Ben Nagy reviews ‘Crawler’: Snake alien with arms facepalms Maryland people to death
In his 60 years here on this planet, Baltimore-area director Don Dohler also had his eyes on the stars. The filmmaker ignored budgetary and regional limitations and ended up producing 14 flicks in addition to directing 11 of em — mostly science fiction and monster flicks — including Alien Factor, Alien Factor 2 and Nightbeast […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Asher’: Assassinating ain’t easy when you get older
A lot of people aren’t going to have the attention span for a hired killer movie like Asher anymore because the John Wicks of the world have had their say on that kind of movie and made it more about the progressively complex fight choreography and shoot-n-boot and onto the next victim. (Nobody with Bob […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 9: Alligator and Grizzly
If you’re an avid watcher of The Last Drive-In, you know that when animals go bad, they can go really bad. There’s just something primal and terrifying about being out in the middle of the woods, tundra, ocean, prairie, taiga, archipelago, mountains and running into something that lives there that doesn’t take too kindly to […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Storm Warning’:  Tourists run afoul of backwoods redneck pot-growers — but it’s Australia, so it’s different
Storm Warning is a 2007 flick done by a director who rose to horror fame for a spell at the turn of the century with a lot of stuff from the 1970s. Got that? Jamie Blanks directed Urban Legend and Valentine, two of the more memorable installments in the late 1990s “Hey, slashers are cool […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 8: Mad God and Perfect Blue
New ground was broken, bulldozed, nuked, dragged to hell and then launched into space when we experienced the first Animation Night on The Last Drive-In. Not that we don’t see anything new or learn something EVERY TIME the lights outside the trailer turn on, Joe Bob settles in the lawn chair or recliner and we […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 7: The Dark Night of the Scarecrow and Beyond the Door III
The rural horror double feature of last week’s holiday visit to the Last Drive-In nearly had two four-star flicks. One had been unlikely sourced from the dusty realm of early 1980s broadcast TV, yet still retained a surprising air of menace and some outstanding performances even under the constraints of the more strict standards and […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘American Zombieland’: Looking for Woody? This is the wrong place. Looking for ‘Fat Ass Zombies?’ Bingo!
Sometimes in film marketing the easiest way to get an eyeball or two on the flick is just to name (or rename) something really close to a popular release and this trawling’ll get some people who aren’t looking too closely caught in the net. The Italians really got that down to a science in the […]
The Last Drive-In | Season 5, Week 6: Sharknado and Amsterdamned
A double dose of water-related horror flicks brought us back from a halftime break at the trailer in Grapevine and it was about time. We also were graced with a special appearance from the father of the six-flick (so far) Sharknado franchise, Anthony Ferrante, and another flick that had a kick-butt and memorable closing theme […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Clownado’: Evil clowns get sucked up in storm and slaughter folks in the Midwest
First an announcement: If you’re a filmmaker and you haven’t submitted your flick to the World Drive-In Movie Festival, the deadline’s in about three weeks (July 14th). I did a video explaining everything to everyone that you can find here: Full details about the WDIMF are here. Don’t wait much longer to start shooting your […]
The Last Drive-In | Season Five, Week 5 and 5.5: The Mutilator, Possession and The Walkin Dead: Dead City special
To catch everybody up with the goings-on out at the Grapevine trailer, aka Last Drive-In Central, right before the resumption of the regularly scheduled festivities on Shudder, let me first remind everyone that tickets for the third annual Joe Bob’s Jamboree are available for purchase and have been since right after the mid-season break. It’s […]