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 […]
The Last Drive-In — Season Four, Week Two: Black Sunday and Def by Temptation
With the help of copious visual aids, two great flicks and earthy Eastern European alcoholic beverages (not necessarily in that order), a movement was born outside the trailer on the second week of The Lost Drive-In as Joe Bob and Darcy initiated a movement. And what a movement it is. I think we all can […]
The Last Drive-In — Season Four, Week Uno: Night of the Living Dead and Anthropophagus
Like that human-sized cicada from The Beast Within or the grown dude that emerges very painfully from that prone lady in Xtro, we emerged from our Last Drive-in offseason dormancy, and lo and behold, lookie here, we find out that it’s been 100 flicks (give or take because math in Grapevine is different than other […]
Ben Nagy reviews “Feaster Sunday:” When It Comes to Performing, There’s a Method to the Madness
For the last Easter-related flick on this most bunny-filled holiday, filmmaker Brian Papandrea, the undisputed independent film King of Shrimp Cocktail (check out my review of The Big F during Bigfoot Month last November to know what I’m talking about), suggested I check out his holiday-themed psychological-slasher comedy horror flick that has a sharpened carrot […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter’: Son of God Learns Lucha, Saves Ottawa
After the disappointment I felt from the last flick I reviewed in which an Easter Bunny-headed killer was supposed to chain-saw people and collect eyeballs of his victims in the basket he was carrying, (if the dang DVD cover hadn’t been LYING to me), there was a gaping maw, nay, a yearning for something inside […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Easter Bunny Massacre’: Deceived by Cover Expectations, Yolk’s on Him
Do NOT judge a DVD by its cover. I’m old enough to know that, but I did it anyway, even at my advancing age. There it was, sitting on the third shelf at the local Wally World for $9.96 on the end cap. A weird bunny-headed killer WITH a chainsaw on the front of the […]