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 ‘Time Loop’: If You Could Turn Back Time, Like an Hour, Would it Be Worth it?
There’s that whole saying about a person being ahead of their time, which isn’t such a rousing compliment when you REALLY think about it. Anyone who is saying that about somebody else is looking back into the past from the present. Usually they are also nodding their head sadly because whoever this ahead-of-their-time genius is, […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘All Your Friends are Dead’: Campout Reunion Saves a Life, Loses a Bunch of Others
Ricky Glore, a standup comedian by trade, decided he was going to make the first “middle-aged slasher flick,” so he pulled together about $6,000, wrote a script and then went on to star AND co-direct it with Nicholas Hiance. Not necessarily in that order. The result, All Your Friends are Dead, is scheduled to make […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Fall of Usher’: Hubbie-winning director gets all Poe-tic on us
The one sure trait that can be used to identify the truly great writers is the flexibility of their work to be understood and adapted by the skilled and the unskilled alike. Great writing is like one of those six-cylinder Mopar engines from the early 1970s. You could be driving down the road going about […]
The official 2022 Joe Bob’s Jamboree Wrap-Up Post as Composed by the Guy at the Merch Table
Before we get to the good stuff: If you had the Saturday photo opportunity with Joe Bob at the drive-in, follow this link to download your picture. If you had the Sunday photo opportunity with Joe Bob and Darcy at the drive-in, follow this link to download your picture. ALSO: Buy a 2022 Jamboree shirt! […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Wolves’: Lonely Teen Wolf Just Looking for a Place to Call Home
Eight or so years ago, writer/director David Hayter tried to do for lycanthropy what the Twilight series did for vampires in this week’s flick, Wolves. Our troubled romantic lead, a senior high school quarterback named Cayden Slaughter (Lucas Till) starts punching through this smack-talking opponent’s helmet after a late hit during a game, so he […]
The Last Drive-In: Season 4, Week 10: Uncle Sam and Nightbreed
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) In conjunction with the Fourth of July holiday, the latest season of the Last Drive-In went out with a bang similar to the one that put the producers of Uncle Sam on the front page of the local paper where the flick was filmed because its climactic explosive […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Beast’: Long-Term Family Land Investment Harbors a Monstrous Curse
You can be really smart, but also be genetically pre-disposed to stink at real estate. This is one of the premises of this week’s flick, the somewhat awkwardly titled American Beast, which deals with a creature created after a dispute between two Indigenous tribes about a century and a half before the establishment of the […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week 9: Head of the Family and Habit
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) Sad and happy. Dark and light. Big and little. East Coast and West Coast. “Indie” and studio. Slimy tongue boobie licking and aardvarking against a NYC monument. Surely never has a more stark listing in contrasts been compiled in the annals of American film analysis before now, and […]
Last Call blog: The Last Drive-In — Season 4, Weeks 7 & 8: Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker, The Baby, The Stepfather and The Freakmaker
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) Sorry for the absence of a Last Call blog post last week. Very few words could do justice to the experience of Arrested Development Week when we got to see one of Big Steve King’s Top Five faves (circa 1984) and the, um, unique experience that was The […]