What at first appears to be a baffling creative choice in the 2014 version of The Town That Dreaded Sundown rapidly reveals itself to be among its greatest assets: In the world of this remake, the original 1976 film exists. Obscure compared to most of what Hollywood revives and reboots these days, that source material … Continue reading The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
Every two-bit tropical island needs a health center, right? Peace Corps good guy Jim Farrell (John Ashley, Beyond Atlantis) thinks so! Brides of Blood boats Jim o’er to ol’ Blood Island — name not official — with Dr. Henderson (Kent Taylor, The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues) and the doc’s young, hot wife (Beverly Powers, The … Continue reading Brides of Blood (1968)
Three scenes utterly traumatized me as a youngster: 1. the reveal of the “star child” in 2001: A Space Odyssey (nightmarish!); 2. the rabbit attack in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (that was a lot of blood); and 3. the finale of Disney’s The Black Hole, wherein an ostensibly family-friendly flick suddenly goes medieval … Continue reading The Black Hole (1979)
Didn’t see 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra? No big whoop, because only two members of the titular elite military team return for the sequel, Retaliation, and one of them is a mute whose face you never see, while the other dies in the first act. In fact, only three Joes in that initial … Continue reading G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)
‘Tis with a fiery passion that I detest comedy writer Steve Oedekerk’s many thumb-based parody shorts, which include Thumbtanic, Bat Thumb and Thumb Wars: The Phantom Cuticle. They’re simply fucking stupid. I dislike them so much that I half-wish he would lose those two digits in an accident, in a bizarre twist of irony. So … Continue reading Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002)