Viewing Journal: 1/31/2022

50) THE STYLIST

(2021 dir. Jill Gevargizian) Date Seen: January 31 2022

Gevargizian created one sick deranged character & let's just say Najarra Townsend totally understood the assignment. She nailed it.. We caught this on Arrow Video's sweet new streaming platform "Arrow-player", which appears to cater to cult movie enthusiasts. & I could totally see THE STYLIST gaining a cult following in the future, similar to the way Mickey Keating's MAY (2002) eventually did.. 

For yer health; This movie also features one of my favorite musical scores of 2021. Give it a listen on youtube (Hat tip to Nicholas Elert)

Viewing Journal: 1/30/2022

49) HOME TEAM

(2022 dir. Kinnane bros) Date Seen: January 30 2022

Viewing Journal: 1/29/2022

48) STEPFATHER II

(1989 dir. Jeff Burr) Date Seen: January 29 2022

Everything Jordan Peterson writes reads like it came from the mind of Jerry Blake.

47) TORTURE SHIP

(1939 dir. Victor Halperin) Date Seen: January 29 2022

terrible adaptation of an underrated Jack London story.

46) BEYOND THE 

           INFINITE TWO MINUTES

(2022 dir. Junta Yamaguchi) 2nd Viewing: January 29 2022

fantasy double bill of this + MEGA TIME SQUAD (2019)

Viewing Journal: 1/28/2022

45) 

  NIGHT OF THE BLOODY APES

    [LA HORRIPILANTE BESTIA HUMANA]

(1969 dir. René Cardona) Date Seen: January 28 2022

the pure shlock esprit ultimately won me over.. Just don't eat Taco Bell before viewing because you will experience your own personal Night of the Bloody ASS

44) NIGHTMARE ALLEY

(2021 dir. Guillermo del Toro) 2nd Viewing: January 28 2022

[Black & White 

"VISION IN DARKNESS AND LIGHT" cut]

"& a lot of freaks of nature were put into it.. Used to call them "geeks". A "geek" was a person who was an alcoholic or on drugs. & they put 'em in a cage. & he WAS a wild-man. But they stopped all that in the cities... but the carnival then traveled in the country- & they still had the "geeks". They'd all come pay money to see a man, like an animal in a cage. But, it wasn't done because it was a playground.. You see, some for the first time were amazed; then you remember it was part of the sideshow. But today they got so many "geeks" out there, that they're actually running amongst the public. Not in a cage where they should be.. They're runnin' in the street among us all"

Viewing Journal: 1/27/2022

43) THE BANISHING

(2021 dir. Christopher Smith) Date Seen: January 27 2022

Viewing Journal: 1/26/2022

42) ALIEN LOCKDOWN

                    [aka CREATURE]

(2004 dir. Tim Cox) Date Seen: January 26 2022

41) THE REPTILE

(1966 dir. John Gilling) Date Seen: January 26 2022

I have fanfiction about Reptile from Mortal Kombat hooking up with this thing. Message me if interested

40) WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY 

          [LYCANTHROPUS]

(1961 dir. Paolo Heusch) Date Seen: January 26 2022

This occasionally atmospheric mixed bag came across as an incomplete genre exercise to me. Like perhaps the filmmakers didn’t initially intend on having any real supernatural elements in the story? Everything I can find on the production of the film is in Italian though, so idk. One thing that bugged me at first was the cheap-looking monster makeup that makes the werewolf dude look more like a caveman dude. Fortunately at the 30 minute mark a bunch of crazy Scooby Doo-ish shenanigans start to happen & from there I found it sort of difficult not to be charmed by the movie just a tad. The photography is randomly lush too, in a willfully Gothic “Universal Classic Monsters” sort of way.

Viewing Journal: 1/25/2022

39) SING A BIT OF HARMONY

(2022 dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura) Date Seen: January 25 2022

38) HANAGATAMI

(2017 dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi) Date Seen: January 25 2022

37) 976-EVIL

(1988 dir. Robert Englund) Date Seen: January 25 2022

Outside of a couple of episodes of Freddy's Nightmares, I believe this is the only thing Robert Englund has done as a director. & it's pretty solid! Clever and playful + would've made the ideal slumber party movie as a teen.

Viewing Journal: 1/23/2022

33) PATEMA INVERTED

(2013 dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura) Date Seen: January 23 2022

The temptation to 69 in this universe would be all-consuming at all times.

32) TIME OF EVE: THE MOVIE

(2010 dir. Yasuhiro Yoshiura) Date Seen: January 23 2022

31) 

WAR OF THE GOD MONSTERS

[THE FLYING MONSTER   비천괴수 

                          aka THE UNDEAD BEAST]

(1985 dir. Kim Jeong-Yong) Date Seen: January 23 2022

beastie boys don't show up to save the day in this

Viewing Journal: 1/24/2022

36) SUPERMAN:

              MAN OF TOMORROW

(2020 dir. Chris Palmer) Date Seen: January 24 2022

35) JOURNEY TO 

    THE CENTER OF THE EARTH

(1993 dir. William Dear) Date Seen: January 24 2022

Ok it's not great; but if you watch it following the Golan/Globus "Journey to" 1988 double shit whammy (ALIEN FROM L.A. and JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH), it plays like a vibrant & spunky 2 part Babylon 5 episode.

34) WOMBLING FREE

(1977 dir. Lionel Jeffries) Date Seen: January 24 2022

I wish this had the old Wombles stop-motion animation style from the show. but it was still pretty swell.

Viewing Journal: 1/22/2022

30) THE ICE ROAD

(2021 dir. Jonathan Hensleigh) Date Seen: January 22 2022

a taut wintery update of old stagecoach/wagon train westerns; chock-full of multifaceted characters, decent action, & some thrilling twists & turns.. This is the movie I wish BLACK DOG (1998) had been.

29) THE SEVERING

(TBA dir. Mark Pellington) Date Seen: January 22 2022

immediately strips Noé's CLIMAX of its Most Disturbing Dance Film Ever Made title 

Viewing Journal: 1/21/2022

28) THE TUNE

(1992 dir. Bill Plympton) Date Seen: January 21 2022

27) SLEEPWALK

(1987 dir. Sara Driver) Date Seen: January 21 2022

26) YOU ARE NOT I

(1981 dir. Sara Driver) Date Seen: January 21 2022