Ben Nagy reviews ‘Abominable’: He’s done Bigfoot (figuratively), now here’s a Yeti flick from 2020
Not gonna get into what the difference is between the Yeti and Bigfoot is because I really had a tough time explaining to my wife that you can’t just go calling Sasquatch the Abominable Snowman a year or two back. And then she forgets that and then about every three months or so I have […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Till Death’: Megan Fox sets new Guinness Book speed record for uncuffing herself from her dead husband
There is something to be said about properly resolving a dispute with your significant other. Sometimes it’s as simple as going into a different room for a while to calm down. Sometimes you just have to stay in the same room and talk it out. Sometimes you have to leave the house so you can […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Cold Prey’: It’s Norway’s answer to ‘Wolf Creek’
It’s pretty gray up there in Scandinavia, so there’s plenty of time up there for writers and directors to think up bizarre and nasty things to creep folks out. A word of advice: Don’t sleep on Norwegian horror flicks. A few of them have received some notoriety in the U.S. Probably the best-known example would […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Night Claws’: From the director of ‘Sledgehammer’ comes dark, wilderness terror
As the saying goes, we’re not quite out of the woods yet … cause there’s one more Bigfoot/woods flick I wanted to check out. But first, a digression. If you’re of a certain age like me and grew up watching a lot of cable TV in the 1980s, there was one Italian flick that mashed […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot’: Smell the Canada in Missour-a!
One of the best reality survival shows that ever existed was called Survivorman and I loved watching it when it was on the Discovery Channel in the mid-2000s. Basically this Canadian guy in a bandana named Les Stroud would go out into remote places all over the world in survival scenarios for a number of […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Blackwoods’: Things that make you go Uwe
In the early 2000s, you needed only seven letters to strike fear in the hearts of genre flick lovers (and critics). U-W-E B-O-L-L. Not to be confused with the former first-round NBA pick and legendary Dallas Maverick center Uwe Blab, this is the confrontational German who put out what was widely regarded by critics back […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Pyewacket’: Just cause you’re mad at Mom, don’t sic a dang demon on her
The next trip-into-the-woods flick we’re going to take a look at is Pyewacket, which doesn’t fulfill a bunch of the prior requirements I set forth last week about woods flicks, making me look like a hypocritical goof. Mostly that’s because the flick doesn’t start in the woods. Instead, we’re in the suburbs where a girl […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Trees Have Eyes’: Frolicking in the Forest and a Zombie Jubilee
What do you get when four interchangeable alpha-male types (some with facial hair) and one woman who work as bail bondspeople go into the woods? With a title like The Trees Have Eyes, you’d figure that it’d be more like Wrong Turn or, you know, The Hills Have Eyes with a bunch of hulking redneck […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Trick or Treat’: This one doesn’t have Ozzy or that guy with the bag on his head in it
This last in my triumvirate of Halloween-themed reviews ended up not quite being as Halloween-themed as the two prior (those two were Mischief Night and Trick). There are a couple appearances of trick-or-treaters, the main character has a Halloween birthday and the Grim Reaper shows up a couple of times as well in Trick or […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Trick’: It’s what comes before ‘or’ and ‘treat’
This flick, Trick, starts with a definition. You know what starts with definitions? Middle school oral reports. A lecture in front of the Kiwanis Club. Graduation speeches. The sermon at church on a weekend when the lector just doesn’t have a good one in em but still has to say something to fill the time. […]