie? You have Jeffrey Combs at his puckery-mouthed weirdest, flawless scream queen Barbara Crampton slowly realizing men are terrible and some absolutely disgusting special effects, all loosely circling the plot of a classic H.P. Lovecraft story. A decapitated head attempts what may be history’s least welcome act of cunnilingus. …
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