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The Fair Haired Child (William Malone, 2006)
Virgin Tara isn’t very popular at school or home, gets kidnapped by “warlock couple” (IMDB’s phrasing) Anton and Judith (Lori Petty from Tank Girl and Prey For Rock & Roll), and locked in basement...
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Crank/Crank 2 (2006/09, Neveldine/Taylor)
Crank Just the combo of stupid/fun I was looking for. Asshole (Jason Statham) gets injected with Speed plot device, has to keep his heart rate up while finding out who killed him, very D.O.A. It’s...
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Hors Satan (2011, Bruno Dumont)
Meditative drifter David Dewaele (a Dumont regular who died in 2013) and sad teenager with family problems (Alexandra Lemâtre of no other films) are apparently friends (I can’t shake K. Uhlich calling...
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Treasure Island (1985, Raoul Ruiz)
Ruiz made a series of films in the mid-1980’s involving sailors, pirates, children, islands, treasure and magic. There’s an explicit Treasure Island reference in Three Crowns of the Sailor (1983), and...
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Hellraiser II (1988, Tony Randel)
Some sequelly repetition here to be sure, but adding the mad doctor and the puzzle girl, then sending Kirsty and the resurrected Julia through the labyrinth with them, all great ideas. Overall made by...
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The Man They Could Not Hang (1939, Nick Grinde)
I get barely over an hour of laptop time on the flights, and don’t wanna stoop to watching Prestige Cable TV Dramas, so this box set of 65-minute Boris Karloff movies was just the ticket. Karloff plays...
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The Matrix Resurrections (2021, Lana Wachowski)
“Why use old code to do something new?” “Maybe this isn’t the story we think it is.” Extremely self-referential sequel in which Neo is a game developer whose history of reality breakdowns resurfaces...
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Mind Game (2004, Masaaki Yuasa)
Young guy dies pathetically in front of the girl he likes, flees the afterlife, rewinds time and returns to his body, manic and indestructible. The character models keep shifting, the movie throws in...
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Mill of the Stone Women (1960, Giorgio Ferroni)
Sharp costumes and production design on a gorgeous blu-ray, a nice change of pace. Ferroni made this long before Night of the Devils, but not a horror specialist, made mostly adventures and westerns in...
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