I wanted to start this off with a fun fact: I keep a monster locked in my basement. It mewls and growls, and I appease it by bringing it roadkill or whatever dead animals I can find. I don't do this out of a desire to keep it prisoner, but rather to show I love … Continue reading Antlers (2021)
Always remember, no matter how tough life can be, there isn't any kind of problem, big or small, that can't be helped by sending in a CIA hit team to kidnap someone's kid. Seriously, I use them to handle my grocery shopping. Major Vic Davis is a special forces super soldier and not the best … Continue reading The 2nd (2020)
Some movies ooze style over substance. This movie is practically gushing with it. It's the perfect representation of what was being done in 1970s horror: violent, shocking, twisted, nightmarish. It's also an incoherent mess, but that isn't exactly unusual for 1970s horror either. Lots of horror of this decade works more as a dreamscape, particularly … Continue reading Messiah of Evil (1973)
Now here is one of those slashers that drifts between bland and the potential for greatness. At times it hits every major trope and doesn't feel like much of an improvement on anything. Could it be The Prowler? Could it be Final Exam? And then it has moments of shocking brilliance that make you hurt … Continue reading The Mutilator (1985)
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