Wait- there’s new footage in Alfred Hitchcock’s influential shocker- Psycho? As it turns out when Psycho came out in 1960 these few seconds were in the film. It’s only when the film was later re-issued in theaters and eventually released…
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It does pain me to see Halloween irrevocably neutered by the pandemic. But that doesn’t mean we should give up scary movies. If anything, horror films have a way of being cathartic during trying times. Talk about getting you out…
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I’ve written about inanimate objects that kill in movies, but those were about possessed machinery and killer furniture. While I was lying in bed the other night counting corpses, I began to think of all the weirder items that have…
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They don’t call it “fall” for nothing. Thank God at least for home media which gives you respite from the madness. This month is there is great mix of classics like Picnic to rancid rarities like Massacre in Dinosaur Valley.…
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One Christmas I received the best present ever- the actual Jason mask prop from one of the films. John Waters had somehow gotten it for me but there was a glitch in the delivery and somewhere along the line it…
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A young couple vacationing in a tropical paradise find themselves in a living, waking nightmare from director Darren Lynn Bousman (who directed several of the Saw movies and knows how to sadistically tighten the noose on poor unfortunates). Luke Hemsworth…
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I am overjoyed the NY Film Festival persevered this year, despite the odds. And they did so with their usual intelligence and humor (the festival poster by John Waters was a great, funny touch). Their film choices were even more…
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Lately, not surprisingly, I’ve been thinking a lot about paranoia. But in movies, not in crackpot political conspiracy theories. It takes me back to a batch of movies that were permeated with a dark strain of pessimistic dread. I mentioned…
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Keegan Allen (King Cobra) plays Cole, a good-looking, arrogant, internet vlogger, who has built a 10-year international fan base watching his goofy antics traveling the globe, taking crazy risks, and always looking for the next thrill. The original title…
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More insanity on Blu-ray this month- from early body-horror from director David Cronenberg; sublime Bob Hope horror comedies; a little known black comedy starring Roddy McDowall and Tuesday Weld; an exquisite indie film from Bette Gordon; a new feature from…
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