Author: VHS Tracking
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Detour (1945)
Detour (1945) always seemed like the ultimate example of film noir to me on account of the mythos around it; that it wasn’t a big studio picture, that it was low budget and shot quickly, and that its lead star would later in life would be involved in Hollywood true crime gossip (was it an… Read.
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Trash Classics: Miami Connection
Trash Classics: Miami Connection (1987)Sunday 10 November, 2019Luna Leederville After the success of screening the ‘best worst movie’ Troll 2 recently, VHS Tracking and Luna Cinemas continue their series of Trash Classics, little known films that are “so bad, they’re good” (and stand alongside Luna Cinema’s favourite, The Room)! This time the genre is martial… Read.
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Color Out Of Space (2019)
The final film I saw at this year’s MonsterFest was Color Out Of Space (2019), which I was very keen to see as a new adaptation of the HP Lovecraft story by cult director Richard Stanley (Hardware), his first film in many years after being booted off the 1996 flop, Island Of Dr Moreau. More… Read.
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Bliss (2019)
Joe Begos had two films as a director in this year’s MonsterFest and Bliss (2019) was made before VFW on a low budget, shot on 16mm, and exorcising the director’s own creative funk through the horror genre. Focusing on a painter (Dora Madison Burge, from Friday Night Lights) in a career slump who decides to… Read.
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VFW (2019)
One Friday night, I went to a 9:15pm screening of VFW (2019) as part of MonsterFest, but it felt more like a midnight movie. Completely in the spirit of John Carpenter’s Assault On Precinct 13 right from the opening credits, particularly with the ominous synth of Steve Moore’s excellent score, it’s a splatter siege movie… Read.
