For the discussion of film
10/10/2017 – Schlock: Vicious Lips (1986) Directed by Albert Pyun Schlock is a term that has long been used to refer to crap. Specifically in the context of film (and especially horror) it refers to a specific type of film. It’s not … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Schlock: Vicious Lips
What’s one of the most frequent complaints about horror films? “They were so dumb! Why didn’t they just….” Not a complaint that can be levelled at any part of Get Out. The audience surrogates never really put a foot wrong…it … Continue reading Scene Dissections: Get Out – Intro
10/09/2017 – Modernized: The Return of Dracula (1958) Directed by Paul Landres As the consistent stream of remakes since the beginning of cinema has proven, there will always be a market for new versions of classic tales. But, just redoing a film over and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Modernized: The Return of Dracula
10/08/2017 – China: Song at Midnight (1937) Directed by Ma-Xu Weibang Any writer who tells you they still like their old work is delusional or lying. Even going back and looking at my write ups from two years ago is painful and … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – China: Song at Midnight
10/07/2017 – Sub-R Horror: Ouija (2014) Directed by Stiles White Nearly 100 years ago in 1922, the Motion Picture Association of America (better known as the MPAA) was founded ostensibly to protect against censorship (especially that which occurred on a regional level) … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Sub-R Horror: Ouija
10/06/2017 – Female Directors: Raw (Grave) (2016) Directed by Julia Ducournau Technically I discussed this topic here last year, but I did so on the 12th review of the final day of the marathon. I summed up the work of over half the world’s … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Female Directors: Raw (Grave)
10/05/2017 – Chucky: Curse of Chucky (2013) Directed by Don Mancini After the release of Halloween in 1978, the Slasher genre quickly fell into patterns. Halloween begat the lousy Friday the 13th series and it seemed like that was the template for everything that followed. Most of the films were … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Chucky: Curse of Chucky
10/04/2017 – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera (1962) Directed by Terence Fisher It may not be defending Saw, but defending remakes can still be a challenging. If there is any genre that has been well served by remakes it is horror. Sure there … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Remakes: The Phantom of the Opera
10/03/2017 – Stephen King: It (2017) Directed by Andy Muschietti As good a year as horror is having, Stephen King may be having one just as good. He’s already co-written a book (with one of his sons which has unsurprisingly already been … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Stephen King: It
10/02/2017 – James Wan: Dead Silence (2007) Directed by James Wan In 2003, two Australians (one born in Malaysia) made a 9 minute short on a shoestring budget in order to be able to pitch a full length version of this idea. … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – James Wan: Dead Silence
10/01/2017 – TV Movies: The Plumber (1979) Directed by Peter Weir Welcome to the another month of horror films and more. If you missed my intro to this project you can check it out here but this is my fourth year of these write … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – TV Movies: The Plumber
Editor’s Note: All of these links point to the channel but going forth I will be editing in links to the correct page on this site for all of 2017. This is merely for easy convenience for those seeking the … Continue reading Month of Horror 2017: Dealer’s Choice – Intro
After the generally terrible audience reception to 1975’s Terror of Mechagodzilla(it was the first Godzilla film to sell less than a million tickets in total!) Toho’s biggest star spent nearly a decade out to pasture. It’s true there were failed attempts … Continue reading Series Spotlight: Heisei-era Godzilla
I decided to write this Spotlight after posting GIFs of Takeshi Kitano movies in the “Identify That GIF” thread and having them go misidentified on multiple occasions. I’ve seen six of Kitano’s movies and read a bunch of articles, but … Continue reading Actor Spotlight: Takeshi Kitano – Existential Gangster and Goofball Comedian
Tracey Walter is a veteran character actor who you have not only seen, but probably recognized once or twice, given his decades of consistent work and recognizable appearance. He’s a little guy, with a kind of funny voice, and an … Continue reading Actor Spotlight: Tracey Walter – Hey, It’s That Guy
“…Here are your choices: talk or die” – Unknown voice actor dubbing one of Steven Seagal’s lines, Attack Force Rob Schneider had this great story that he came out of his dressing room and (Seagal) said ‘I just read the greatest … Continue reading Actor Spotlight: Steven Seagal
Director Spotlight courtesy of Ben So you ever watch a bunch of stuff, that you really enjoyed, then look into who created it and realized that the same person made like all your favorite things? So that’s how I discovered … Continue reading Director Spotlight: Hiroyuki Imaishi
Neil Marshall is, I think , the most interesting director of the so called ‘Splat Pack’, the group of film makers grouped together because of their low budget/high gore ethos. He’s certainly had the most varied career. While some like … Continue reading Director Spotlight: Neil Marshall
The four Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo) really were brothers, but they had boring regular first names as kids. They grew up poor on New York’s East Side. In Harpo’s excellent autobiography, Harpo Speaks, he writes about learning … Continue reading Actor Spotlight: The Marx Brothers
Lethal weapon opens to the strains of ‘Jingle Bell rock’ , A beautiful scarlet nailed woman in a penthouse apartment snorts railroad lines of something. She blearily wanders to the balcony, looking out at the nightlights of the big city. … Continue reading Director Spotlight: Shane Black
I learned that just beneath the surface there’s another world, and still different worlds as you dig deeper. I knew it as a kid, but I couldn’t find the proof. It was just a kind of feeling. There is goodness … Continue reading Director Spotlight: David Lynch
