On a Monday in early July, I took advantage of my day off to watch all five installments in the Italian Zombi pentalogy. Starting by watching Dario Argento’s cut of Dawn of the Dead, titled Zombi for its Italian release, all the way through 1988’s Zombi 5: Killing Birds, it
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If you’ve never seen Narciso Ibáñez Serrador’s 1976 killer kid movie, Who Can Kill A Child? (aka Island of the Damned, aka Who Could Kill a Child?, aka Death is Child’s Play, aka The Hex Massacre, aka Trapped), be prepared to be slightly bored for about 80 minutes of its
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Oh, my flipping lord. The American Genre Film Archive has once again dove into the Something Weird vault to clean up and release another stylistic mashup to turn your mind inside out. In this case, it’s 1973’s Godmonster of Indian Flats, whose plot summary barely does it justice: “Just when
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There’s an old talking point that says when Republicans are in office, we get better horror films. It’s not entirely inaccurate, either; a quick look at the horror boom in the early 1980s probably provides the easiest and best evidence of this idea, considering what was happening not only stateside
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If you go into Melvin Van Peebles’ 1971 film, Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song, expecting “blaxploitation” as we’ve come to know it, you’re going to be sorely disappointed. You’d think, given the film’s elevated status, more folks would understand the fact that this is a supremely political polemic against the system.
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Second Sight’s Blu-ray restoration of the 1980 alien possession film, Xtro, is the best the British director Harry Bromley-Davenport’s movie has ever looked. Well, kind of. There are multiple versions of the film on the disc that’s out now, including a re-colored version by the director himself.Stick with the Second
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