SLASHENING: THE FINAL BEGINNING **** USA 2021 Dir: Brandon Bassham. 80 mins Five years after “The Slashening,” 22-year-old Madison Santangeli moves to Brooklyn to start a new life in the wake of her father’s suicide. First off, I was blown away with the poster which takes inspiration from Slumber Party…
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Jack Deth jumps back to the future in this thrilling fourth chapter in Charles Band’s immortal sci-fi action series, now fully uncut and remastered in stunning HD for the first time on DVD ($16.95) and Blu-ray ($21.95)! Special Features: Original Videozone. Full Moon Trailers. When the time-travelling TCL chamber goes haywire, perpetually surly…
WYRMWOOD: APOCALYPSE *** Australia 2021 Dir: Kiah Roache-Turner. 88 mins Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) was a feature length calling card for co-writer / director Kiah Roache-Turner, in collaboration with his brother Tristan, delivering a zombie-plague movie that stood out from the crowd with a mixture of high-octane, inventive…
MIMIC **** USA 1997 Dir: Guillermo Del Toro. 105 mins (Director’s Cut: 112 mins) Del Toro’s most straight-forward “scary movie” captures an unsettling ambience from the start, partly via Kyle Cooper’s jittery opening title sequence, echoing his design for SE7EN, a movie with which this shares an oppressively rainy…
The long-awaited sequel to the 1981 cult-movie that spawned the whole scarecrow horror sub-genre! On October 24, 1981, television audiences were terrified when they tuned into CBS to catch the premiere of Dark Night of the Scarecrow. This little made-for-TV feature developed into a cult icon and sparked an entire scarecrow-centric…