Idle Hands (1999)
Idle Hands (1999) – This article was originally publiced on 12ftdwende.com on 10 June 2011 as part of a feature called “Guilty Pleasures.” As you may have noticed once or twice I will often point out the many flaws of a movie, sometimes going as far as to even call it a bad movie, then go … Continue reading
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) – Well they’d thrown a bunch of the Universal Monsters into single movies. Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolf Man all wreaked havoc in the “monster mash” movies House of Frankenstein and House of Dracula. What else could be done? Obviously, humor! The series had kind of descended … Continue reading
The Signal (2007)
The Signal (2007) — This indie flick (Movie #3 in my Halloween Film Fest) is an odd one. On the surface it has a very similar premise to the Stephen King novel Cell and the George Romero movie The Crazies. Execution is where it goes its own way. In essence, all television radio and phone … Continue reading
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987)
Evil Dead II: Dead by Dawn (1987) — After years of only seeing this film on the small screen the Crest’s Trash Film orgy allowed me to see it on the epic big screen it deserves! Now I’m not sure you can really review a film well based on a Trash Film orgy screening. People … Continue reading
Slither (2006)
Slither (2006) — Definitely the better film in my Halloween Alien-Slugs-Make-People-Into-Zombies Double Feature. This movie rocks. Half gross-out horror flick and half comedy, this movie plays to my sick sense of humor. The fact that the leads are Nathan Fillion and Elizabeth Banks should clue you in right away that this movie isn’t playing it … Continue reading
Jennifer’s Body (2009)
Jennifer’s Body (2009) — So this is a horror comedy written by Oscar-winning former stripper Diablo Cody and starring Mega[n] Fox. But it’s never scary and only inconsistently funny. Cody’s Juno-speak doesn’t really work in genres other than “quirky indie flick” and just a word to deflect most people who want to see this movie’s … Continue reading
Zombieland (2009)
Zombieland (2009) — SECOND REVIEW [Blu-Ray]: This movie is pretty much tailor-made for me. As many times as I’ve seen a nun crushing a zombie with a falling piano (in addition to the two times I’ve seen the movie it was in every single ad) I have never failed to laugh out loud. Because that’s … Continue reading
I Sell the Dead (2008)
I Sell the Dead (2008) — Funny and clever but it struggles with one big problem. This is a high budget concept on a low budget. Now horror is a genre that can be done well with very little money but period films generally require something in the way of production value. There is a … Continue reading
Persistence of Vision 