My life at the movies.
Directed by Rob Zombie. Starring Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, and William Forsythe.
A superior sequel to House of 1000 Corpses. Returning writer/director Rob Zombie eschews the first-film’s nightmare house scenario and opts for an Empire Strikes Back plot that sees the murderous Firefly clan hunted by a vengeful Texas Sheriff. Continue reading...
Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Sandra Peabody, Lucy Grantham, David Hess, and Fred J. Lincoln.
Wes Craven’s directorial debut. A remake of Ingmar Bergman’s The Virgin Spring. Continue reading...
Directed by Eduardo Fuller. Starring Anne Sparrow, Tony Eades, Clara Keller, Werner Hedman, and Gerda Madsen.
Despite the game performance from Torben Bille, The Sinful Dwarf bores. Continue reading...
Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen, and Keith Gordon.
Angie Dickinson plays a middle-aged housewife with a dutiful husband and a precocious teenage son focused on a computer competition. But she is unhappy. She confesses her sexual frustration to her therapist, played by Michael Caine, then makes a failed pass at him. We then follow her to a museum, where she trolls for a pickup. When she leaves, we learn a black-gloved stranger is stalking her. Continue reading...
Directed by Michael Dougherty. Starring Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner, and Allison Tolman.
I couldn’t spot the added naughty bits in the “Naughty Cut” but I appreciated the new scenes fleshing out the relationships and I loved the HDR color grading.
Directed by Michael Cooney. Starring Scott MacDonald, Christopher Allport, Stephen Mendel, and F. William Parker.
My appreciation grows. I thought this played like a straight slasher with a snowman killer, but it proves more self aware. The cast deadpans the entire way, save Scott MacDonald, who relishes playing a schlock movie monster.
Directed by John Sturges. Starring Leslie Brooks, George Macready, Forrest Tucker, and Charles D. Brown.
The directorial debut of John Sturges. George Macready plays a crusading reporter who seizes an opportunity to expose the fallacy of circumstantial evidence, only to find himself convicted of murder. Top-billed Leslie Brooks plays his girlfriend, who endeared herself to this viewer by avowing her favorite meal as “steak with hash brown potatoes.” Continue reading...
Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, John Steiner, and Raimund Harmstorf.
This sequel to White Fang finds original baddie Beauty Smith once again terrorizing a Yukon mining town. Continue reading...
Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Adriano Celentano, Enzo Cerusico, Marilù Tolo, and Luisa De Santis.
An oft-forgotten entry in director Dario Argento’s filmography. A historical comedy-drama set during Milan’s anti-Austrian revolt of 1848. Continue reading...
Directed by Rob Zombie. Starring Sid Haig, Karen Black, Bill Moseley, and Sheri Moon Zombie.
Rob Zombie’s directorial debut. In the late 70s, four road-tripping college-age kids visit “Captain Spaulding’s Museum of Monsters & Madmen.” Sid Haig plays Spaulding as a combination carnival barker and clown, with a memorable mix of crass humor and menace. When the kids inquire about the local legend of Dr. Satan, Spaulding directs them to a local house where they encounter an all-too-real demented family. Continue reading...
