Death Proof
Quentin Tarantino has become something of an institution. His films have been a cultural force since he broke out into the Indie Film scene back in the early nineties. Tarantino’s… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Arena
Arena (1989) finds producer Charles Band cashing-in on the popularity of kickboxing and pro-wrestling in the late eighties. In a stroke of what could be called marketing genius, Band dresses… Read more »
The Rare Blue Apes Of Cannibal Isle
The Rare Blue Apes Of Cannibal Isle (1974) is one of ten “lost” films that Vinegar Syndrome has restored and released in the commemorative boxed set The Lost Picture Show…. Read more »
Gremlins
“There goes my career in noodles” – Mr. Futterman Gremlins (1984) opens like an old anthology horror comic as the inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) ventures into Chinatown in search… Read more »
Silent Night, Bloody Night
A precursor to both Black Christmas (1974) and Halloween (1978), Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972) is something of an unsung classic in the Holiday Horror genre. Silent Night, Bloody Night… Read more »
‘R Xmas
Abel Ferrara’s film ‘R Xmas (2001) reprises many of the defining themes of his earlier picture King Of New York (1990). In King Of New York, Ferrara depicted a city… Read more »
The Night Before Christmas
On Christmas Eve the Devil (Georgy Millyar) descends on a remote village to stir up mischief. In the same village, the pious painter and blacksmith Vakula (Yuri Tavrov) finds his… Read more »
Surviving Christmas
When the box office bomb Surviving Christmas (2004) came to home video I was working at the local video store. It was a “mom and pop” establishment and the boss… Read more »
I Come In Peace
I Come In Peace (1990) exists somewhere between the maximalist genre spectacles of Predator 2 (1990) and the sleazy sci-fi take on the buddy cop movie of the underrated The… Read more »
The Holdovers
When The Holdovers (2023) came out in November I heard that the film was Alexander Payne’s love letter to the Hal Ashby classic The Last Detail (1973). So like any… Read more »
