I'll watch any movie with my name in the credits :)
I participated and appear in this documentary and even if I didn't, it would be near and dear to my heart. It's the story of a cottage industry - the local "brick and mortar" videogame shop - and its future chances against the inevitable world of digital distribution. The movie asks the question "as ownership goes digital, what gets left behind?".
To date, I've only seen the rough cut.…
If you’ve been looking for a movie with lots of tentacles, a giant animated brain with a sharp-toothed Madballs head, and the guy who played Dr. Hill in Reanimator all involved in a mind control-via television plot, look no further, I’ve finally found one for you.
The story is pretty “out there” and it’s very uneven but it’s certainly entertaining. We chuckled at every appearance of the brain monster, it’s truly a low budget gem of a thing.
There’s also a…
This is a fascinating piece of cinema history. Grindhouse to the bone (pun intended) but featuring future “A List” talent. Directed by Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Stripes, Kindergarten Cop) and starring SCTV alumni Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin in their first major roles. It’s as unlikely as it sounds.
Levy is sporting a huge afro and plays the rock musician boyfriend. Martin is his girlfriend, she’s sweet and a bit of an airhead. You can spot their acting chops right away…
It’s a work of art, a swath of style and contradiction. It’s a zombie movie with its own canon. It’s equal parts Lynch and Raimi. It’s foreign to an American like me, yet it’s in English. It’s a love story in a unique triangle. Its ugliest images are some of the most beautiful I’ve seen in a horror film. It’s a buddy film with a parallel universe Curly Howard as the buddy. It’s The Walking Dead-creative-killing 20 years before Dead was born. It’s gothic and simultaneously hip.
“I’d give my life to be dead” - Dellamorte
It is absurd. And it makes perfect sense.
Felt very much like a spiritual successor to The Blair Witch Project, which is a good thing because I’d like a good alternative and most found footage movies don’t do it for me. A few genuinely good scares and an overall spooky vibe make this “haunted house Halloween amusement in a REAL haunted house” reality film a winner. Almost definitely better on a rewatch, too, as there are lots of quick peeks at weird stuff and I’d be cheating if I rewound and paused.
A top 10 horror found footage movie!
