Your twenty seventh recommendation for the month is a film I have yet to see, but it's from the director of Terrified and has had some rave reviews already. When Evil Lurks has landed on Shudder now. Check it out, and I hope you enjoy it.
Your twenty fifth recommendation for the month is Underwater, the 2020 sci-fi horror movie that still seems to be overlooked by many film fans, despite being pretty bloody great.
That was a good watch. Heartwarming. Reminded me of why I want to get out of the urban life and home; and migrate somewhere quiet, tuned with nature, and a small town. When will that ever happen?
Regardless, this is a good reminder and inspiration. While fiction and too perfect, I believe it does happen, we just have to get out there and find it.
Your twenty fourth recommendation for the month is Chop (2011), a wonderfully hilarious horror comedy that plays out like a great riff on the Saw movies.
Do I rate this based on the present (2023) or when I first saw this in 1994? I guess the latter, so it will be fair, an 8 out of 10. Many are raising and giving bad reviews about this show, but I think it is unfair. This was an early 1990s movie. Movies people are rating today will be just as a “bad” as they described 30 years from now.
That out of the way. It was nostalgic, re-watching this 29 years later. I was reminded of how people think of time travel back then, with not so much a worry about the grandfather paradox, and more about ripples in time.
We've come a long way, not just in movie making, storytelling, but also in how we perceive time and time travel. Yet, the ideas from the 20th Century is as valid today as it was before, only better and more mind-boggling.
If they reboot this, either as a new movie or a TV series, I wonder how it will be reinterpreted. Or maybe, one just have to watch the Korean TV sci-fi “Sisyphus: The Myth” to have a glimpse of what it can be. ^_~
When you can hear Taylor Swift singing in the auditorium next to the one you're watching KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON in..
Like Martin Scorsese intended.
Your twenty third recommendation for the month is Berberian Sound Studio, a psychological horror movie that will work best for fans of giallo movies (considering the references and context) and/or fans of foley work. Or fans of Toby Jones. And who doesn't like Toby Jones?
Centuries ahead of its time, Giovanni Battista Bracelli's "Bizzarie di Varie Figure" (1624) depicts figures made from a range of objects, mostly abstract — cubes, rings, squares — but also such things as rackets, screws, and braided hair.
Your twenty second recommendation for the month is Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape by Jake West, one of many wonderful documentaries that West has helmed on this topic. All of them are worth your time.
A young adult girl's journey in discovering that everything they need in life was already given, despite the loss she had when she was a young girl. From living in the past, from pain, to embracing it, so she can live in the present and face her future with happiness and fulfilment.
Your twenty first recommendation for the month is Evil Aliens, a comedy horror sci-fi with some great gore gags and memorable use of a song made famous by The Wurzels. It's far from perfect, but writer-directro Jake West does a great job with limited resources (and he may reappear here tomorrow).
As kindly sent to me by a Facebook friend, I had never noticed that one of the small and lovely books in the Stuart Gordon pre-order bundle, Tales From The Gordon Grimoire, has this excerpt on the very first page. Courtesy of an interview with . . . me.
Your twentieth recommendation for this month is a series of movies. The Hell House LLC movies. Most people prefer the first film to the others, but I like them all, and think there are some real highlights in the sequels.