The Last Drive-In | Season Three-o, Week Eight-o: Sledgehammer and Things
Do not adjust your tracking (actually you should) — Joe Bob had VHS Night on The Last Drive-In. (Art by T.J. Denton @TDenton_1138 on Twitter) The shortest episode of this season of The Last Drive-In was the one that may have tested the constitutions, attention spans, eyeballs and, verily, the souls of Mutants everywhere the most. […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Mr. Hush’: Bad driving leads to worse karma
A man of many costumes stalks Holland Price (Brad Loree) with the intent of making him suffer for something his grandfather did long ago.
Ben Nagy reviews Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe’s Annabel Lee brings the writer’s poem to modern times as a painter stumbles upon a coastal mystery.
Ben Nagy reviews Clinton Road ’til he cain’t no more
Yeah, I’m gonna glue my eyeballs to the old Clinton RoadI’m gonna watch ’til I can’t no more Ice-T plays an exposition-delivering night club owner and we get six clueless people wandering around the woods near where this guy’s wife disappeared in a quest for the dreaded “closure” for himself and his missing wife’s sister […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Dolls’: Once these toys get possessed, it’s hard to play with em
My daughter (she’s in second grade) went through a period where she was terrified of killer dolls, and it didn’t help that her older brother was talking up the Child’s Play flicks and The Con-juring (I spell it like that because that’s how he pronounced it, no editorializing intended) to increase her terror. She got […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Midnight Runner’: Senioritis is contagious … and violent
The new kid in the neighborhood with a violent past struggles to fit in with everyone else in Midnight Runner, a movie that’s reminiscent of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, with a synthesizer-fueled soundtrack but a lot younger cast. Ian (Ben Weinswig) had an incident six years ago that landed him in juvenile detention – his […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Landing Lake’: Can anybody fly around here?
A group of four accented Euro antenna repair folks traipse out into the wilderness in a van on an assignment to fix some sort of messed-up satellite repeater device in an unidentified location in Landing Lake. If you like long walks in the woods, men from around the United Kingdom shouting profanity in various accents […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Dark Within’: Cabin Freakouts and Skull Invaders
You’d feel the same if they were trying to make an interdimensional portal out of you.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Wretch’: Don’t Smoke That Stuff in the Woods
It becomes you or you become it,. Or maybe it’s the other way around?
Ben Nagy Plunges into ‘Backwoods’: Trussed Cheerleader Fights Lumpy-Headed Creep
A high-school cheerleader gets abducted and tries to survive an encounter with a lumpy-headed creep who lives in a shack in the middle of the wilderness in “Backwoods.”
