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An expecting couple heads home from their engagement party through the mountains, taking a short cut that takes them on an odd road that is seemingly never-ending.
Category Archives: Movie Reviews
He Never Left (2023)
A man on the run finds himself next door to a known slasher killer who makes him his new prey.
Crust (2024)
Have you ever wondered what happens to those socks that go missing in the dryer? Well, Crust posits an answer, and if you get queasy easily, you may just want to stop reading right there.
Bad Movie Monday: Without Warning (1980)
I’ve watched a lot, and I do mean a LOT of bad movies in the last few years, and some of these movies are so much fun and were made with such love and sincerity that I will unironically never forget them for the rest of my life. They’re almost like happy memories. They bring joy, just thinking about them. Then there’s movies like Without Warning, where I watched it about a week ago and forgot every single solitary thing about it within a day and had to re-watch the whole stupid mess again just to write this review. Yeah, it’s that kind of movie. Continue reading
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
This 1971 feature from the American International Pictures fun factory is a work at odds with itself. It wants to be campy, but it is never that funny. It wants to be a horror film, but poor direction dilutes the effectiveness of the chills. And while it succeeds as a Vincent Price vehicle, it fails to bring along the rest of the cast for the ride.
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Unnatural (2024)
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I’m a sucker for a good Western. Low budget, a lack of star-power, none of that really bothers me, so long as it hits high on the ol’ Yeehawometer. Likewise, I’m a sucker for a good vampire pic, pun only slightly intended. Mix the two, though, and you usually wind up with more Cookie’s Camp Mush than a Texas T-bone. There have been some decent genre mashups over the years, though- take 2005’s The Burrowers as a fine example. So I went into 2024’s Unnatural with my breath held, just in case I was wading into undead horse-hockey.
The Only Ones (2024)
A group of friends go on a weekend of rest and relaxation which soon turns into chaos with people dying and panic setting in.