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Shocktober 2024: Godzilla Minus One (Takashi Yamazaki, 2023)
It feels good to watch a proper Godzilla movie during Shocktober — and one of the most lauded in years to boot. This is a prequel of sorts to the original from 1954 (hence the clever title), and starts at the end of WWII, when a cowardly kamikaze pilot witnesses Godzilla wipe out an entire Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Suitable Flesh (Joe Lynch, 2023)
The stats are not encouraging — if you come across a movie adaptation of an HP Lovecraft story, it is likely not that great. But I’m a sucker, so of course I wanted to see this newish Heather Graham-starring thriller based on The Thing on the Doorstep. It’s… not that great. But it starts off promising Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: The Devil Bat (Jean Yarbrough, 1940)
Dr. Carruthers, a humble but proud chemist working for a cosmetic company in a small town, receives a bonus check for $5 000 from his greedy bosses — a slap in the face considering that his work has helped the company make millions. Returning home from the humiliating ordeal, the bosses’ demeaning words echo in Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: In a Violent Nature (Chris Nash, 2024)
What if you made a Friday the 13th-esque slasher movie, complete with deep woods, dumb teens and a big, silent killer à la Jason Vorhees, but shot it primarily from the killer’s perspective, in 4:3, with no music or attention-grabbing editing, and mostly in long takes reminiscent of Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003)? Or indeed Alan Clarke’s Elephant (1989)? Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Back from the Dead (Charles Marquis Warren, 1957)
A swanky beach house somewhere in California. A disembodied female voice sets the stage: ”Before I knew about this house, and what went on inside those dark walls, I refused to believe that such things existed. Certainly not now, in the 20th century, in America.” Mandy and Dick are a young couple on vacation Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: The Phantom of Mar-a-Lago (Vic Berger IV, 2024)
Just in time for spooky season — not to mention the US presidential election — Vic Berger is back, doing what he does better than anyone: skewering Donald Trump and the whole MAGA Extended Universe using found footage from cable news, YouTube and social media. The result: the very fair and balanced editing tour-de-force The Phantom Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Tendre Dracula aka The Big Scare (Pierre Grunstein, 1974)
A legendary horror actor, MacGregor, has announced his retirement from scary movies — all he wants to do from now on is ‘romances’. Two screenwriters are ordered by their boss to visit the famous thespian and try to make him reconsider. But once the bumbling scribes, along with two mysterious ladies they pick up along Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Night of the Creeps (Fred Dekker, 1986)
As we all know, the greatest time to be alive, according to boomer filmmakers in the 80’s, was the 50’s. And what better way to connect the decades, if you don’t have access to a time-travelling DeLorean, than to make a zombie movie in which the undead are frozen in the 50’s and then accidentally Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: Las Vegas Serial Killer (Ray Dennis Steckler, 1986)
Jonathan Klick, the serial killer known as The Hollywood Strangler, is released from prison. He heads to Las Vegas, where he roams around, mutters to himself, and strangles women, primarily models or sex workers. Meanwhile, two mysterious men are listening to the radio when they hear news of Klick’s release. They too make their way Läs mer
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Shocktober 2024: La settima tomba / The Seventh Grave (Garibaldi Serra Caracciolo, 1965)
We open on a dirt road. It’s cold and foggy. Black and white footage shows an old carriage making its way through the rugged landscape. A long take, no music. At this point you might think, am I watching the sequel to my favorite Bela Tarr film? But no, this is not 2rin Horse*, it’s the Läs mer
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