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Short Film: Fétiche Mascotte / The Mascot (France, 1933)
After the meta-post-mod CGI extravaganza of last month's Short Film of the Month, Kung Fury, here's some (real) Old School: a pioneering masterpiece written and directed by the sadly underappreciated...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part I (1970-1977)
2 August 1939 – 30 August 2015What follows is a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. TV series are ignored.The Art of Marriage(1970, writ & dir. Sean S....
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The Wickeds (USA, 2005)
Aka The Flesh of the Living Dead. Supposedly filmed on a budget of $50,000 — so we can only ask: where did the money go?Many a year ago, way back in 2008, we reviewed a typically low budget Tiffany...
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Trailers of Promise – Films We Haven't Seen: Honeymoon of Terror (USA, 1961)
"Oh Frank, I don’t think I should get pregnant right away."Marion (Dwan Marlow)Written & Directed by Pete Perry, a.k.a. Ecstasy on Lovers Island — not to be confused with Irwin Meyer's Honeymoon...
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Das Geheimnis der gelben Narzissen (Germany/Great Britain, 1961)
(Spoilers.) Based on the original Edgar Wallace novel The Daffodil Mystery, producer Horst Wendlandt made this film as a joint production with the British production firm Omnia in London. As a result,...
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Misc. Film Fun: Three Dance Scenes
Another Thin Man (1939, dir. W.S. Van Dyke)Trailer. The third of the six Thin Man movies, which were based on the writings of Dashiell Hammett and star William Powell and Myrna Loy as the eternally...
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Short Film: A Short Vision (1956)
Written & directed by Joan Foldes and Peter Foldes; narrated by James McKechnie. To quote the BFI National Archive: "A Short Vision became one of the most influential British animated films ever...
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El Dia De La Bestia / The Day of the Beast (Spain, 1995)
Chirashi Movie Poster from Shock Cinema OK, you might not know it — particularly if you're from the US — but many countries in the world have their own version of the Oscars. Canada, for example, has...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part II (1978-1986)
2 August 1939 — 30 August 2015What follows is Part II of a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. TV series are ignored.Go here for Part I (1970-77).Stranger in Our...
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Trailers of Promise – Films We Haven't Seen: The Giant Claw (1957)
"The Giant Claw is every bit as unrepentantly bizarre as any Japanese or Korean creature film, and in exactly the same characteristic way. It is, so far as I’ve seen, the only true American kaiju."1000...
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City of Rott (Pennsylvania, 2006)
If one is to believe the imdb, this relatively plotless animated zombie gore flick was made on an estimated budget of $5,550, to which we can only conjecture that the cash was split between the...
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Short Film: Don't Hug Me I'm Scared (2011)
Sesame Street from Hell. This is the first of a series of short created by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling. It and the others in the series seem to have been rather popular on-line — regular memes, so...
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Eko Eko Azarak: Wizard of Darkness (Japan, 1995)
(Spoilers.) Another obscure movie (for Westerners) found in our DVD pile of "unknown movies", a mound of Sisyphean proportions accrued over the years that never seems to shrink no matter how many times...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part III (1987-93)
2 Aug. 1939 — 30 Aug. 2015What follows is a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. TV series are ignored. Go here for Part I (1970-77)Go here for Part II...
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Wishmaster IV: The Prophecy Fulfilled (Canada, 2002)
Roughly a year ago, we caught the firstWishmaster (1997), which we found mildly entertaining: "as a horror film it offers little new or innovative, but it is a fun and at times almost campy film that...
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Misc. Film Fun: Live Long enough to Find the Right One (France, 2006)
Remember the Rubettes? Not by name, probably, but they were an assembled British pop band that, while a one-hit wonder in the US, were more successful in Europe. Their biggest international hit is...
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Short Film: The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (USA,1916)
So here we have a truly odd fish of a public-domain film. (We couldn't resist saying that.)In the simplest of terms, The Mystery of the Leaping Fish is a silent two-reeler comedy, a burlesque, one of...
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Black Killer (Italy, 1971)
Opening Credits tothe French release:(Spoilers.) One might assume that we came to this movie by way of everyone's favorite child molester, the cult legend Klaus Kinski, but that is not exactly 100%...
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Short Film: The Living Want Me Dead (USA, 2010)
'Tis the season to be jolly.... and to spend money you don't have. But how to earn the money? Give blood? Pass bad checks? Getting a "real" job is definitely out of the question — so: How about signing...
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R.I.P.: Wesley Earl "Wes" Craven, Part IV (1994-1999)
2 August 1939 - 30 August 2015What follows is a look at some the projects he was involved in — actually and/or presumably. Most TV series are ignored.Go here for Part I (1970-77)Go here for Part II...
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