My life at the movies.
Directed by Panos Cosmatos. Starring Nicolas Cage, Andrea Riseborough, Linus Roache, and Ned Dennehy.
Saying Mandy is about a man who exacts revenge on the Manson-like cult that murdered his girlfriend is like saying Kill Bill is about a woman exacting revenge on her boss after he kills her husband. Explaining the plot provides no sense of the viewing experience. Continue reading...
Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo, and Antonella Interlenghi.
Director Lucio Fulci’s gory, surreal horror sees a medium and a reporter travel to the remote New England village of Dunwich to stop an undead priest named Father Thomas from opening the gates to Hell. Continue reading...
Directed by Frank Henenlotter. Starring James Lorinz, Joanne Ritchie, Patty Mullen, and J.J. Clark.
Don’t let the title fool you. Director and co-writer Frank Henenlotter’s story of a man’s misguided attempt to reanimate his deceased fiancée by attaching her severed head to a sex worker’s body sports a surprising streak of feminist and trans-positive satire beneath its gory black comedy. Spoilers follow. Continue reading...
Directed by Jonas Åkerlund. Starring Rory Culkin, Emory Cohen, Jack Kilmer, and Sky Ferreira.
I’m not a fan of Norwegian Black Metal or even its more accessible forebears. But Lords of Chaos is the Raging Bull of Norwegian Black Metal movies. Continue reading...
Directed by Steven Ayromlooi. Starring Warwick Davis, Tangi Miller, Laz Alonso, and Page Kennedy.
And so it comes to this. The improbable ten-year, six-film franchise ends with its worst entry. Continue reading...
Directed by Sidney J. Furie. Starring Barbara Hershey, Ron Silver, David Labiosa, and George Coe.
The Entity tells the story of single mom Barbara Hershey who finds herself under repeated, violent sexual assault from an unseen force. Continue reading...
Directed by Kant Leung. Starring Emotion Cheung, Annie Wu, Elvis Tsui, and Anthony Chau-Sang Wong.
In Warlord Era China, two chefs and a rogue monk fight to stop the birth of five demon babies who will bring about the apocalypse. Continue reading...
Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith. Starring Warwick Davis, Brent Jasmer, Jessica Collins, and Guy Siner.
In the 21st century, a group of mercenary space marines working for an eccentric scientist hunt the leprechaun who’s seeking to marry an alien princess. Continue reading...
Directed by Rodman Flender. Starring Warwick Davis, Charlie Heath, Shevonne Durkin, and Sandy Baron.
In Leprechaun 2, Warwick Davis returns as the titular Leprechaun, who targets a Los Angeles woman played by Shevonne Durkin for his bride. Continue reading...
Directed by John Carr, Phillip Marshak, Tom McGowan, Jay Schlossberg-Cohen, and Gregg G. Tallas. Starring Barbara Wyler, Jamie Scoggin, Stacey Lyons, and Linda Maderas.
For an anthology comprising three unrelated low-budget horror features cut to half or a third of their running time and book-ended by God and Satan riding a train to Las Vegas with an 80s teen pop-rock band, Night Train to Terror is better than you’d expect. Continue reading...
