The Last Drive-In | Season 6, Week 1 — Tribute to Roger Corman “Bucket of Blood” and “Deathstalker”
Drive-in legend Roger Corman was live from the West Wind Drive-In at last year’s Jamboree.
‘The Package’: Stone Cold tries to deliver; Dolph pontificates on food
I haven’t written a review for a while. I didn’t write any snow-horror flick reviews in January. I was incommunicado during Kung Fu-bruary, even with the extra Leap Day. I watched a flick (I have witnesses), but then didn’t get around to writing a review to celebrate Henry Rollins Day. Now we’re more than half-way […]
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob’s Very Violent Valentine
Art by T.J. Denton (@TDenton_1138 on Twitter) — visit his store! Not wanting to bury the lede, we begin with the closing credits for this epic evening of sex and violence. For what I believe is the first time, Diana Prince was listed as an “Associate Producer.” This was only appropriate as this truly was […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Splinter’: Weird spiky monster corners people in gas station, but it’s not made out of wood
When you start digging way deep into the ground, you never know what’s going to come up. Usually this is the case at those weird research facilities nestled back in that secluded acreage that the online overhead map view shows to be undeveloped natural land. Could be the government, the military or just your run-of-the-mill […]
The Last Drive-In | Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas special
I think we can all agree that the first word that comes to mind when one thinks of the Mutant Family is “sophisticated,” followed soon by “urbane” and then “posh.” This explains why this year’s Last Drive-In holiday special, “Joe Bob’s Creepy Christmas,” began with a camera panning over books in a library, the music […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Peggy’: Long after high school, woman seeks vengeance against ex-classmates
We return from our annual foray into the woods (I got lost for a week) and check out the wild environment that is life once the 10-year high school class reunion has passed in this week’s flick, Peggy. Directed by Michigan-based filmmaker Brandon Guiles and produced by his Gallows Film Productions, it was one of […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Exists’: Vehicular slaughter of juvenile Sasquatch leads to poor campout experience
We can’t do a round of woods flicks without getting the tall creature with the oversized tarsals involved, so to close out this month’s reviews, we’re due for a Bigfoot flick. The number of flicks featuring Sasquatch I’ve looked at is well into the double digits, and we set forth the minimum requirements for a […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Animal’: Genetically mutated wildebeest/wolf/bear/boar hybrid makes people hole up in a cabin in the woods
As our annual month in the woods flicks winds down for another annum, Animal, a 2014 flick by director Brett Simmons (You Might Be the Killer), found its way onto the Screening Room’s screen and from the jump, it REALLY aspired to be a John Carpenter flick. They even used the same opening credits font […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Village in the Woods’: Aspiring pub owners meet Druidic cabal looking for lunch
A couple decide that they’re going to reopen this inherited shuttered inn/pub called The Harbour in the latest woods flick we’re checking out, aptly titled The Village in the Woods because the action occurs in a village and it’s in the woods. But the woods do not play that much of a role in this […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Backcountry’: Some days you get away from the bear, and some days the bear gets you
Two unprepared young people in love meet a mean bear, which ruins their camping trip, in 2014’s “Backcountry.”
