Capsule Review… #Alive is a Korean movie about the outbreak of a deadly disease that (you’ll never guess…) makes people all zombied-up and hungry for human flesh, and the survivors are all stuck in their tiny apartments with rapidly-depleting supplies and no one to save them. Production started in early 2019, wrapped up in December……
Capsule Review… A crowdsource-funded Persian American Western Vampire movie…right, so it’s Persian, but it was made in Southern California, so it’s Persiafornian because I think that’s a thing. Also, it’s a Vampire movie, and somehow also a western. Oh, it’s also shot in B&W, so you know it’s just wicked artsy! Arash is a good…
A retelling of the original Gojira (Jesus how many have there been now?), a Japanese retelling… so no Matthew Broderick. I watched this one on a flight to L.A., leedle screen, headphones. Might have been better for The Big TV but then I also thought “maybe a simple, old-school monster movie would be better for…
The original Salem’s Lot was a 1975 Stephen King book, turned into a 1979 made-for-TV Tobe Hooper miniseries… one that I watched when I was twelve. Twelve years old and I knew I was going to be a horror fan when I grew up. The original holds up pretty well, all things considered. For those…
It’s a 70’s-riffic blaxploitation movie! A classic, actually, started the whole “blaxploitation horror” subgenre, back in the day (and yeah, there was a “Blackenstein” too). The original title, before director William Crane took on the project, was “Count Brown’s in Town” featuring the vampire Andy Brown. Wanting to make things a smidge more dignified, he…
Originally watched this on the big screen, watched it again at home, and it felt even longer than it did the first time through. If you combine the first and second halves it turns into a 5+ hour movie. I feel that generally horror movies should be 90 minutes long… though It has always been…