Ben Nagy reviews ‘VelociPastor’: Priest Uses Dino-Powers to Chomp Crime, Pierce Pimp & Gnaw Ninjas
In a filmic landscape that has spawned Toxic Avengers, Sharknados and multiple attacks by killer tomatoes, among others, it’s a tough order to come up with a concept that’s intentionally campy yet unique enough that it can potentially accumulate its own cult. So writer-director Brendan Steere did his best to find the sweet spot with VelociPastor, featuring a priest named Doug Jones (Gregory James Cohan), who gains the power to morph into a dinosaur to mete out holy and bloody vengeance.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Terrortory’: Who knew that west-central Maryland was so spooky?
Terrortory is a five-story anthology horror flick by Kangaskahn Films that establishes a creepy bit of folklore in the west-central region of Maryland.
LAST CALL Film School | Score
They shoot, they score, Mutants win
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Kill or Be Killed’: What’s offing these outlaws?
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Texas filmmakers Duane Graves and Justin Meeks deserve about 12 bags of loot stolen from a train’s worth of credit in making their nasty Western outlaw flick Kill or Be Killed.
LAST CALL Film School | The Close-Up
We’re ready for our close-up, Mr. Briggs
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Doom Room’: Don’t let the rhyming title fool you, this is serious stuff
Doom Room, despite the rhyming title and the appearance of being a Saw or Hostel-type torture fest, has higher things in mind and an existential mystery at its core. Plus the three B’s.
LAST CALL Film School | POV
This week, it’s the shot that launched a thousand drive-in flicks. Not countin them private boudoir films you got hidin in your closet.
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Greystone Park’: Three people go into an abandoned asylum, one has a camera — what could go wrong?
Greyston Park’s setting is creepy enough, but the restrictions of the found-footage format get in the way of some interesting ideas that could have been expanded.
LAST CALL Film School
A multi-week crash course through the films of The Last Drive-In. You might just learn somethin.
Ben Nagy reviews “Family Possessions”: You Never Know What Dead Grandmas Are Up To
Family Possessions builds up potential as both a haunted house flick and as a slasher mystery, but despite its buildup, the flick can’t quite get the payoff audiences are looking for.