I say Halloween month is a great time to watch anthology horror movies. They are like visual trick-or-treat bags filled with eye candy ranging from "Delicious!" to "Are you kidding me?" 1983's NIGHTMARES is a personal favorite that should be shoved in your face more often. Read our old-timey take HERE and watch the Momma rat goodness below…
It's finally October so let's not waste any time getting into the Halloween spirit. What better way to do so than by watching the Halloween-set GHOSTWATCH? I apologize to our readers in the UK who might find this selection to be too obvious but here in the States, this startlingly effective, not to mention ahead of its time, production is not nearly as notorious as it should be! For my money, it's one of the best ghost tales ever told! You can read our review from back in the day HERE and a traumafession HERE but I wouldn't advise it until you've checked out this landmark spookfest in three parts below!
Ghost Watch pt 1 from Encounters with Spirit on Vimeo.
Ghost Watch pt 2 from Encounters with Spirit on Vimeo.
Ghost Watch pt3 from Encounters with Spirit on Vimeo.
Today is so beautiful that it deserves a beautiful movie. How about the criminally underrated heaping pile of gorgeousness known as RAZORBACK? This wonderful slab of cinema cake is directed by RUSSELL MULCAHY which means it looks like a DURAN DURAN video except instead of SIMON LeBON and NICK RHODES you get GREGORY HARRISON and a giant killer pig! Read my full blown review HERE and watch the incredibleness unfold below! Your eyes and ears (what an excellent score!) will thank you!
In my new library/office/den/tree fort, my movie watching set up is currently exclusively VHS. Don't cry for me, I've got boxes of tapes to reacquaint myself with. Of course, number one on the playlist is SCREAMS OF A WINTER NIGHT which is pretty much the ultimate movie for grainy, washed out VCR play! Yes, I'm pushing this movie yet again! Why else do you think I was put on this planet? Check out my cob webbed covered full review HERE! And behold the murky madness below!
I'm sorry Kids! I'm so behind! I was all telling myself how I was going to do stuff today like write a post and it turned out to be a big giant lie. I'm not going to do anything today! Kindertrauma Kastle just got a beautiful new gold bar and now I'm going to sit at said bar and drink a cocktail! Do you blame me? My only worry is that one of you fine folks will not have anything to watch today. That idea kills me! That is why I'm going to suggest that you check out one of my favorites NIGHT OF THE EAGLE/BURN WITCH BURN below! If you'd like to read more about it just jump back to the old review I wrote for it once upon a time when I was less lazy HERE! Cheers!
The picture quality of this copy of DEAR DEAD DELILAH leaves something to be desired. Hey, at least it's "overexposed, scratchy horrendous" rather than "millionth generation murky ghost horrendous"! What are you gonna do? It's the only version available and chances are more than likely that it's going to stay that way. DVD companies are far too busy putting out the trillionth edition of something you already have five copies of to concern themselves with something like this! DEAR DEAD is weird, scraggly and hokey as hell. Not everybody is going to care for it. The cool thing is that if you just watch five minutes of it, you'll be able to determine whether the screechy song it's singing is for you or not. Rough as it is around the edges, JOHN (THE FURY) FARRIS' underappreciated proto-slasher does contain some spectacularly gruesome murders, not to mention an above par cast and some rather unforgettable closing credits. Watch below and for more gush-yapping, read my full review HERE!
Today is the perfect day to watch DON'T GO IN THE HOUSE! Don't be too scared to read a full review HERE!
Happy Mother's Day! Let's watch BLOOD RAGE! I know this movie takes place on Thanksgiving but that doesn't mean it's not a swell Mother's Day movie too! I'd say BLOOD RAGE (aka NIGHTMARE AT SHADOW WOODS) is a better Mother's Day movie than MOTHER"S DAY but then again, what isn't? LOUISE LASSER plays Maddie, a caring mother of two twins. One of the twins is a crazy psycho and one of them is not. One Thanksgiving the nutty twin escapes from the funny farm and blood-soaked, identity mix-up hijinks ensue. BLOOD RAGE has got to be one of the funniest slasher movies I have ever seen. It just kills me. The music is out of control, there's a ridiculous attempt at exposition using a psychiatrist's voice-over narration, the violence is slapstick hilarious and the incredible LASSER is constantly forced to fill in the gaps in the script with lunatic ad-libbing! Frankly, it's non-stop awesome. The strange thing is I don't think MARK SOPER who plays twins Todd & Terry is half bad! He kinda reminds me of ALEX McARTHUR in RAMPAGE (1987)! If you really love your mother, you will force her to watch this with you and if you really love yourself, you'll invite your evil twin along too!
