Grindhouse Nostalgia: Myth and Reality
Everyone, it seems, loves grindhouse cinema
CHRISTINE
One of John Carpenter’s all-around best films, a darkly comedic haunted car chiller that’s dated extremely well.
THE CHANGELING
I’m not a huge fan of haunted house movies, but this one is pretty good.
THE CARRIER
A far weirder-than-average eighties horror fest with a shadowy monster, a deadly epidemic and a large-scale feud
CARNE DE TU CARNE
Politically minded Columbian horror pivoting on incest and vampirism
CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST
This hugely controversial exploitation epic is easily the best of the Italian cannibal movies of the late seventies and early eighties. It’s also one of the most repellant, disturbing and morally repugnant films ever made
The Undying Horror of the Refrigerator!
In the lexicon of household appliances the refrigerator is King Kong and Godzilla put together
Tony Scott is Dead
What is there to say about Tony Scott? My word would be reliable.
All About THE THING
The saga of what is now commonly known as THE THING has a 70-plus year history that, not unlike the unstoppable shape-shifting “Thing” itself
CALIGULA
CALIGULA is of course the legendary Penthouse-financed historical porno epic, a one-of-a-kind debacle with a background as outrageous as the film itself