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 →

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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)

Now available on VOD

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. 

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