Claudia Christian, who only appears in classics such as THE HIDDEN, MANIAC COP 2, THE DARK BACKWARD, MOM, A GNOME NAMED GNORM and HEXED, absolutely steals the show here. Playing Claire, the newly-single sister to Lindsey (Kathleen Quinlan), Christian sells a shitty country home to Lindsey and her husband Paul (Timothy Busfield). The wiring is bad, the ceilings are brittle and it's been staked by a gang of homicidal cats who want to eat Lindsey's freakishly doll-like toddler. To top…

Summer Jam Entry #6: HEAVY TRIP

The performer(s): Impaled Rektum

Impediment(s) to effectively create music: Derision from townsfolk, lack of impetus, stage fright.

Highlight song(s): "Flooding Secretions"

Even a glowing endorsement from Tenebrous Kate on the outstanding podcast Bad Books for Bad People (www.badbooksbadpeople.com/) didn't prepare me for how much fun I'd have watching this movie. While direction and acting are top notch, most impressive is the take on death metal: filmmakers Laatio & Vidgren get plenty of laughs out of…

Released the same year as (in fact, within a week of) John Frankenheimer's PROPHECY, Arthur Hiller's NIGHTWING is also an outdoorsy environmental revenge horror movie JAWS knock-off where an Italian actor playing a rebellious, hotheaded Native American teams up with a skinny woman and a scientist-type played by an actor from the OMEN franchise to stop a series of animal attacks. What sets NIGHTWING apart is that its swarm of bubonic plague-carrying killer bats is manifested by the ghost of…