Subtle Bluntness

So, I have a quick bit of self-promotion to get out of the way before I go on about my evening. First of all, my Hostel 2 review has been called up to the big leagues over at Den of Geek.  Strangely, it’s an Eli Roth movie I actually liked enough to praise.  Meanwhile, Eli’s [...]

Is it bad to watch a movie and really identify with the cold-blooded, heartless, misanthropic lead character who just so happens to get his kicks from torturing women and killing people? Is it bad to feel sympathy for someone who is only trying to cleanse humanity of all the bullshit and get people back to [...]

When it comes to a drive-in classic, or a movie that wishes it was around for the drive-in and B-theater circuit of the 1970′s, you can never let the plot get in the way of a good story. Fortunately for a movie like HOSTEL, there is no real plot, so you never have to worry [...]

What is there to say about “Jeepers Creepers”? Well… it was supposed to be a horror movie, that’s for sure. It may not have been a horror, but it sure was fucking horrible. A few years ago, when “Jeepers Creepers” came out on DVD, my moron friend from college, Fat Neck bought it despite not [...]

In the business I’m involved with here; you see a lot of trailers. Every movie you see, buy, or rent is chock full of mini-advertisements for other films. Sometimes you watch them, most of the time you don’t. However, after discovering the film I’m about to review, I’ve made a conscious decision to watch every [...]

For a collection of short films, it’s a bit difficult to really lay out a definitive grading. Do you grade each short individually, or do you grade the shorts collectively, giving the disc itself a cumulative grade? As I am weak and spineless, I’ve decided to give you, the reader, the best of both worlds [...]

In the summer of 2000, inspired completely by the movie “Clerks” and seduced by the allure of free movie rentals, I took a job at the closest video store to my house that was hiring. Yes, sir. Hollywood Video and I have had a long and storied non-relationship, mostly with me traveling from store to [...]

As a child of the 80′s, I can’t be helped for the things I’ve seen. Some of you kids, you lucky kids, don’t remember the Bill Cosby sweater, or the super-teased hair, or the neon headbands that some unfortunate characters in this movie wear. You can’t hold it against them, though it dates the whole [...]

AUDITION is the sort of film that will divide an audience of splatter-hardened gorehounds like no other picture can. In reality, its two pictures in one; this makes it eminently more effective than just about every other horror movie of its ilk, and there aren’t many. However, it isn’t for everyone. What will make or [...]

Vincent Price is a person that I feel is sorely underrated in terms of his acting ability. Every time you see Vincent Price, he is never bad regardless of how bad the movie itself may be. You could have Vincent Price reading the back of a can of tomato soup and it’d still be entertaining, [...]