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The Thing with Two Heads

May 7, 2026

Terminally ill racist surgeon Dr. Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) has been experimenting with head transplants in his basement. His plan is to have his own…

A Dark Song

May 4, 2026

Liam Gavin had watched a documentary about Aleister Crowley performing the Abramelin ritual at Loch Ness. The ritual, drawn from a fifteenth-century grimoire known as…

King Frat

May 3, 2026

Animal House is a beloved classic of American comedy. This isn’t that. This is what Animal House looks like from the bottom of a ditch,…

Stuck on You!

April 29, 2026

Personal Note: Your humble host worked on this film as a teenager, painting caveman clubs on the roof of the Troma building. He still has…

Dead Man Walking

April 28, 2026

A meek accountant from Cleveland travels west by train to a town called Machine and a job that no longer exists. Things deteriorate from there.…

The Incredible Melting Man

April 27, 2026

This is the story of a film that ate itself. Writer-director William Sachs conceived THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN as a loving parody of 1950s atomic-age…

Forbidden Zone

April 25, 2026

This is what happens when an avant-garde theatre troupe decides to make a feature film with no money, no script to speak of, and complete…

Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles

April 24, 2026

Since the early 1980s, hundreds of cryptic tiles have been found embedded in the asphalt of major intersections in Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore, Boston, Washington…

Flesh Gordon

April 23, 2026

It began as a pornographic film. That is not the most interesting thing about it. FLESH GORDON (1974) was shot as early as 1971 by…

The Peasants

April 23, 2026

The studio in Kyiv had to be shut down after Russia invaded Ukraine. The painters were evacuated. When the studio reopened as fighting eased in…

Lifeforce

April 21, 2026

In 1985, Cannon Films gave Tobe Hooper $25 million, a novel about space vampires, and what he later described as the freedom to make a…

Blue My Mind

April 20, 2026

The mermaid has always been male fantasy made flesh – and fin. This film twists the fantasy into something biting and precise. Lisa Brühlmann’s 2017…

Escape from Tomorrow

April 17, 2026

Somebody made a horror film inside Walt Disney World and Disneyland without asking Disney. They used tiny cameras, dressed the cast as ordinary tourists, hid…

Angel

April 14, 2026

The 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…

Eyes of Fire

April 13, 2026

Before The Witch. Before Midsommar. Before folk horror hit the mainstream as a popular subgenre, Avery Crounse made EYES OF FIRE in Missouri in 1983.…