[Mild spoilers ahead] For some strange reason or other, I seem to have watched a lot of art house science fiction films over the weekend. Don’t ask me why. I ran into Ascension of the Demonoids on a list of interesting no-budget science fiction films, and I suppose it was the fact that I’d seen […]
Read more "Ascension of the Demonoids (1985)"Wow. This is why we desperately need more Indie films. It seems almost clichéd to say, “I’ve never seen anything like this before,” but, ironically, that is very true. I never have seen anything like this. It is a film which on the one hand mocks the low budget Sci Fi films of the fifties […]
Read more "This Giant Papier-Mâché Boulder Is Actually Really Heavy (2016)"One of the films I’ve watched which I have never reviewed on this site is Shin’ya Tsukamoto’s Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Nor am I likely to, any time soon. You see, it is a film which is so inherently strange and inexplicable that any attempt to explain it is going to be difficult, if not […]
Read more "Content: The Lo-Fi Man (2023)"The great part about the endless search for new science fiction films is that one day you stumble across a film you’ve never heard of, and the next you’ve suddenly discovered a whole new vein of fascinating films, and perhaps even discovered a pivotal creator who should be hailed as one of the greats. And […]
Read more "Aelita (1980)"What a strange era the Eighties were. Strange enough, in fact, to produce a film like The Carrier. We have a fairly dark version of the Eighties small town, Sleepy Rock, a town loaded with secrets, factions and rivalries. Nearly everyone despises Jake, a young man who has been accused of accidentally burning his parents to […]
Read more "The Carrier (1988)"If you haven’t heard of Joshua Kennedy by now, you should have. Really. It’s your own fault. Joshua is one of a growing number of young filmmakers who turn out remarkable films for next to nothing, the garage bands of the film world. He is also one of the more accomplished of that small but […]
Read more "The Vesuvius Xperiment (2015)"There are some films you know you have to see long before they ever reach the theaters. For me, anything made by Cory McAbee and The Billy Nayer Show is quite high on that list. His first film, The American Astronaut remains one of those inexplicable pleasures of life – an often surreal lo-fi Western/Sci Fi/Musical/Comedy/Performance Art […]
Read more "Stingray Sam (2009)"It is strange when the best part of a movie is the essay in the liner notes. That certainly is the case with Facets’ DVD release of writer/director James Felix McKenney’s film. He tells us of how he used to watch old science fiction movies on late night TV, tuning in weak signals from distant stations to […]
Read more "Automatons (2006)"
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