It's not often that I watch a movie that warps my definition of the word "movie" but when you finish a movie and then you realize that so much crazy shit happened that you forgot that Andy Dick was in it, you know you just watched something truly special.
The sets are constantly falling apart. Lines get fucked up constantly even though it's obvious some people are reading them from cue cards. Decisions are made that don't make any sense.…
Road Hell is something incredibly special. Words cannot properly describe how this movie has crawled underneath my skin and completely taken over my entire brain. It's truly perfect.
I've been a huge fan of Pete Jacelone's movies for years now but I've always put off buying this one. Something about it just didn't seem like it was much of a priority. It's just an anthology called Road Hell, it couldn't possibly be more interesting than something called Chad's Dental Nightmare.…
Ron Atkins is probably most known for Schizophreniac: The Whore Mangler and Necromaniac: Schizophreniac 2, his horrifically offensive one-two SOV punch from the late 90s. This is his insanely obscure and ridiculously impossible to find first movie. I happened to find a copy a few months ago and finally watched it last night at a friend's place. We were expecting Reservoir Dogs but made in one apartment for about $35 and while Reservoir Dogs was most definitely the inspiration behind…
Most filmmakers would have taken the first fifteen minutes of this movie and stretched it out to 70+ minutes and made a proper slasher. To be fair, there's a cool movie in there but Mark Mason wasn't interested in making a simple slasher movie. He had bigger things in mind.
15 years later the "guilty party" behind the gruesome slaughter in that first 15 minutes of the movie is being moved to a different facility, a la Michael Myers. He…
"Without Manos: The Hands of Fate there would be no 2001: A Space Oddyssey."
-Stanley Kubrick
"Robert Smith Jr and Russ Huddleston's score is the reason I started composing"
-John Williams
"I almost quit show business for good the first time I saw Manos. I mean, when a performance as brilliant as John Reynolds' Torgo already exists why would I even bother trying..."
-Jack Nicholson
