JEEPERS CREEPERS! TV FEATURES
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Originally aired: October 10, 1973 on ABC Directed by: John Newland Starring: Kim Darby, Jim Hutton, William Demarest For many of us who grew up watching horror on the boob tube, “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark” remains a cherished memory. Kim Darby plays the frumpy, serious and presumably [...]
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Amanda Reyes
JEEPERS CREEPERS! TV FEATURES
A RETROSPECTIVE ON CLASSIC MADE FOR TV HALLOWEEN HORROR MOVIES (1970-1980)! Picture it – October, 1970. You’re a latch key kid not yet of age for the grindhouse circuit but old enough to appreciate the horrors of the night. The world still had eight years before John Carpenter would unleash his timeless classic, “Halloween…”
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Amanda Reyes
WEATHER MAN
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 101 minutes |
IN THEATERS! If you’re going to see this based on Paramount’s marketing spiel that it’s a comedy, be warned. “The Weather Man” is definitely a darker film than you’ve been led to believe. There are laughs, but they’re the uncomfortable kind, resulting from seeing a diminished human being getting diminished even more…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE OLD NEGRO SPACE PROGRAM
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 10 minutes |
Andy Bobrow, taking the route Ken Burns never touched, unearths the Old Negro Space Program, which according to his satirical mind, seized hold of the United States in the ‘60s, only to face a massive media blackout enacted by an angry government that didn’t like attention being veered away from its own space program…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Rory L. Aronsky
THE CRAZY DAVE TAPE 2 (DVD)
Time to break out the guns and cocaine…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Eric Campos
CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH BOX SET (DVD)
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
The “Class Of Nuke ‘Em High” franchise is somewhat of a legend over at Troma. It never caught on quite as well as “The Toxic Avenger” but for Troma the “Class” trilogy is an impressively high watermark. This 3 DVD box set is a celebration of one of Troma’s greatest achievements…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Christopher Curry
BLOODSUCKING REDNECK VAMPIRES (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
An easily exasperated vampiress plans to enslave the small rural community of Backwash by turning its hillbilly citizens into an army of the undead…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Fred Beldin
HIGH TENSION (DVD)
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 85 minutes |
Two college friends Marie and Alex head off to Alex’s fathers farm while on vacation. There’s a bit of friction between the two girls. Nothing major, but it’s not helped by the fact that Marie just had a dream where she was running in the woods soaked in blood while being chased by pure malevolence…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Jeremy Knox
THE GREAT AMERICAN SNUFF FILM
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Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
If you enjoy exploitation and grindhouse cinema, then you should note that this is a product of that culture. It’s more extreme than those films and a lot more realistic, though, which makes it hell to sit through…
Posted on October 30, 2005 by Doug Brunell
DEATH IN HOLLYWOOD / WHEN THE APPLAUSE DIED (DVD)
Three hours of dead Hollywood people!
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Eric Campos
GHOST STORIES – SEMESTER 1: FRESHMAN FRIGHTS (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 75 minutes |
When it came time to adapt “Gakkou no Kaidan,” an anime about ghost hunting kids, into the English language, ADV and English language director Stephen Foster, decided to do something a little differently…
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Daulton Dickey
SAW II
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 93 minutes |
IN THEATERS! “Saw 2” manages to avoid some of the problems of its predecessor, while at the same time introducing a few new ones. Writer/director Darren Lynn Bousman and writer Leigh Whannell have amped up the gore and thrown even more twists at us to keep things off kilter…
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Pete Vonder Haar
THE DEVIL’S REJECTS (DVD)
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 100 minutes |
If “House of 1000 Corpses” was channeling “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” then “Devil’s Rejects” owes a lot to “Last House on The Left”. When Otis and Baby kidnap two couples and have a little fun with them, I was reminded many times of Krug and company…
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Jeremy Knox
FRIGHTMARE (DVD)
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  Year Released: 1982 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
“Frightmare” follows a group of movie buffs belonging to “The Horror Film Society” as they mourn the recent death of their favorite silver screen star Conrad Radzoff…
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Christopher Curry
EXHUMED (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
Writer/director Brian Clement takes a pretty puncturing stab at making a successful horror anthology film…
Posted on October 29, 2005 by Michael Ferraro