Chosen SurvivorsApril 21, 2026A computer selects eleven people at random. They are sedated, loaded onto helicopters, and deposited into a state-of-the-art nuclear bunker two miles beneath the desert.… Continue Reading
Creatures the World ForgotApril 18, 2026Hammer Films made three prehistoric spectaculars. The first had Raquel Welch in a fur bikini, plus Ray Harryhausen’s dinosaurs. The second had Victoria Vetri in… Continue Reading
Escape from TomorrowApril 17, 2026Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid… Continue Reading
PaperhouseApril 16, 2026PAPERHOUSE is sometimes categorized as a children’s fantasy film. It’s really not. Bernard Rose (Candyman) adapted it in 1988 from Catherine Storr’s 1958 novel Marianne… Continue Reading
AngelApril 14, 2026The tagline was “High school honor student by day, Hollywood hooker by night.” Audiences showed up for the premise and stayed for an incongruously warm-hearted… Continue Reading
Eyes of FireApril 13, 2026Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.… Continue Reading
Starship InvasionsApril 12, 2026In the summer of 1977, Star Wars came out and changed science fiction forever. A few months later, Canada released STARSHIP INVASIONS, and it did… Continue Reading
The EndlessApril 11, 2026Most cult horror gives you obvious villains. THE ENDLESS gives you people you’d almost want to hang with – warm, communal, strangely at peace -… Continue Reading
Ciao! ManhattanApril 10, 2026The film started shooting in 1967. By the time it wrapped in 1972, its star was dead. CIAO! MANHATTAN began as a loose, Warhol-adjacent project… Continue Reading
Times SquareApril 8, 2026In 1979, Allan Moyle took his cameras into Times Square before the city cleaned it up. What he captured – the grindhouses, the neon, the… Continue Reading
Nothing Lasts ForeverApril 8, 2026One of the strangest cult films of the 1980s was barely released at all. NOTHING LASTS FOREVER is a black-and-white fantasy directed by SNL oddball… Continue Reading