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 […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Devil’s Tomb’: It’s not Satan, but it’s pretty close
I can tell that I’m getting old because I got a late start on celebrating Henry Rollins Day this year, and so this review is more than a week late to mark the holiday proper, but since I’ve been a fan for something like 30 years back when Beavis and Butthead said he looked like […]
The Last Drive-In | Heartbreak Trailer Park
As always, T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) is responsible for the art! At the Heartbreak Trailer Park, you get it all … and you don’t even have to spend any of the estimated $13.29 billion that folks dump into the economy for Valentine’s Day. Well, that is, UNLESS your Shudder subscription ended up needing to […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Carnivorous’: New widower draws crummy pictures with voodoo Sharpie to unleash serpent of vengeance
This week, I checked out a rapper-fighting-a-giant-snake flick, and no … it was not Anaconda or any of its four sequels. But before I get into the flick I watched, let’s process something. The 1997 flick starring J.Lo (then known by her Christian name of Jennifer Lopez), Ice Cube, Angelina Jolie’s dad (who, as all […]