Next Level Horror, Exploitation and Cult Discussion
By Eli LaChance Toho took Hollywood to school on long-running franchise movies with a fraction of the budget. After a long year of Blockbuster duds, Godzilla Minus One proves the problem isn't inherent to franchises or genre, it's Hollywood's cookie-cutter approach. https://youtu.be/d79dUsPZKL0 Credit: Toho With Godzilla Minus One, writer/director Takashi Yamazaki delivers a deeply emotional... Continue Reading →
By Eli LaChance If I might borrow from the bard to tempt you, “hell is empty and all the devils are here,” and by here, I mean writer David Pepose(SAVAGE AVENGERS, SPENCER & LOCKE) and artist Alex Cormac’s(BREATH OF SHADOWS, SEA OF SORROWS) new comic The Devil that Wears my Face, due October 4th from... Continue Reading →
Every good deal begins with a handshake. Talk to Me, the new A24 distributed indie from the land down under, seeks to provide gothic horror for the 21st century. And while the first act mostly delivers on the marketing promise, we don't spend long in the film's clutches before it becomes clear that YouTube's RackaRacka creators turned directors, Danny Philippou and Michael Philippou, are working with a more timeless metaphor.
What does it mean to have a body, and what does it mean to be mortal? How do we factor sense pleasures into a bodily experience that is unpredictable, into a body that will eventually wither and that will invariably experience agony? What do we do when we find out that dignity is an illusion that only holds if circumstance and luck hold as well?
By Eli LaChance Maniac Harry isn't the scariest thing in NYC It’s impossible to discuss Elliott Kalan & Andrea Mutti’s new Aftershock horror comic, Maniac of New York, without mentioning the film that inspired it. Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan begins with panning shots of New York City in decay. The goal... Continue Reading →
By Charles Evans There exists a form of received wisdom in popular culture which can be deadly for a work of art or entertainment. Essentially, if enough people decide in advance that something is true, it becomes the de facto truth, and little can be done until a reevaluation occurs. If one occurs at all.... Continue Reading →
While ostensibly a monster film, it is equally a revenge film and an action film. And I guess a hopping turdman film, which also makes it the only example of that I can think of.
These are films that I saw for the first time in 2020, not necessarily new films.
So listen, babies, when I tell you my truth: the Return of the Living Dead Soundtrack changed my life.
Ask any two horror fans why they’re fans in the first place expecting similar answers, and I think you’re in for some disappointment. We come to horror for as many different reasons as there are fans in the first place. But if you’ll forgive my armchair psychologizing, I think that all horror fans are, at... Continue Reading →
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