AFTER THE PANDEMIC *** USA 2022 Dir: Richard Lowry. 84 mins Medical developments in the last few years were bound to produce a film with so blatant a title. Richard Lowry and crew have done this by making simple small stories that some will not like. After The Pandemic (2022) isn’t about a pandemic with melting people eating the living although that is hinted at in the story. Judging from some of the other reviews of this work that idea has zoomed over the heads of some. The film world is full of those stories as we all know making…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
CHILDREN OF SIN ** USA 2022 Dir: Christopher Wesley Moore. 95 mins Having been part of panel discussions at Conventions and chatting with people I know I have long ago said that Horror film plots are becoming crime films. Is this wrong to do after all Science fiction has done it for years? When an issue like conversion therapy is used as a theme and you stitch on a slasher motif, you get a two-headed monster. CHILDREN OF SIN (2022) is a duel cranium beast that sets up real-life horrors only to morph into a silly spectacle of cliches and…
GLASSHOUSE *** South Africa 2021 Dir: Kelsey Egan. 97 mins The film is often a product of the society it is produced from. GLASSHOUSE (2021) comes from South Africa, which has undergone a seismic change in the last forty-plus years. The subtle film with the emphasis on slow burn style and story brings the idea of truth, self and identity with the horrid notion that we are all replaceable. GLASSHOUSE (2021) is not a post-apocalyptic zombie plague film, which is refreshing as that genre has been done to undeath. The story is simple, you have a family all superbly played…
ALL THE KIND STRANGERS *** USA 1974 Dir: Burt Kennedy. 75 mins Made for Television movies were a new outlet during the seventies long before streaming services. In many ways, they were a throwback to early television that featured such ground break series as Hallmark Hall of fame, Philco Playhouse and the famous Playhouse 90. The difference was that these were live broadcasts in most cases and on limited sets. ALL THE KIND STRANGERS (1974) flows on the small screen as likely ‘movie of the week’. The film opens with a black top highway and twangy acoustic music theme sung…
ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS *** USA 1957 Dir: Roger Corman. 62 mins No this is not a film on sexual diseases or etiquette at a seafood restaurant. This is a Roger Corman opus as only he could produce in those halcyon days of the late fifties. The Drive-in culture flourished in North America, rock and roll was unruly and people just wanted to get out and find their ‘thrill on Blueberry Hill”. Atomic testing and experiments gave birth to new monsters and mayhem on the silver screen. Why not a bunch of psychic giant crabs that kill a research…