Badi (1983?)
It’s probably some kind of sickness on my part, but I can’t stop watching rip-offs of E.T. the Extraterrestrial (1982). Maybe it’s the inherent futility of trying to remake the magic of movie that really shouldn’t have worked in the first place, or maybe it’s that any E.T. rip-off is declaring the fact that […]
Read More...
The Zombie Diaries (2006)
Britain. Now, give or take a few years. A mysterious virus begins to spread around the world. Though very little is known about the symptoms of the virus or its origins, various governments issue quarantines and proclamations about the seriousness of the epidemic. The 24-hour news channels take to the streets of England, asking the […]
Read More...
Terror Beneath the Sea (1966)
In the 1960’s the influence of the James Bond films were inescapable. They were making so much money that it seemed like every film studio around the world wanted to get in on the action with their own international man of mystery. When the good people at the Japanese studio Toei decided to try their […]
Read More...
Primeval (2007)
Primeval is a movie that doesn’t quite know what it’s supposed to be. On one hand it’s a killer crocodile movie. On the other hand it’s a political thriller. It probably isn’t as good at being either as it should be.
The dual nature of the movie is established in the first scene, where an American […]
Read More...
Lovecraft Shorts: “The Outsider,” “My Necronomicon,” and “The Music of Erich Zann”
Three shorts from The H. P. Lovecraft Collection Vol. 3: Out of Mind:
The Outsider (1994, by Aaron Vanek) takes a bit of the opening narration from the opening of Lovecraft’s story of the same name along with the final image from that story and melds it with one of the hoariest of the EC Comics […]
Read More...
American Zombie (2007)
As the zombie movie goes through every possible iteration known to man – no doubt egged on by the public’s inexhaustible appetite for films in the genre – it was inevitable that a zombie documentary would arrive. Well, okay; despite the fact that this is fast becoming a dirty word at film festivals, it is […]