Mother (Amy Adams) is a stay-at-home mom who used to be a cutting-edge artist. Her clueless husband, Husband (Scoot McNairy) is sort of helpful around the house, but is often on business trips, so Mother is alone with their two-year-old, Son (Arleigh Snowden/Emmett Snowden). Mother is abashed that she spends her days cleaning up pooContinue reading “‘Nightbitch’ is a Revelation”
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Robert Englund’s ‘976-EVIL’: A Kinda Creepy ’80s movie with Just the Right Amount of Cheese
Directed by Robert Englund. Hoax (Stephen Geoffreys) is a nerdy teen whose obsessively religious mother (Sandy Dennis) babies him. His rebellious (but protective) cousin Spike (Patrick O’Bryan) discovers a hotline that delivers a “horrorscope”—couplets that generally urge people to do bad things, such as when Spike is told to steal a pair of gloves heContinue reading “Robert Englund’s ‘976-EVIL’: A Kinda Creepy ’80s movie with Just the Right Amount of Cheese”
Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film–The Title Says it All
Documentary of American horror movies. It features interviews with horror fixtures Larry Cohen, Joe Dante, John Carpenter, Darren Lynn Bousman, Mick Garris, Tom McLaughlin, George A, Romero, Brian Yuzna, and Roger Corman. Starting in 1910 with Thomas Edison’s adaptation of Frankenstein, it ponders the many meaningful themes explored in horror movies, like the nature ofContinue reading “Nightmares in Red, White and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film–The Title Says it All”
Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’: A Bloody Fairy Tale
Written and directed by Clive Barker, adapted from his story. Boone (Craig Sheffer) is a seemingly nice guy who during a therapy session with his psychiatrist Dr. Decker (David Cronenberg) finds out that while under hypnosis he confessed to killing fifteen people. Boone flees to the mythical town of Midian, where the monsters live andContinue reading “Clive Barker’s ‘Nightbreed’: A Bloody Fairy Tale”
‘Night Train to Terror’: Without Hyperbole, One of the Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen
God (Ferdy Mayne) and Satan (Tony Giorgio) are on a train, debating over the souls of three people: Harry (John Phillip Law), who winds up in a mental hospital where the doctors use him in their plot to harvest and sell body parts; Gretta (Marideth Haze), a struggling musician who makes pornographic movies for YoungmeyerContinue reading “‘Night Train to Terror’: Without Hyperbole, One of the Worst Movies I’ve Ever Seen”
‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1990: Do it for Barbara! And Tony Todd!
Remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 film, this time in color with a contemporary twist or two. Makeup man Tom Savini takes the director’s seat, with Romero writing the screenplay. It keeps the same basic plot and characters: a band of humans with higher than average survival skills board themselves up in a farmhouse (unfortunatelyContinue reading “‘Night of the Living Dead’ 1990: Do it for Barbara! And Tony Todd!”
‘Nightmare Man’ is a Hot Mess
Ellen (Blythe Metz) has just bought a fertility mask, hoping it will put some spice in her marriage to Bill (Luciano Szafir). Unfortunately, it just brings her bad dreams—so bad that she has to take medication and eventually needs to go to a mental hospital. On the way there, Ellen and Bill’s car runs outContinue reading “‘Nightmare Man’ is a Hot Mess”
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