What exactly makes someone a cult filmmaker? Let’s face it, the whole question of what makes a film a cult film is poorly defined — and I really don’t see that it is possible to come up with a really good definition. After all, I’ve seen the label slapped on a lot of filmmakers and […]
Read more "Atlantis (1991)"Wow. Yet another movie I never thought I would ever see. It was a very good weekend. And I found yet another of my Wish List movies on Wednesday. But I will tell you about that one later. Now a few years ago, at the time the Pacific Rim sequel came out, I wrote an essay […]
Read more "Sentinel 2099 (1995)"Honorable Mention (Hey, it’s a giant monster movie. We cover giant monster movies) There is a useful rule of thumb about giant monster movies: Most of the time you are better off ignoring the bits between the giant monster battles. Now I’ll admit this is somewhat unfair: after all, Kong is a great adventure film, […]
Read more "Uktena, the Horned Monstrosity (2021)"Wow. You never know what you’ll find next. This is truly the age of the homemade film, thanks to the ready availability of the sorts of tools that past do-it-your-selfers could only have dreamed of. It is an age when a routine list of Youtube recommendations can uncover a film you’d never heard of — […]
Read more "Reset (2016)"This is a very solid piece of work. Here we have a retro-Eighties short SF film, which manages in a very short span — a mere 21 minutes — to establish two interesting characters, build a fascinating future, throw in a bit of conflict, a few fights, and a trip to the moon in a […]
Read more "Moonshot (2016)"This isn’t the version of The Whisperer in Darkness the HPLHS released in 2011. And I should note, it isn’t as good. This is, of course, one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous stories – and with good reason. The story starts with hints of something strange and monstrous, gradually becomes creepier, before finally ending on a horrific […]
Read more "The Whisperer in Darkness (2007)"“Disappearing people? Sharks eating sharks? The only thing missing from this story is a mad scientist” I have to wonder. Has Mark Polonia, after years of making dirt cheap backyard films got to the point where he’s chosen to deliberately make the sort of films the Polonia Brothers make? John Cleese famously said he left […]
Read more "Sharkenstein (2016)"Is this one really a sequel? That’s a strange question to ask, but somehow it seems inevitable. After all, Don Dohler‘s Nightbeast and The Galaxy Invader also feature aliens crashlanding on Earth and causing all sorts of trouble for the locals. Either one of them could have been labeled “2” just as easily. Nor do we […]
Read more "Alien Factor 2: The Alien Rampage (2001)"
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