SCI-FI/FANTASY MONTH: Aliens: Zone of Silence, Coherence, The Fly ’58, and Lamb
ALIENS: ZONE OF SILENCE (2017) d: Andy Fowler. c: Sarah Hester, Peter Gesswein, Jed Maheu. A young woman (Hester) ventures into a section of Mexican desert known as the “Zone of Silence,” a UFO hotspot where her brother was last…
SLASHER MONTH: Destroyer, Final Exam, Hatchet, and Silent Madness!
DESTROYER (1988) d: Robert Kirk. c: Anthony Perkins, Deborah Foreman, Clayton Rohner, Lyle Alzado, Tobias Anderson, Lannie Garrett. A muscle-bound mass murderer (Alzado), executed 18 months earlier, seemingly comes back from the dead and stalks a group of filmmakers making…
SUNDANCE 22: Horror Movie Round-Up
FRESH d: Mimi Cave. c: Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Charlotte Le Bon, Andrea Bang. Online dating can be a drag, especially for Noa (Edgar-Jones), a bright, likable young woman who’s about to give up on romance until…
REVIEWS: Gags the Clown, Jade, The Most Dangerous Game, and Repossessed
GAGS THE CLOWN (2018) d: Adam Krause. c: Lauren Ashley Carter, Aaron Christensen, Evan Gamble, Tracy Perez. A horror-comedy that’s neither scary nor funny, this desperately wants to be both a parody of fake news and the found footage subgenre…
SLASHER Spotlight: SCREAM 1-4
SCREAM (1996) d: Wes Craven. c: Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, David Arquette, Matthew Lillard, Skeet Ulrich, Rose McGowan, Jamie Kennedy, Drew Barrymore. Scream is the movie that revived the horror genre at a time when it had stalled with endless…
REVIEWS: American Gothic, Monsieur Verdoux, and Witchfinder General
AMERICAN GOTHIC (1987) When their propeller plane is forced to make an emergency landing, a group of friends find themselves stranded on a remote island in the pacific northwest that’s home to a religious zealot (Steiger), his wife (De Carlo),…
SLASHER MONTH: Death Valley, Prom Night II, and More!
DEATH VALLEY (1982) In an era when Hollywood was trying to cash in on the slasher boom, Universal released this gem about an 8-year-old boy (Billingsley, A Christmas Story) who, while on vacation with his divorced mother (Hicks) and her…
SLASHER MONTH: Cold Prey II, New Year’s Evil, and More!
COLD PREY II (2008) Good sequel to the Norwegian original picks up immediately where the first movie left off with final girl Jannicke (Berdal) being transported to a nearby hospital, along with the body of the pick-ax swinging mountain man…
End of the Year: ANGST, EFFECTS, and GROTESQUE
Angst (1983) An artsy German slasher about an unhinged madman (Erwin Leder) who’s released from prison and immediately goes about terrorizing a family at a remote country estate. There’s way too much exposition involved in the killer’s backstory, with endless,…