I'm an academic nerd with a love of B-Horror cinema and no sense of self-preservation.
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The Cellar 1989
A very good monster film with a goopy beast taking a backseat to the horror of the conflict between a disgusting little shit boy and his toxic-aggro dad. Half a point off for an overly-pat ending.
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Camp Blood X: Animated 2023
The shitty Poser-model animation of this Friday-the-13th-plus-clowns film may suck, but somehow, even the soulless sex dolls are more believable as real than the vocal performances.
PS: When I grabbed the case to put this away, I found that my cat had dropped a turd on it. Can't say as I blame him.
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Mardock Scramble: The First Compression 2010
In THE FUTURE, a 15-year-old prostitute named Rune is left to die in a fire by money launderer Shell. She is saved from death by some weird, ill-defined future-y legal protocol that allows experimental cyborg technology to be deployed to revive her and allow her to testify. Shell deploys a series of killers to try and silence her, and her partner, who is either an AI in the form of a mouse or an uplifted mouse (the film seemed undecided…
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They Live 1988
This film has long represented a gap in my cinematic knowledge; today I decided to correct it, thanks to the immaculate blu-ray edition produced by Scream Factory. And I'm glad I did, as it is now my favorite Carpenter film.
They Live is a modern take on a 50s alien invasion/body snatcher picture, positing that the woes of 80s America (and, much though we may laud the era's entertainment today, let us not forget the quiet desperation that often motivated…
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