Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Middle-aged by dawn


OLD

2021
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (based on the comic book Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, July 30, 2024

Daddy, daddy, where'd you get them stilts?


LONGLEGS

2024
Written and directed by Osgood Perkins

Spoilers: moderate to high

Sunday, July 28, 2024

Some would say that the Earth is our moon



FLY ME TO THE MOON

2024
Directed by Greg Berlanti
Written by Bill Kirstein, Keenan Flynn, and Rose Gilroy

Spoilers: moderate (somewhat inapplicable, obviously)

Thursday, July 18, 2024

Hollowest Earth



GODZILLA X KONG: THE NEW EMPIRE

2024
Directed by Adam Wingard
Written by Terry Rossio, Simon Barrett, Jeremy Slater, and Adam Wingard

Spoilers: moderate

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

American Gothic Week: In case any of you are afraid of being bored, I promise you it won't take long—it's only a small tribute


MADHOUSE

1974
Directed by Jim Davis
Written by Ken Levinson and Greg Morrison (based on the novel Devilday by Angus Hall)

Spoilers: highish

Tuesday, July 9, 2024

American Gothic Week: To take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them


THEATRE OF BLOOD

1973
Directed by Douglas Hickox
Written by Stanley Mann, John Kohn, and Anthony Greville-Bell

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, July 7, 2024

American Gothic Week: You cannot threaten the dead with death, my friend!


DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN

Directed by Robert Fuest
Written by Robert Blees and Robert Fuest

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, July 6, 2024

Where the wild ones are


THE BIKERIDERS

2024
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (based on the book by Danny Lyon)

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, July 5, 2024

American Gothic Week: They have failed to procure the slightest clew


MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE

1971
Directed by Gordon Hessler
Written by Christopher Wicking and Henry Slesar (based on the story "The Murders In the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe)

Spoilers: moderate

Monday, July 1, 2024

American Gothic Week: Balkanized


BLOOD BATH or PORTRAIT IN TERROR
aka Operation: Titian or Track of the Vampire

1966 or 1968
Directed by Rados Novakovic or Jack Hill or Stephanie Rothman
Written by Vlastimir Radovanovic or Jack Hill or Stephanie Rothman

Spoilers: moderate