Ben Nagy reviews ‘Wicked Witches’: Rural Getaway Gets Guy Targeted by a Man-Eating Coven
Flick goes big on gore, but an over-reliance on dream sequences and a lack of garbonzas hold this one down An Irish bloke whose marriage has gone south rents a room from an old acquaintance but then finds out that he’s been targeted by a sinister coven in Wicked Witches. Mark (Duncan Casey) is the guy […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Cry Havoc’: Bronzi Fights a Mass Murderer Wearing a Barbed-Wire Halo
The latest chapter in the Bronsploitation cycle of films by Rene Perez has Robert Bronzi fighting paramilitary doofuses and a saw-sword-wielding killer to save his daughter in “Cry Havoc.”
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Don’t Look’: Chainsaws, Hooks, Hicks and Hacked-Up People
This flick has a misstep in its opening (and maybe in its title, too), but makes up for it as it goes along Hey, I’m back doing some more reviews after what was an amazing second season of The Last Drive-In where practically ALL of the second features got four stars. Hope you missed me. If […]
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 9 — Hellbound: Hellraiser II
The last double-feature of Season Two-o of The Last Drive-In started out with another trip into Clive Barker’s vision of Hell with those Cenobites (pinheaded and otherwise) tormenting some more folks in Hellbound: Hellraiser II.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 9 — Hell Comes to Frogtown
Season Two-o finishes in Frogtown, where a wrestling icon’s whangdoodle holds the key to repopulation and a whole buncha mean amphibians want to shorten his life and something else.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Dice Clay, Tweed, Piper in a Thriller? Sign Us Up
An unheralded thriller from the 1990s, “No Contest” starred Shannon Tweed, who did kung fu for this one, comedian Andrew Dice Clay, who took folks hostage, and Robert Davi, who did the Robert Davi thing.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 8 — Scare Package and Hogzilla
Joe Bob graced our screens in the usual spots and INSIDE the movies, including the unforgivable betrayal of a world premiere showing of “Hogzilla” and Darcy doing the Drive-In Totals.
Last Call Blog | Retro Review: Remember the First Time Joe Bob Acted?
Joe Bob’s feature-film de-butt actually got cut. The full story is in the long out-of-print “Joe Bob Goes Back to the Drive-In,” but he was still stinging from being chopped out of “Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2” when he reviewed it.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 7 — Mayhem
We had brutality in an office setting, a “beef” between Joe Bob and a director and Mayhem to boot. For attendees to The Last Drive-In, it’s just Week 7.
Last Call Blog | The Last Drive-In | Season Two-o, Week 7 — Tetsuo: The Iron Man
When metal supersedes flesh and the industrial consumes the organic, what next but global destruction? Tetsuo is so metal it turned Ernie into a metal fetishist.