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Movies Till Dawn: SF & F
“Black Widow” (2021, Marvel Studios) Setting aside the legal hullaballoo between Disney and star Scarlett Johansson, this long-gestating solo adventure for the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s perennial bridesmaid has a wealth of aesthetic high points but ultimately underserves the character. As … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Neon Demons)
“Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker” (1983, Code Red) Life for adopted teen Jimmy McNichol gets weird in a hurry after he’s offered a college basketball scholarship: the attentions of his aunt (the late, great Susan Tyrell) turn from overprotective to unsettlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Code Red, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment, USA
“Positive I.D.” (1987, Kino Lorber) Emotionally pulverized and withdrawn from her family after a sexual assault, Stephanie Rascoe finds a mix of release and revenge in a loophole law that allows her to assume a different identity and pursue her … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Something for Your Rattled Nerves
“The Beguiled” (1971, Kino Lorber) Wounded Union soldier Clint Eastwood attempts to play fox in the henhouse while recuperating at a private women’s school in the Deep South, but his increasingly aggressive behavior only provokes an even more disturbing response … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Hell Comes to the Saturday Morning Strange
“House By the Cemetery” (Blue Underground, 1981) Despite constant admonitions from a young girl that only he can see, towheaded Bob (Giovanni Frezza) and his parents (Catriona MacColl and Paolo Malco) not only remain in the Creepy Old New England … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Underground, Mill Creek Entertainment, Mondo Macabro, shout factory, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Dr. Evil and His Terrors of the Unknown (Halloween 2019, Part 4)
“Two Evil Eyes” (1990, Blue Underground) Dario Argento and George Romero offer broad and bloody interpretations of stories by Edgar Allan Poe: Romero’s “The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar” adds a “Creepshow“/E.C. Comics spin, with Adrienne Barbeau as … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Severin Films, shout factory
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Movies Till Dawn: Old Fears for the New Year
“Zombie” (1979, Blue Underground) Voodoo rites on a Caribbean island cause the dead to rise from their graves and consume the living. Jaw-dropping (and in its most ghastly scene, eye-popping) special effects by Giannetto de Rossi are the most memorable … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: High Tension for the Holidays 2018
“Await Further Instructions” (2018, Dark Sky Films) Fractious British family discovers that their tense holiday celebration has become more unpleasant due to an unseen force that issues increasingly violent demands through their television set. An appropriately nasty parable for nasty, … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange – A Surfeit of Strange
You could spend all of 2018 dissecting and bemoaning the strange, weird and just plain awful aspects of 2017, but on Saturday mornings, I prefer to recall the strange from that year in a entertaining, digital-based audio-visual format and not, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Kino Lorber, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (High Tension for the Holidays 2017 Edition)
“Luke Cage: The Complete First Season” (2017, Buena Vista Home Entertainment) If you grew up in the 1970s, you knew Luke Cage as Power Man, the first African-American superhero with his own comic book series. Though possessed of superhuman strength … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate, Marvel, Warner Archives Collection
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