Marion (Anne Heche) is longing to get married to her boyfriend Sam (Viggo Mortensen), but neither of them have the money. She sees her opportunity when her boss gives her a boatload of money to deposit in the bank, and instead she runs away with it. She winds up at the Bates motel, run byContinue reading “‘Psycho’ 1998: Why???”
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‘The Bat’: Dreamboat Vincent Price and Badass Women–Supermurgitroid!
Cornelia (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery writer living with her maid Lizzie (Lenita Lane). The two are menaced by what appears to be the killer known as The Bat. Unbeknownst to Cornelia there is a large sum of money hidden in her house, and the killer is now coming after it. The aspect of theContinue reading “‘The Bat’: Dreamboat Vincent Price and Badass Women–Supermurgitroid!”
‘Motel Hell’: Wacky and Fun
Down at the Motel Hello (the o being burned out, hence the title), Farmer Vincent (Rory Calhoun) and his sister Ida (Nancy Parsons) make sausage. They also kidnap travelers, plant them in the ground, and later grind them up for said sausage. After all, “It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters.”Continue reading “‘Motel Hell’: Wacky and Fun”
Roger Corman’s ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’: Needs More Homoeroticism and Less Whininess
Not to be confused with the 1986 remake—this is the 1960 original. Seymour (Jonathan Haze) works in a Skid Row flower shop, trying to make ends meet. Among his other problems, he lives with his hypochondriac mother (Myrtle Vail), his boss Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles) is mean, and his crush Audrey (Jackie Joseph) doesn’t noticeContinue reading “Roger Corman’s ‘The Little Shop of Horrors’: Needs More Homoeroticism and Less Whininess”
‘Jeepers Creepers’: Eerie, Yet Ludicrous
Darry (Justin Long) and his sister Trish (Gina Philips) are driving home from college when they’re menaced by a guy driving a big truck. They later see the same guy dump what looks to be a body in a drainpipe. Darry has the brilliant idea of looking to see what’s down there. He finds aContinue reading “‘Jeepers Creepers’: Eerie, Yet Ludicrous”
‘Hannibal’: Anything’s Better Than the Book it’s Based On
Hannibal picks up a few years after The Silence of the Lambs left off. Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore replaces Jodie Foster) is in trouble with the FBI over a drug bust gone wrong. Her career has basically been a disappointment, since she never managed to get ahead; she’s still being held back because she’s aContinue reading “‘Hannibal’: Anything’s Better Than the Book it’s Based On”
1989’s ‘Far from Home’ is Cheesy and Predictable, but I Kinda Like it
Joleen (Drew Barrymore) is a fourteen-year-old on a road trip with her father Charlie (Matt Frewer). They run out of gas in a small town in Nevada, where fuel is hard to come by. So they temporarily set up shop in a trailer park. Joleen, eager to meet boys, runs across Jimmy (Andras Jones), theContinue reading “1989’s ‘Far from Home’ is Cheesy and Predictable, but I Kinda Like it”
Kasi Lemmons’s ‘The Caveman’s Valentine’ is Gorgeous and Intense
Romulus (Samuel L. Jackson), also known as the Caveman, is a homeless schizophrenic man. In another life he was a brilliant concert pianist, but he now lives in a cave in Central Park. After coming across a dead body, he decides it’s the work of his phantom enemy Steiberson, and vows to solve the case.Continue reading “Kasi Lemmons’s ‘The Caveman’s Valentine’ is Gorgeous and Intense”
1959’s ‘A Bucket of Blood’ Contains Neither Blood nor Buckets but is Still a Good Time
Directed by Roger Corman. Walter (Dick Miller) is a busboy at a beatnik coffeehouse with aspirations of doing something more. After accidentally killing a cat, he turns it into a sculpture and makes a splash (splatter?) in the art world. Unfortunately staying popular involves making more art, and Walter finds himself growing increasingly more vicious.Continue reading “1959’s ‘A Bucket of Blood’ Contains Neither Blood nor Buckets but is Still a Good Time”
‘The Abominable Dr. Phibes’ is an Utter Classic
Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) is a man so rocked by his wife passing away on the operating table (being horribly disfigured in a car wreck doesn’t help matters) he decides to kill the eight doctors and one nurse who couldn’t save her, with nine of the ten Biblical plagues: boils, bats, frogs, blood, hail, rats,Continue reading “‘The Abominable Dr. Phibes’ is an Utter Classic”
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