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Onibaba (1964, Kaneto Shindo)
Brilliant movie. It’s a simple, straightforward story with just a few characters, but manages to have some of the most indelible horror scenes, the most erotic moments, best cinematography and craziest...
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Possession (1981, Andrzej Zulawski)
Funny that I’d watch this a couple days after The Tenant, not knowing of their connections. Both are made by Polish directors who started by working under Andrzej Wajda, both star Isabelle Adjani,...
View ArticleEvil Dead double-feature
Nice intro to the upcoming Alamo Drafthouse, a free outdoor double-feature at the nearby Sokol Ampitheater. I’ve seen these a bunch of times, but not lately. The Evil Dead (1981) Still more horror than...
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Southbound (2015)
Anthology movies are a SHOCKtober tradition – a tradition of uneven movies with at least one entirely bad segment and a hodgepodge of acting. This one’s pretty consistent in tone and instead of a...
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Pumpkinhead (1989, Stan Winston)
Sometimes I get it wrong. I remembered this from 25 years ago as a pretty good movie with a great creature and cool lighting, so I bought it cheap on blu-ray, and it’s a very bad movie with a great...
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The Wailing (2016, Na Hong-jin)
Bloody mess (in both bad ways and good) of an occult horror movie. I missed Na Hong-jin’s The Chaser and The Yellow Sea – finally checking him out for SHOCKtober this year. Lead policeman Jong-Gu (Kwak...
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Howl’s Moving Castle (2004, Hayao Miyazaki)
The adventures of: Heen, a coughing laryngytic dog Markl, child with a fake beard Turnip, a scarecrow And also: Sophie, a cursed girl Howl, a bird-demon And also: Witch of the Waste, melty-faced after...
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Moana (2016, Disney)
Moana’s island is dying because demigod Maui desecrated a statue, and the villagers are strictly forbidden from sailing beyond the island, but Moana’s grandma doesn’t care about these men and their...
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Evil Dead (2013, Fede Alvarez)
Okay, we’re at a crisis point with the movie blog. I fell about two months behind, only taking basic plot and character notes on the last 25 movies, so I need to admit the next few posts are going to...
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The Void (2016, Gillespie & Kostanski)
Cop brings injured dude to near-abandoned rural hospital, bringing to mind that Southbound episode from last year’s SHOCKtober, or Attack on Hospital 13. Then hooded cultists appear outside and they...
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Hellraiser 10: Judgment (2018, Gary Tunnicliffe)
I’d been calling this Hellraiser 9, deciding the 2011 semi-reboot Revelations shouldn’t count, but then, do any of them count? Everything since part two has been direct-to-video fan-fiction. It’s time...
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Pyewacket (2017, Adam MacDonald)
High schooler Nicole Muñoz gets very emotional when her mom (Laurie Holden of Silent Hill and The Mist) moves them both an hour away into the country after the dad’s pre-movie death, so Nicole finds a...
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Mandy (2018, Panos Cosmatos)
A failed recording artist turned minor cult leader ties up Nicolas Cage and kills his wife – bad move. Nic John Wicks the enemy, but with less professional skill and more sheer bloody rage. The cult...
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The Alchemist Cookbook (2016, Joel Potrykus)
I still want to catch up with Coyote and Buzzard, but had the chance to see this first, and like Ape, it’s about a delusional loner – and now that Relaxer is out, it looks like Potrykus is gonna make a...
View ArticleThe Last Ten Minutes vol. 24: SHOCKtober 2019 Edition
It has been over a year since I’ve watched the last ten minutes of a bunch of mediocre horror movies on streaming sites, and the temptation to properly watch some of these has been building, so it’s...
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The Church (1989, Michele Soavi)
The movie opens very promisingly, with an owl… then things get nuts real fast. A team of knights are led by a Gilliam-looking toadie to a cave full of witches – innocent-looking, but supposedly cursed...
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Viy (1967, Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov)
Released from church school on vacation, all the students immediately steal from the market, assault women, and generally terrorize the town. Three dim individuals get lost in the country and find a...
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Zombi Child (2019, Bertrand Bonello)
Haiti, 1962: a guy dies after walking in shoes cursed with ashes of puffer-fish- innards, becomes part of an army of twilight zombies cutting cane, but awakens from his half-life and returns home....
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Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (1977, George Barry)
A very honestly eccentric movie. It’s not a horror comedy, but with that title and concept it can’t be intended seriously either. Or maybe it was meant to be a horror comedy (early on, after dissolving...
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The Blazing World (2021, Carlson Young)
A girl drowning while her neglectful parents fight inside reminds of Don’t Look Now, but Udo Kier appearing with a wormhole does not. Years later, the drowned girl’s twin sister is in college, drawings...
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