Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Village in the Woods’: Aspiring pub owners meet Druidic cabal looking for lunch
A couple decide that theyโre going to reopen this inherited shuttered inn/pub called The Harbour in the latest woods flick weโre checking out, aptly titled The Village in the Woods because the action occurs in a village and itโs in the woods. But the woods do not play that much of a role in this […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Backcountry’: Some days you get away from the bear, and some days the bear gets you
Two unprepared young people in love meet a mean bear, which ruins their camping trip, in 2014’s “Backcountry.”
Ben Nagy reviews โLost Gully Roadโ: 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 โ 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 theyโre not normally intended and leaves aโfalling. […]
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 โCrawlerโ: 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 โ mostly science fiction and monster flicks โ including Alien Factor, Alien Factor 2 and Nightbeast […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Asher’: Assassinating ainโt easy when you get older
A lot of people arenโt 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. Thereโs 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 doesnโt take too kindly to […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Storm Warning’: ย Tourists run afoul of backwoods redneck pot-growers โ but itโs 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 โHey, 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 donโt 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 weekโs 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 […]
