Mad Mutts in Movies
I’m not what you call a dog person. I don’t own a dog, nor do I feel much warmth in my heart when I see one scampering down the streets at the end of a leash. I’ve always harbored the…
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Author Archive: Dennis Dermody
Cruel Britannia
I have a real fondness for British horror movies…everything from Hammer Studios to Amicus to Pete Walker’s disturbing shockers to the gory fun of films from Tigon and Norman J. Warren. But the mouth-watering new collection of “Three Killer Thrillers…
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Batshit Blu-rays of the Month- 11 for September
This month’s treasure trove of Blu-ray treats includes- a psycho Johnny Cash; a rude, hilarious Todd Solondz dark comedy; a rare Italian-TV thriller starring the stunning Edwige Fenech; a haunting Andrew Haig film starring Andrew Scott (Ripley); an incendiary Peter…
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Gregg Araki’s Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Gregg Araki is one of the truly great queer maverick directors. His brilliant, thrillingly transgressive, teen apocalypse trilogy is given the classy Criterion treatment this month on Blu-ray. But don’t be fooled- each film is like having an incendiary device…
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Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts
For rabid fans of Italian director and master of the macabre- Dario Argento’s Deep Cuts, out now on Blu-ray from Severin, is a 4-disc set and a treasure trove of mouth-watering rarities and cinematic lunacy. From his successful 1972 RAI…
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More Movies I’m Too Scared To See
As I inch closer and closer to an open grave, I find myself compiling lists of movies I’ve always wanted to see, and then trying to track them down. On the other hand, I keep stumbling across titles that make…
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The Doll
I am slowly going through my bucket list of films I have always wanted to see, for one reason or another. And one high on the list was The Doll (1962), a Swedish film I saw ads in the newspaper…
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Cuckoo
Cuckoo is writer/director Tilman Singer’s appropriately titled, defiantly bizarre, enjoyably unhinged horror film. An unhappy teenage girl- 17-year-old Gretchen (scrappy, sensational Hunter Schafer), is begrudgingly uprooted from America and forced to move with her architect father (Marton Csokas) to a…
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Batshit Blu-rays of the Month- 15 for August
What a month of crackpot Blu-ray treats! A deluxe box set of Reptilicus; the first feature-length 3-D movie; two deliriously deranged Hong Kong Category III films; a new action film from John Woo; a sensational vampire movie from the directors…
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Sebastian
A smart, sexy and soulful portrait of Max (Ruaridh Mollica), a good-looking young writer working for a magazine and living in London. He also secretly sidelines as a sex worker, chronicling each sordid encounter as chapters in a proposed novel. …
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