Ben Nagy reviews ‘Guns Akimbo’: Guy famous for playing ‘Weird Al’ teams up with ‘Mayhem’ star for bulletpalooza
The Battle Royale flick gets John Wick-ified (Wick-eded?) AND live-streamed in Guns Akimbo, except the protagonist isn’t a stylish bringer of death who drives a muscle car and whose mere name incurs fear and trepidation among folks cause his dog got killed. Well, one of em isn’t. Nope. Here it’s Harry Potter. Or rather, Daniel […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Hell Baby’: ‘Reno 911’ clan merges ‘It’s Alive’ with ’Rosemary’s Baby’
You know, if the folks who did The Omen back in the 1970s had the mindset of folks today, they could have had themselves a stealth Satanic franchise linking two of the three greatest Catholic horror flicks ever made had they tacked on one tiny scene, maybe two lines of dialogue, at the front of […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘The Dead Hate the Living!’: Turn-o-the-century Italian horror homage went straight to video
There’s kind of a weird Twilight Zone from the mid-1990s to the introduction of Blu-ray/advent of streaming where there’d be a bunch of flicks that would go straight to video and be only available at video stores either through VHS or later, direct to DVD. At this time, cable TV was starting to morph into […]
Ben Nagy reviews ’13 Slays Till X-mas’: Barflies tell holiday horror vignettes, then get swatted
As this year’s holiday review, I checked out 13 Slays Till Christmas, an anthology of a bunch of short films preceded by a fake trailer, all Christmas-related. Unlike the second feature shown by JB and Darcy on the Ghoultide Get-Together, this one took the conventional anthology route with a framing story and then a vignette and […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Abominable’: He’s done Bigfoot (figuratively), now here’s a Yeti flick from 2020
Not gonna get into what the difference is between the Yeti and Bigfoot is because I really had a tough time explaining to my wife that you can’t just go calling Sasquatch the Abominable Snowman a year or two back. And then she forgets that and then about every three months or so I have […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Till Death’: Megan Fox sets new Guinness Book speed record for uncuffing herself from her dead husband
There is something to be said about properly resolving a dispute with your significant other. Sometimes it’s as simple as going into a different room for a while to calm down. Sometimes you just have to stay in the same room and talk it out. Sometimes you have to leave the house so you can […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Cold Prey’: It’s Norway’s answer to ‘Wolf Creek’
It’s pretty gray up there in Scandinavia, so there’s plenty of time up there for writers and directors to think up bizarre and nasty things to creep folks out. A word of advice: Don’t sleep on Norwegian horror flicks. A few of them have received some notoriety in the U.S. Probably the best-known example would […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Night Claws’: From the director of ‘Sledgehammer’ comes dark, wilderness terror
As the saying goes, we’re not quite out of the woods yet … cause there’s one more Bigfoot/woods flick I wanted to check out. But first, a digression. If you’re of a certain age like me and grew up watching a lot of cable TV in the 1980s, there was one Italian flick that mashed […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Interviewing Monsters and Bigfoot’: Smell the Canada in Missour-a!
One of the best reality survival shows that ever existed was called Survivorman and I loved watching it when it was on the Discovery Channel in the mid-2000s. Basically this Canadian guy in a bandana named Les Stroud would go out into remote places all over the world in survival scenarios for a number of […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Blackwoods’: Things that make you go Uwe
In the early 2000s, you needed only seven letters to strike fear in the hearts of genre flick lovers (and critics). U-W-E B-O-L-L. Not to be confused with the former first-round NBA pick and legendary Dallas Maverick center Uwe Blab, this is the confrontational German who put out what was widely regarded by critics back […]