Let's give Netflix Streaming the cold shoulder today on account of how it put us through the emotional wringer last week and forced me to eschew my much needed beauty sleep! Let's go visit our unreliable and fickle old pal YouTube instead! I usually don't feel entirely comfortable wrapping a post around a YouTube movie as you never know when they too will skip out on you, but today's flick is so good it has inspired me to throw caution to the wind. I also sometimes worry that if I get folks to watch something for free (!) then somebody somewhere, a bag lady perhaps, is not getting her royalty check! Karma-lamity! The thing is this one isn't on DVD anyway and my theory is if you watch it on YouTube now, you'll be happy to buy it if it ever does become available and then save that hypothetical bag lady! You can't save her if you don't know the movie exists! Yes, I'm only pretending to care!
Anyway, today's fantastic flick is called NEXT OF KIN! If you've already seen it you know what I'm talking about and if you haven't, get ready for your next favorite thing in the world. Just listen to these incredible stats! It's from Australia, it's a lady vs. awesome house tale, it's from 1982 the magical year for perfect movies, the cinematography is outstanding, it has one of the best horror scores of literally all time (Viva KLAUS SCHULZE!) and the strapping love interest is the psycho from WOLF CREEK (thumbs up JOHN JARRATT!)!!! I would not be terribly surprised if NEXT OF KIN was an influence on TI WEST's HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. It's got the same lazy stroll pace and then just when you are all warm and snuggly, it crashes your cranium with an iron frying pan. Although, allow me to say, I think NEXT OF KIN carries the superior clobber! It's a lightening bolt! It's a veritable goth-gasm! Nobody deserves to be as happy as it's sure to make you! I'll let you in on a secret. I've watched this movie a couple times now and I'm still unclear about why folks want to kill this lady. I'm not sure it matters. Now, think of a movie in your head! NEXT OF KIN is better than that movie!!! It's my favorite type of thing except this time it's actually done well! It's proof positive that there is gold in them there hills just waiting to be unearthed! Watch it now!!!! Or don't!
Christ on a cracker! I was looking at my Netflix Streaming queue for something to spotlight today and I was shocked to see that tons of my favorite flicks are slotted to expire on May first! I have no idea why but apparently a grand scale purging of epic proportions is about to take place! It's very upsetting when I consider all the movies that are not available on other formats! Oh the humanity! Kids, you have to jump on these movies while you can! You never know when Netflix is going to… (I'm making a slashing across my throat gesture with my finger and then rolling my eyes and sticking my tongue out to represent death.)
BLOOD AND LACE (1971)
I know I'm always gushing on this one but it's one of my favorite finds and it is greatly responsible for my falling in love with the possibilities of Netflix Streaming! Full review HERE.
SUGAR HILL (1974)
Luckily this one is on DVD. I'm still going got to give it a shout out though for it also brings back fond memories of my early days of discovery with the betrayer known as Netflix. Full review HERE!
SCREAMTIME (1974)
Ack! Not available on DVD! This is a fun anthology of short films one of which concerns garden gnomes that come to life! It also features a video store from way back in the early days! Must see. Full review HERE!
I START COUNTING (1969)
I don't think this one is on DVD either! Jenny Agutter is in this movie! If that name means nothing to you…get lost! Weirdo! Full review HERE!
10 TO MIDNIGHT (1983)
This one is pretty easy to get a hold of but I'll just mention it anyway as a gentle reminder that if you haven't watched it yet, you should. I know it looks like an action flick but its heart bleeds sticky, icky ‘80s slasher blood! More HERE!
BLOOD GAMES (1990)
Just watch this trailer and realize this is your new favorite movie…
Plus I noticed these babies are splitting too… AMOK TRAIN, OPEN HOUSE, HOUSE WHERE EVIL DWELLS, COMMITTED, DERANGED, VAMPIRE CIRCUS, BLOOD CREEK, THE FALLING (aka ALIEN PREDATOR), SQUIRM, THE EVICTORS, RAW MEAT, WITCHFINDER GENERAL, THE BEAST WITHIN, INITIATION OF SARAH, BLACK CAT (‘89), QUEEN OF BLOOD, THE DUNGEONMASTER and even ROLLER BOOGIE and who knows what else! THE APLLE too!!!! Egad No!!!!! Not THE APPLE! This is a nightmare! CRY FOR ME!!!!!
