Ben Nagy reviews ‘Lost Gully Road’: Woman fleeing ex shacks up with a ghost in a cabin in the woods
Welcome to the wildest part of the year where we celebrate flicks that take place out in nature — usually in the woods. Communing is optional, yet highly encouraged. There will be special guest appearances by big hairy monsters, the gratuitous use of outdoor implements for things that they’re not normally intended and leaves a’falling. […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘CarousHELL 3’: Duke the Unicorn fights a maniacal bunny as trilogy achieves closure
Homicidal unicorn Duke returns to battle vicious killer rabbit reanimating corpses. Eyepatch pizza guy joins the chaotic sequel filled with stabbings, beheadings, and unicorn-rabbit combat.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Crawler’: Snake alien with arms facepalms Maryland people to death
In his 60 years here on this planet, Baltimore-area director Don Dohler also had his eyes on the stars. The filmmaker ignored budgetary and regional limitations and ended up producing 14 flicks in addition to directing 11 of em — mostly science fiction and monster flicks — including Alien Factor, Alien Factor 2 and Nightbeast […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Asher’: Assassinating ain’t easy when you get older
A lot of people aren’t going to have the attention span for a hired killer movie like Asher anymore because the John Wicks of the world have had their say on that kind of movie and made it more about the progressively complex fight choreography and shoot-n-boot and onto the next victim. (Nobody with Bob […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 9: Alligator and Grizzly
If you’re an avid watcher of The Last Drive-In, you know that when animals go bad, they can go really bad. There’s just something primal and terrifying about being out in the middle of the woods, tundra, ocean, prairie, taiga, archipelago, mountains and running into something that lives there that doesn’t take too kindly to […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Storm Warning’: Tourists run afoul of backwoods redneck pot-growers — but it’s Australia, so it’s different
Storm Warning is a 2007 flick done by a director who rose to horror fame for a spell at the turn of the century with a lot of stuff from the 1970s. Got that? Jamie Blanks directed Urban Legend and Valentine, two of the more memorable installments in the late 1990s “Hey, slashers are cool […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 8: Mad God and Perfect Blue
New ground was broken, bulldozed, nuked, dragged to hell and then launched into space when we experienced the first Animation Night on The Last Drive-In. Not that we don’t see anything new or learn something EVERY TIME the lights outside the trailer turn on, Joe Bob settles in the lawn chair or recliner and we […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 7: The Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Beyond the Door III
The rural horror double feature of last week’s holiday visit to the Last Drive-In nearly had two four-star flicks. One had been unlikely sourced from the dusty realm of early 1980s broadcast TV, yet still retained a surprising air of menace and some outstanding performances even under the constraints of the more strict standards and […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Zombieland’: Looking for Woody? This is the wrong place. Looking for ‘Fat Ass Zombies?’ Bingo!
Sometimes in film marketing the easiest way to get an eyeball or two on the flick is just to name (or rename) something really close to a popular release and this trawling’ll get some people who aren’t looking too closely caught in the net. The Italians really got that down to a science in the […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 6: Sharknado and Amsterdamned
A double dose of water-related horror flicks brought us back from a halftime break at the trailer in Grapevine and it was about time. We also were graced with a special appearance from the father of the six-flick (so far) Sharknado franchise, Anthony Ferrante, and another flick that had a kick-butt and memorable closing theme […]
