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Ten Little Santas
In the spirit of the season, I watched my VHS of Edmond Purdom's 1984 UK slasher Don't Open Till Christmas.A killer targeting men dressed as Santa terrorizes London during the holiday season.Damn this...
View ArticleShort of the Week #47: Treevenge
Merry Christmas everyone! You know it wouldn't be the holidays around here without posting Jason Eisener's seminal short film, Treevenge. Have a great one kiddies.
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Auld Lang Zzzzzzz
To usher in 2019, I watched my VHS of Norman J. Warren's 1987 holiday horror Bloody New Year.When a group of teens get stranded on a island, they realize they may not be alone.Yeah, there's no way...
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2018 Wrap-up
Hey all! Let me just start off by saying thank you to all those that have stopped by over the last eleven years. Though this humble blog was mainly meant for me to a) wax nostalgic about the VHS age...
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2018 Shorts
Hello again. Now I know yesterday I said I was done with Best of lists, but short films have become such a big part of my life in the last few years that I would be remiss not to showcase the ones that...
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HNY 2019!
Happy New Year folks! No preview post, but just stopping in to say you can expect the same kind of frequency this year with the usual emphasis on short films and old VHS titles.I am also expecting to...
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Lucio's Eyes.
This week, I decided to start out 2019 with some Lucio Fulci and my VHS of his 1977 giallo, The Psychic.When a vision leads her to a body inside the walls of her husband's former home, Virginia...
View ArticleShort of the Week #49: Mouse
Every so often while screening shorts, I come across a title that makes me say, “I can't wait to watch this with an audience just to watch them squirm.” Logan George& Celine Held's 2017 short Mouse...
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Totally Worth it!
This week's VHS is Nick Kazan's 1993 erotic thriller Dream Lover.After successful architect Ray (James Spader) falls in love with the seemingly perfect Lena (Mädchen Amick), he begins to suspect she...
View ArticleShort of the Week #50: Human Cattle
This week's short film is some down home exploitation called Human Cattle brought to you by the boys at The Butcher Shop.Based out of Hamilton, Ontario, The Butcher Shop has been providing top notch...
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Hex Fest 2019
This year's edition of the Hexploitation Film Festival announced its lineup yesterday via the Rue Morgue website. This February 21-23, Hamilton's premiere genre festival will be showcasing seven...
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The Highway Is Mine!
This week's VHS is Bruce R. Cook's 1989 horror Nightwish.Four undergrads and their professor get more than they bargained for while searching for paranormal activity at an old mansion. I remember...
View ArticleShort of the Week #51: Special Day
This week's short is one of my faves from last year in Teal Greyhavens'Special Day.I love everything about this piece. Greyhavens cut his teeth in the filmmaking biz with several documentaries, but in...
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ZZZombie Lake
While having a conversation about Jean Rollin (as one does) last weekend, I realized that I hadn't yet watched my Wizard VHS of his 1981 flick Zombie Lake. This has since been rectified.A group of...
View ArticleShort of the Week #52: Boniato
This week's short film is one of my faves from 2015 in Eric Mainade, Andres & Diego Meza-Valdes'Boniato.Though its length is a bit cumbersome, I really love the world building in this short, as...
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Potatoes
This week's VHS is Jackie Kong's 1983 monster movie The Being.A mutated creature born of nuclear waste terrorizes a sleepy Idaho town.Sadly, there were only a handful of women directing genre films...
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R.I.P. Dick Miller 1928-2019
I was very sad to hear about the passing of prolific actor Dick Miller a few days ago. He was 90.R.I.P. Dick Miller 1928-2019.As someone who grew up watching genre movies, Miller was perhaps one of the...
View ArticleShort of the Week #53: The Adder's Bite
Digging back to 2010, here's a short that has always confounded me in Firas Momami's The Adder's Bite.I haven't a lick of an idea of how the bookends of this piece relate to the nightmarish images of...
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