Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Virus’: A Pandemic Disaster, Japanese-style
Japan’s Toho Studios did its version of a big-budget Irwin Allen-type disaster flick with 1980’s “Virus: Day of Resurrection” in which Earth is hit by an epidemic, an earthquake AND nuked. 1970s and 1980s drive-in stars abound in this one.
Last Call | Retro Review: In These Times, Jersey Zombie Flick ‘Biohazardous’ Speaks to Us
In this review originally syndicated on May 15, 2002, Joe Bob takes a look at the explosion of zombie flicks in the years since Night of the Living Dead and a New Jersey-based flick called “Biohazardous.”
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Night Sitter’: Shady Baby Sitter and Co. Run Afoul of Child-Killin Witches
We’ve got another baby sitter in peril in The Night Sitter. But this one’s different because she’s being menaced by witches, is kind of a criminal and runs around with the wrong crowd. Call her the anti-Jamie Lee Curtis.
Last Call | Retro Review: So Here’s What U.S.-Soviet Relations Were Like 35 Years Ago (And ‘Ghoulies’ Too!)
Joe Bob Briggs gives his first impression of a new era of U.S.-Soviet relations and he reviews a Gremlins ripoff that has a title that sounds like Goonies.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Clown Fear’: So This is What a Psycho Clown Society Looks Like
Clown Fear calls back to the 1960s gore shocker 2,000 Maniacs, but instead of hillbilly rednecks doing the murdering, it’s a bunch of folks in facepaint who couldn’t cut it at the circus.
LAST CALL | Retro Review: Joe Bob takes on ‘Basket Case 2’
A retro Joe Bob review from March 2, 1990, takes a look at “Basket Case 2,” where we find out what Belial and his brother Duane have been doing since they hit the pavement at the end of the 1982 drive-in classic.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Sitter’: Cat-sitting nightmare becomes a Satanic trap
Charlotte (Aisling Knight), a college student studying psychology, is offered a pretty obscene amount of money (200 pounds a night – roughly $258 U.S.) to stay three nights in a big house out in the woods because these codgers are going to take a long weekend and they don’t want to leave their cat or their house alone in writer/director Simon Richardson’s Satanic shocker.
LAST CALL | Retro Review: Joe Bob Checks Out ‘Nightbreed’
Yep — the 1990s were 30 years ago, and while we await the start of Season Two-o of the Last Drive-In, we’re going to dust off some Joe Bob retro reviews. First up, the kinkiest man in England (Clive Barker) collaborates with the kinkiest man in Canada (David Cronenberg) for “Nightbreed.”
Ben Nagy reviews ‘I Dared You! Truth or Dare 5’: A Chainsaw Victim Fights an Angry Orderly
I Dared You! Truth or Dare 5 is a sequel to a mid-1980s slasher where a kid who got hacked in the head with a chainsaw dons a half-mask and exacts bloody vengeance.
LAST CALL Film School | Black and White
What filmmakers do in the shadows