When you just let an imagination go, sometimes the most tremendous things can happen. This film, The Terrorists, is Pure Millard. Set in Munich and his home in Northern California (but…
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The Nineties were bizarre. Everyone remembers Nirvana, extra-large flannels, and greasy hair, sure. But we often forget about the other part of the era that included the unfortunately named Cherry Poppin’…
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Years ago, I figured out that I didn’t want children. There wasn’t a journey of self-exploration that led to this decision. I just woke up one day and knew that there…
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This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. Here’s what I did when I was 23 years old: Go to…
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I am a cat person, but I do not have a cat. I just find cats refreshing. They’re total assholes that don’t care about your feelings, and they aim to please…
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This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. I live in New York City. It’s a city with two Major…
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Not since Ogroff have children been dismembered with such spectacular gusto as in The Curse of Kazuo Umezu. But that tracks. Kazuo Umezu’s The Drifting Classroom is my favorite horror manga…
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Some of the strongest human emotions are revealed where we least expect them—not in the expression, but the spaces between. It’s the exhale of breath you hear after someone tells you…
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A newscaster delivers an opening line that says it all: “Was it a pretty face that made this gaping, jagged hole in the windshield?” Sandy is bummed. After breaking up with…
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There’s a gang of teenage bullies and a vengeful schoolgirl with a scythe, what could possibly go wrong? Nothing. Nothing can go wrong. Absolutely everything is right thanks to The Machine…
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I couldn’t sleep after watching The Manson Family. It wasn’t because of the story of Charles Manson and his cult of murderers. I’ve read Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliosi and listened…
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It’s not easy being a Roberta Findlay fan. In an interview that appears on the Blu-ray of The Oracle, Findlay admits that she hates horror movies (“I don’t like them at…
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It’s a story we’ve seen over and over and over again: A Hell Witch appears at a “devil hole” along with the Hell Virgin, who is the innocent daughter of the…
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What happens when you struggle with your sexuality? What happens when you are torn between two relationships, the one society wants you to have and the one you actually desire? What…
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My beloved friends, come gather around me and a few well-heeled Miss Asia contestants so I can tell you a little story about a curse. It’s a special curse—a blood curse.…
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If nothing else, fan films like The Shape prove that the music of White Zombie will outlive us all. SOB. Michael Myers is dead . . . but his mask sure…
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This movie opens with forty-three seconds of orchestral exotica and slime monsters hanging out in a motel parking lot. Sold! For no good reason, ten-foot-tall Slime People have risen from the…
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This is an updated version of a review that was originally published in Bleeding Skull! A 1990s Trash-Horror Odyssey. A lifetime ago, I lived in a gentrifying neighborhood. Where, on one…
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At its heart, They Don’t Cut the Grass Anymore is a film about class. We’ve got the richie riches with their grand suburban homes, perfectly manicured lawns, and cocaine. And then…
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Last week, a woman moved in to the apartment above mine. She had loud sex two days later. That same evening, I was walking my dog and she introduced herself and…