Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Barn’: Three Halloween Demons Gather Meat for the Devil and Terrorize a Rural Community
Plus after you get done reading all these words, there’s a treat at the end! Hey everybody — as you all know, we’re getting closer to peak Spooky Season 2021 here with JBB’s surprise special featuring a couple of early episodes of The Walking Dead, and with Halloween just a day away, the content of […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Babysitter Massacre’: Buckeye State gets its own flick featuring kiddie caretaker carnage
As has been already documented in numerous places by folks in equal measures more eloquent and more verbose than I, there is no profession more prone to suffering in the annals of horror flicks than the much maligned and mutilated babysitter. We’ve checked out a couple sitter-in-peril flicks previously with The Night Sitter and The […]
The Last Drive-In | Halloween Hoedown
A pun for the ages, two modern horror heavyweights with their hands on Halloween and a bunch of creatively carved pumpkins. The Hoedown defied expectations and rang in the Druidic New Year as only The Last Drive-In can.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘CarousHELL the 2nd’: Transition to fatherly role shows Duke the homicidal unicorn’s no deadbeat
Duke the homicidal unicorn has to rescue the hybrid human-unicorn son he never knew he had from the evil forces who created him in this sequel to 2016’s “CarousHELL” by Pittsburgh-area filmmaker Steve Rudzinski.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Terrortory II’: West-central Maryland ends up being spooky again in anthology sequel
Screening Room takes another journey into the Terrortory, the creepy haven for slashers and other supernatural perils in west-central Maryland in “Terrortory II,” Kevin Kangas’ follow-up to his 2016 horror anthology.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Girl on the Third Floor’: CM Punk’s do-it-yourself aspirations get demolished in haunted ex-brothel
AEW star CM Punk tries to fix up a possessed house for his pregnant wife in Girl on the Third Floor and no amount of YouTube videos or “This Old House” reruns are gonna help him.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Knucklebones’: Leave it to the Nazis to Make a Simple Dice Game Get All Demonic
Stuff goes really wrong when you add a pentagram, a weird rhyme and World War II-era “supernatural warfare” experiments done by the Nazis.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Open 24 Hours’: Psycho and Ex Collide in the All-night Beef Jerky Aisle
It’s 2 a.m. and a gas station clerk doesn’t know where her escaped homicidal ex is — a tough way to start a new job, no doubt…
All about the First Joe Bob’s Jamboree from someone who was there for most of it
All about the four-day ‘Drive-In Woodstock’ featuring How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, Mutant Fest, a live Last Drive-In and the Drive-In of Dread at the Mahoning Drive-In On the first day, the Mutants saw How Rednecks Saved Hollywood, Burt Reynolds at his peak (cause Darcy was dressed up like him) and, oh yeah, the Mahoning Drive-In […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Voodoo Apocalypse’: Uneasy Partner Cops Face Zombies in 1979 El Lay (kinda)
“Voodoo Apocalypse,” despite echoing some titles of Italian gut-munchers, is actually a comedic Spanish homage to 1970s cop flicks with some kung-fu, voodoo-fueled zombies and rock music thrown in.