More creatively satisfying than World Gone Wild, his 2014 survey of postapocalyptic films, David J. Moore’s The Good, the Tough & the Deadly: Action Movies & Stars 1960s-Present is in reach of claiming definitive status, but falls short in its deliberate choice (too convoluted to discuss here) to exclude the genre’s seminal titles from coverage. … Continue reading Reading Material: Short Ends 7/4/2016→
After the acclaimed 2009 documentary Cropsey, what does filmmaker Joshua Zeman do for a follow-up? More of the same, with emphasis on “more.” See, rather than spend an hour and a half investigating the truth behind another urban legend, Killer Legends sees Zeman investigating four of them. The film’s style continues in that Cropsey vein, … Continue reading Killer Legends (2014)→
Presented by some organization calling itself The October Society, Tales of Halloween makes a bid for annual play with an anthology of 10 stories, each by a director whose name is likely familiar to the horror faithful. More treats exist than tricks, and the whole party is hosted (although almost exclusively through a vocal performance) … Continue reading Tales of Halloween (2015)→