Ben Nagy reviews ‘Thunderbolt Fist’: Hero and cousin fight extortionists exploiting the local ginseng industry
One of the toughest kind of flicks to review is the kung fu flick and thatโs because Bruce Lee went and wrecked the curve back in 1973 when he did Enter the Dragon. It was such a cultural touchstone that a cottage industry even sprouted up in the mid- to late 1970s of just movies […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Absurd’: 40 years ago, Joe Bob reviewed the original, but he never got around to the sequel
Two score years and four or so ex-wives ago, Joe Bob Briggs brought forth upon the city of Dallas, a new column, conceived at one of the finest drive-in theaters in Dallas or Tarrant County, and dedicated to the oath that we believe in the three Bโs, will party like jungle animals and then boogie […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘House’ and ‘Uninvited’: A shameless attempt to get along with the cat people in the new year
Before I get into how my movie selections ruined New Yearโs Eve, I have to set the stage. At least two people in my house are CAT PEOPLE. We are not talking about Nastassja Kinski and Malcolm McDowell, so I donโt have to worry about any kind of transformations where they get all fired up, […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘House of Salem’: U.K. Satanists into sickles, sheep and sensory deprivation (not necessarily in that order)
Thereโs no way I can top Joe Bobโs rant about Satanism and the Devil that he unleashed when The Last Drive-In showed House of the Devil during Season Uno, so Iโm just going to leave this link right here (courtesy of our good friends at Shudder) so that everybody can refresh their memories about how […]
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Anna and the Apocalypse’: Romantic teen-zombie-musical from U.K. oozes charm and guts
A superflu pandemic that started in the U.S. ends up resurrecting the dead and a plucky group of high schoolers who have a tendency to bust out into song tries to cope with their rotten and stinky new world in Anna and the Apocalypse. This flick takes place in Great Britain because the steering wheelโs […]
Ben Nagy reviews “Night of the Demon”: We Bag a Great One as Our Annual Search Concludes
It has the pacing, soundtrack and docu-feel of a 1970s made-for-TV movie or Charles B. Pierceโs two classics The Town That Dreaded Sundown and The Legend of Boggy Creek, but just a couple minutes into Night of the Demon after a guy gets his arm torn off at the shoulder and staggers around clutching some […]
Ben Nagy reviews โThe Big Fโ: Single, White-Haired Missing Link, Recently Freed From Cellar, Looking for Mate
An unconventional-looking Bigfoot is trying to find the perfect love match in the suburbs on Valentine’s Day in the 2016 flick “The Big F.”
Ben Nagy reviews ‘Suburban Sasquatch’: If You Are Ready to Challenge Your Beliefs in Bigfoot, Only a Select Few Can Stand It
The next two flicks Iโm looking at as our Bigfoot Month lumbers on to a chilly conclusion take the big guy out of his natural habitat. Yep, Sasquatch sometimes is compelled to take a hike from the peace and idyllic tranquility of his forested bower because he needs to remind himself why he stays away […]
Ben Nagy reviews โBigfoot vs. Zombiesโ: Shorty Sasquatch rumbles with reanimated corpses
The second foray into our now-annual Bigfoot flick quest this year coincidentally finds us looking eastward again in the NewYork-avania area (judging by the license plates on the vehicles) for the big, stinky, hairy hulk of a creature except this time heโs hanging out in the woods outside a (fictional) body farm in Wyoming County, […]
Ben Nagy Reviews ‘Monstrous’: If You Wanna Get Technical, the REAL Monstrous Thing Here is a Lack of Bigfoot
By real popular demand, we’re doing the Second Annual Hunt for the Best Bigfoot Movie and the first flick up is 2020โs โMonstrous.”
