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 […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Bloody Summer Camp’: Get a bunch of counselors, throw em in a cabin, kill, repeat
Summer’s starting, classes are finit-o, teachers can kick up their heels and not cry as much in the evenings five days a week and parents now have to meet the great challenge of finding places where they can dump off their kids so they can continue to work while school’s out. The big questions for […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Six: The Monster Club and Hellbender
Art by T.J. Denton @TDenton_1138 on Twitter. As we start down the hill toward the conclusion of Season 4, we got a rant for the ages and a rave to die for. And that was just during the first feature. Long-timers on the Patreon would know that Joe Bob did The Monster Club in his […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Five: Slaughterhouse and Tenebrae
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138) on Twitter. We officially hit the halfway point in the fourth season of The Last Drive-In with “Junk Food Night,” a double-feature celebration of animal processing, hot dogs (neither of which are Darcy’s favorite topic by any stretch) and giallo-colored mustard. The first flick was Slaughterhouse, a throwback late-stage slasher […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Four: The Nosfera-two-fer
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) There were a ton of firsts going on as we all got together and celebrated the 100th anniversary of F.W Murnau’s Nosferatu. It was the first time an original flick and then a remake were played back-to-back on the Last Drive-In. It was the first time we got […]
The Last Drive-In: Season Four, Week Three: The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane and Housebound
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138) on Twitter. A lesser show would have gone with the expected. We’re talking the low-hanging fruit that a bullfrog with one leg in a cast could still jump up and get — it’s Friday the 13th, so let’s play a couple flicks that happen in Crystal Lake, N.Y., where some […]