Author: Ben Nagy

Ben Nagy has written and edited stuff for newspapers, magazines and websites and randomly showed up on the doorstep of Joe Bob’s booth in Kentucky one day after a commute from Cleveburg. After watching Joe Bob present “Motel Hell” on MonsterVision in college in 1996, Ben knew he’d make it through. To submit a flick to review or send hate mail or lewd messages, email nagybj@gmail.com, go through Joe Bob's site contact form or find him hanging out at most of the usual JBB social media haunts.

Ben Nagy reviews ‘ShriekShow’: Anthology Features a Bunch of Clowning in the Woods

Director Brad Twigg, the guy behind Killer Campout about the slasherguy who makes his deadly axe out of street signs (see the review here)and who’s working on getting the finishing touches completed for Killer Campout 2, emailed me over the summer telling me that he had a flick he wanted me to check out. And while it’s taken […]

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 […]

The Last Drive-In | Halloween Hootenanny, Pt. 2

Lifetime movie villians, Joe Bob’s cable TV career regrets and the world champion Mutant.

The Last Drive-In | Slasher Life Lessons, Pt. 4

A Nightmare on Elm Street Our esteemed Queen of the Last Call Blog, Laura Beerman, has been ruthlessly assailed by work this past week — think about the mob scene that happens to Willem Dafoe at the end of Antichristand you know what I’m talking about — so she asked me to pinch hit to let […]