Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Bait’: It Takes a Lot of Planning to Have Sharks Attack a Grocery Store

Sharks invade an Australian grocery store after an earthquake and a tsunami in “Bait,” a 2012 flick that serves as a precursor to the whole Shark-in-Weird-Ass Places genre.
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Midnight Movie’: Killer in Flick Emerges From the Screen to Slay Theatergoers

A killer comes right out of the screen with a weird implement of death as he slays both on the screen and menaces the audience in the theater in “Midnight Movie.”
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob Put a Spell on You: Tammy & the T.Rex

Two future box-office draws got their start in a thrown-together flick featuring an animatronic dinosaur with a very limited availability Nothing gets the juices flowing in preparation for that most-romantic of holidays more than a wildman weekend sweat-fest way out West in the desert, and Joe Bob got a little bit tribal in prepping for […]
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob Put a Spell on You: The Love Witch

Buckle up, hon. Billerโs Technicolor homage was one wild ride.
Ben Nagy Reviews โDreamlandโ: The Director of โPontypoolโ Does a David Lynch Flick

“Dreamland” picks up where the post-credit scene of “Pontypool” leaves off with Stephen McHattie as an assassin roaming around in the rotten-at-the-core “Dreamland.”
Ben Nagy Reviews โPontypoolโ: Communication Breakdown Leads to Great White North Massacre

A radio host and his crew broadcast the rampage of marauding infected folks in rural Ontario, Canada, in the “War of the Worlds” radio show-inspired “Pontypool” starring Stephen McHattie and Lisa Houle.
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Silent Night’: Update of Holiday Terror Classic Puts Bodies in Santa’s Bag

The most-infamous killer Santa flick got reimagined in 2012 in “Silent Night” when a killer Kringle starts slaughtering folks in a Wisconsin town on Christmas Eve.
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night 3’: No โGarbage Day,โ and Itโs Pretty Trash

The third “Silent Night, Deadly Night” flick took out the best thing about the second one by recasting the role of Ricky and adding some faces familiar to Drive-In Mutants. But was throwing a colander painted to look like an exposed brain on Bill Moseley’s head and telling him to act like a zombie a better strategy than throwing him in a Santa suit and letting him go wild?
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Enter Three Dragons’: Because Why Settle for One Bruce Lee When You Can Have Three?

Delving into the confusing realm of Brucesploitation, three Bruce Lee “clones” get embroiled in gang intrigue and a jewel heist In the spirit that there were three Magi and that the certain holiday that they were involved in is mere days away, I picked out a movie that well befits the numerics involved. Now โ […]
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob Saves Christmas: Dial Code Santa Claus

The Christmas (and commercial) spirit can’t be abated by COVID.