Look up any discussion on the news that Rob Zombie was going to helm a new feature length movie based on the beloved classic TV series The Munsters and you’re going to find a wild array of opinions (mostly negative) before the first trailer even appeared online. For those of us with no strong expectations one way or the other, we could only wait to actually see what the director of House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and most […]

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Written and directed by Fred Dekker (Monster Squad) in his feature film debut, Night of the Creeps is in a lot of ways like a horror version of the horny-nerd-makes-good trope that was, for good or bad, in all sorts of movies in the 80’s. These horny teenage comedies have been reassessed recently, and for good reason. But this is no Breakfast Club or Weird Science. Night of the Creeps lacks the cynicism of a typical 80s horror flick, and […]

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Directed by Barbet Schroeder from a script by Don Roos, Single White Female is a curious thriller that explores borderline personality in a way that definitely hasn’t aged very well. But despite this rather strange insensitivity to mental illness, the film is quite gripping, and the tension is always high. In short, I had fun in spite of myself. The movie opens with a little girl, maybe eight years old or so, looking into a mirror. Only it’s not a […]

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This 1988 debut feature from Terence Davies cannot be summed up neatly. Yet I will try, if only because I absolutely want you to see this, if you haven’t. There are essentially two ways you can describe Distant Voices, Still Lives, which depicts the lives of a working-class English Catholic family over two distinct periods of their shared lives. The first one would be to call the movie a musical that will likely captivate people who claim to dislike musicals. […]

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Loaded with ample amounts of gore, nudity, and bold idiots making terrible decisions, Torso (also known as Carnal Violence) will be a dream for giallo fans. Its influence on that specific genre is clear in the present. In terms of appreciating it as a classic of its type, I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. Torso has plenty of violence. It certainly has enough personal touches from director/co-writer Sergio Martino to make it distinctive from the very long list of giallo […]

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When he passed away in 2013 at the age of 95, Ted Post left behind one of the most prolific, varied bodies of work any filmmaker could ask for. He kept particularly busy in television, directing dozens and dozens of episodes of some of the most popular TV shows of all time from 1950 to 1999. In 1973 alone, he directed three feature films. One was the pretty good Dirty Harry sequel Magnum Force. The other was The Harrad Experiment, […]

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Despite a not-terrible showing with 2007’s Mother of Tears, which completed Dario Argento’s long-standing Three Mothers Trilogy, it doesn’t seem likely that Argento will ever see the creative heights of his glory days. That would be okay, except that the decline has been going on since the late 80s. Some would say even earlier than that. Are we here to bury Argento, one of the greatest horror film directors of all time? Certainly not. It’s just difficult to not think […]

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Forget stepping on a Lego. The 1987 gore-comedy (kind of?)-slasher epic Doom Asylum has an entirely special kind of foot pain, which you will certainly feel as intensely as the poor character in the film does. Doom Asylum isn’t for everyone. You can probably figure that out with the handy trailer for Arrow Video’s recent 2K restoration and Blu-ray release. If you have strong feelings about the Return of the Living Dead series maintaining solid quality through at least two […]

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If Mean Streets is still your favorite Martin Scorsese movie of all time, then you’ll probably love Street Mobster. The 1972 debut from Kinji Fukasaku presents Yakuza violence so fluid and relentless, you wind up as far from desensitized as possible. On the contrary, Street Mobster wraps you up quite nicely in the delirium and savagery of its characters. It starts out bleak, it gets about as bloody as any cinematic Yakuza crime story made up to that point, and […]

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The recent, incredible box set from Arrow Video, known simply as The Complete Sartana, stands just fine on its own. Still, the history of the spaghetti western is so vast and fascinating, particularly in terms of volume, you can’t help but want to provide some background. There is a compelling history to be found in the filmmaking style that gave way to the five films in this new Arrow Video boxset. History specific to this series is made available in […]

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For a number of years, South Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has found a lot of material to mine from the absurdity of human existence. Since 1996’s The Day a Pig Fell into the Well, he has directed a little more than two dozen shorts and features. Many of those films’ screenplays were written by him, as well. While he has become one of the most fascinating South Korean filmmakers in recent memory, his work remains somewhat unknown to western audiences. […]

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Although Marvel’s Cinematic Universe is generally seen as being bigger and better than DC’s, there’s no denying that DC are whooping Marvel’s ass on the animation front. And the magnificent new anime film Batman Ninja is testament to that. If you’ve read any of the Batman manga, you’ll know that he’s a character perfectly suited to the Japanese art style. So needless to say, Batman Ninja is an absolute visual delight. The main bulk of the picture employs a stunning […]

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Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon is a fun movie with a fun concept. I’d go so far as to say it’s one of, if not the best meta horror film I’ve ever seen. Directed in 2006 by Scott Glosserman from a script he co-wrote with David J. Stieve, the film examines somewhat tired slasher tropes in an enjoyable, comedic fashion while also serving as a love letter to the genre. The actors really carry the film, and […]

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Don't worry, Joss Whedon isn't in the special features either.

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