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WHITE CHAMBER (2018) Blu-ray Review
White Chamber (2018) d. Paul Raschid (UK) (89 min) Set in the near future, the United Kingdom rages through a savage period of civil war, with the insurgents having seized control of a governmental...
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Fool's Views (5/16 - 5/31)
"Butch knows best..."Back again! And just in time before the madness of Cinepocalypse 2019 begins! The latter half of May was highlighted by three horror icons – Peter Cushing, Vincent Price, and...
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THE GREEN INFERNO (2013) Blu-ray Review
The Green Inferno (2013) d. Eli Roth (USA) (101 min) Eager to “do something worthwhile,” college freshman Justine (Lorenza Izzo) joins an on-campus activist organization led by the charismatic...
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VEROTIKA (2019) Movie Review - CINEPOCALYPSE 2019
Verotika (2019) d. Glenn Danzig (USA) (90 min) Festival filmgoers are adventurous by their very nature, oftentimes experiencing movies that have never screened before (or for very limited audiences)....
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THE BLACK CAT (1934) Blu-ray Review
The Black Cat (1934) d. Edgar G. Ulmer (USA) (65 min) Bearing no resemblance to the original story by Edgar Allan Poe, this atmosphere-drenched offering from Austrian expatriate Ulmer is a superior...
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CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 (Part 1 of 4)
Following its successful maiden voyage in November 2017, Cinepocalypse (formerly the Bruce Campbell Horror Film Festival) made a shift to a summer time slot the following year. Due to pre-existing...
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CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 RECAP!!! (Part 2 of 4)
This summer in Chicago has been exceedingly damp, with thunderstorms nearly every single day. Saturday proved to be no exception and while the forecast stated that morning skies would be clear, I was...
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CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 RECAP!!! (Part 3 of 4)
Ah, the late nights and early mornings that accompany festival life were starting to take their toll at this point, but knowing we only had one more long day to survive, we strapped on our Big Doc...
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CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 RECAP!!! (Part 4 of 4)
As we headed into the final stretch, the giddy boost added by the previous evening’s screening of Tammy and the T-Rex was still lingering in the air, with people finally talking about something other...
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CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 RECAP (One Link to Bind Them All)
CINEPOCALYPSE 2019 6/13 VEROTIKA6/14BELZEBUTH PUNTA MUERTO FLATLINERS VILLAINS MOPE GWAR VS. ROCK 'N' ROLL NIGHTMARE6/15 DEADCON (W/ ONE LAST MEAL) GWAR VS. CINEPOCALYPSE (PHALLUS IN WONDERLAND) THE...
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THE RAVEN (1935) Blu-ray review
The Raven (1935) d. Lew Landers (as Louis Frielander) (USA) (61 min) While screenwriter David Boehm’s potboiler is hardly a faithful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s most famous literary work (welcome...
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NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986) Blu-ray Review
Night of the Creeps (1986) d. Fred Dekker (USA) (88/90 min) “I got good news and bad news, girls. The good news is your dates are here.” “What’s the bad news?” They’re dead.” In 1959, young police...
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THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955) Blu-ray Review
This Island Earth (1955) d. Joseph F. Newman (USA) (86 min) After a series of unique scientific instruments are delivered to his lab’s doorstep, atomic scientist Cal Meacham (Rex Reason) is invited to...
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SILENT HILL (2006) Blu-ray Review
Silent Hill (2006) d. Christophe Gans (France/Canada/Japan/USA) (125 min) Rose (Radha Mitchell), desperate to cure her adopted daughter Sharon (Jodelle Ferland) of her nightmares and sleepwalking,...
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THE BEAST IN HEAT (1977) Blu-ray Review
The Beast in Heat (aka SS Hell Camp) (1977) d. Luigi Batzella (as Ivan Kathansky) (Italy) (88 min) Clearly inspired by Don Edmonds’ Ilsa: She-Wolf of the SS, writer/director Batzella (with help from...
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THE NEW YORK RIPPER (1982) Blu-ray Review
The New York Ripper (1982) d. Lucio Fulci (Italy) (93 min) For the slasher fan sick of the heavy-breathing, hulking, mute brute and/or the wise-cracking chatterbox psycho, this skeevy little thriller...
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FUNNY GAMES (1997) Blu-ray Review
Funny Games (1997) d. Michael Haneke (Austria) (108 min) Austrian writer/director Haneke (Amour, The Piano Teacher, Cache) is not interested in pandering to audiences, especially not those glutted on...
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Fool's Views (6/1 – 6/30)
Howdy, folks! Been a fair spell since I’ve done the full Fool’s treatment, mostly due to the fact that Cinepocalypse 2019 took up a large chunk of time and energy, but also I’ve been teaching more...
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QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1967) Blu-ray Review
Quatermass and the Pit (aka Five Million Years to Earth) (1967) d. Roy Ward Baker (UK) (97 min) While working on an extension of the London Underground in Hobbs End, a construction crew comes upon...
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THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) Blu-ray Review
The Leopard Man (1943) d. Jacques Tourneur (USA) (66 min) Produced and directed by the winning team of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur, this third effort is as atmospheric as their previous The Cat...
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