For some reason I spent years getting this movie confused with Lake Placid, so I kept wondering when the killer alligator would show up. No such luck, this is a ghost story, through and through. Lake Mungo is a mockumentary, though I have some trouble with that term. The term 'mockumentary' has always made me think of … Continue reading Lake Mungo (2008)
Man, the '70s were weird. Exorcist II: The Heretic is not the most '70s film I've ever seen; that honor belongs to The Visitor. But this movie sure as hell is trying. I really am not sure what to make of it. It pretty much took the plot of The Exorcist and decided to give … Continue reading Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
The most racist of Poltergeists. Also, that subtitle is nowhere near as good as House II: The Second Story. I'd seen the original Poltergeist and Poltergeist III years ago, so I figured now was a good time to go back and knock out the rest of the original trilogy. All I knew going into this … Continue reading Poltergeist II: The Other Side (1986)
It is the future. Commie-Nazis run the city of New York and have plans to launch atomic bombs at things just because they can. Psychic mutants roam the sewers, while hideous humanoid beasts move across the wastelands. And every night people tune in to watch the big game, Endgame, in which hunters pursue a human … Continue reading Endgame (1983)
This is a zombie movie, though it's not your traditional zombie movie. No, this one has a bit of Chinese mysticism thrown in, some grotesque little monsters, and finishes with a boss battle that could have been straight out of Dog Soldiers or other awesome werewolf movies. And it stars a very different type of … Continue reading The Boneyard (1991)
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