Beginning with the oft-told anecdote of director Tobe Hooper fantasizing about crowd control via a certain gasoline-powered tool during a hectic holiday rush at Montgomery Ward (and thus planting the seeds that soon sprouted into an eventual horror classic), Joseph Lanza’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation is hardly … Continue reading The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: The Film That Terrified a Rattled Nation→
Deep within the Grand National Forest live – well, for the time being – three redneck brothers: Larry, Darryl and Darryl Monroe, Ezra and Benny. They’re about to be displaced, thanks to a new campground opening in time for the July 4 holiday weekend. Monroe (William Kerwin, Blood Feast), the only sibling literate enough to … Continue reading God’s Bloody Acre (1975)→
Fleeing an unhealthy relationship, Greta (a pretty but perfunctory Lauren Cohan, TV’s The Walking Dead) takes a babysitting job overseas in jolly old England. An older couple, the Heelshires (played by Diana Hardcastle of Good People and Jim Norton of Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs), are overdue for a much-needed holiday and need her to watch … Continue reading The Boy (2016)→
Following the unintentional “Garbage day!” greatness of the first sequel, the killer-Claus franchise continues its slay ride with Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! (exclamation point theirs). The most notable thing about it is its trio of future David Lynch players: Mulholland Dr.’s Laura Harring and Twin Peaks’ Richard Beymer and Eric Da … Continue reading Silent Night, Deadly Night III: Better Watch Out! (1989)→
Without question, the ideal gift book for genre film enthusiasts this holiday season is The Art of Horror: An Illustrated History, a beautiful book depicting ugly things. Edited by Stephen Jones, the full-color hardback from Applause Theatre & Cinema Books presents thousands of images from several centuries past to about a year or so ago, … Continue reading Reading Material: Short Ends 11/21/15→
