Tag: Shudder

  • WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

    WNUF Halloween Special (2013)

    “The Demons of Demolition Derby – we’ll sell you the whole seat, but you’re only gonna need the edge.” Directed by Chris LaMartina and other collaborators, WNUF Halloween Special (2013) takes the form of a recorded piece of public access television, evidently a videotape being played as signified by  the occasional bursts of fast-forwarding that… Read.

  • Alligator (1980)

    Alligator (1980)

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    It’s difficult to know what’s more ferocious in the movie Alligator (1980): the hormone growth accelerated sewer-dwelling alligator with an insatiable appetite or the string of wise-cracks people make about Robert Forster’s male pattern baldness? Yes, Forster is sporting some fresh plugs, but give the guy a break! He plays a cop investigating body parts… Read.

  • Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)

    Scanners III: The Takeover (1991)

    When they came to the third entry in the Scanners franchise – based on David Croenenberg’s original film where a strain of people in Canada are born with psychic powers due to government experimentation in drugs given to expectant mothers – they were really having fun with the possibilities here: What if a pigeon annoyed… Read.

  • Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

    Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

    A new acting category in the Oscars should be the Best Scanners Acting Award, actors undertaking the challenge to either be the one who is scanning (using their mind to express psychic power) or who is being scanned (getting your mind overpowered by an invisible force). Both offer the chance for an actor to give… Read.

  • Messiah Of Evil (1973)

    Messiah Of Evil (1973)

    I was keen to see Messiah Of Evil (1973) as it had often been compared to Carnival Of Souls, a low-budget horror movie that I’ve come to love because of the atmosphere it creates. Like in Carnival Of Souls, a close up on a suspicious, evil person in Messiah Of Evil might reveal bad, cheap… Read.