Friday, November 13, 2026

Everything is numbered here. The monster is Zero.


GODZILLA MINUS ZERO

2026
Written and directed by Takashi Yamazaki

Spoilers: maybe a little high, as I think we have to talk about some scenes that you'd be better off going in completely ignorant of, but not high because I tell you what monster Godzilla fights in this movie, because I'm giving you the credit of not being an idiot

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Into the woods


WILDWOOD

2026
Directed by Travis Knight
Written by Chris Butler (based on the novel by Colin Meloy and Carson Ellis)

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, November 6, 2026

Perfection Week: Mom, take a picture of me with the tremor!


TREMORS 3: BACK TO PERFECTION

2001
Directed by Brent Maddock
Written by Nancy Roberts, S.S. Wilson, Brent Maddock, and John Whelpley

Spoilers: moderate

Thursday, October 29, 2026

Census Bloodbath: Everyone's entitled to one good scare


APRIL FOOL'S DAY

Thirteen Halloweens.  That's sinister, don't you think?  And that's how long we've been crossing over with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture in the Old Switcheroo, where for the duration of October he supplements his ever-burgeoning encyclopedia of the slasher, Census Bloodbath, with a takeover of our own wholesome 50s sci-fi feature, Cardboard Science, while I get the sharper end of that bargain here.

1986
Directed by Fred Walton
Written by Danilo Bach

Spoilers: severe

Friday, October 23, 2026

Census Bloodbath: Faces bright with Christmas fever


SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT

Thirteen Halloweens.  That's sinister, don't you think?  And that's how long we've been crossing over with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture in the Old Switcheroo, where for the duration of October he supplements his ever-burgeoning encyclopedia of the slasher, Census Bloodbath, with a takeover of our own wholesome 50s sci-fi feature, Cardboard Science, while I get the sharper end of that bargain here.

1984
Directed by Charles E. Sellier Jr
Written by Paul Caimi, Dennis Whitehead, Scott J. Schneid, and Michael Hickey

Spoilers: moderate

Thursday, October 22, 2026

Census Bloodbath: I know what you did last prom night


PROM NIGHT

Thirteen Halloweens.  That's sinister, don't you think?  And that's how long we've been crossing over with Brennan Klein of Popcorn Culture in the Old Switcheroo, where for the duration of October he supplements his ever-burgeoning encyclopedia of the slasher, Census Bloodbath, with a takeover of our own wholesome 50s sci-fi feature, Cardboard Science, while I get the sharper end of that bargain here.

1980
Directed by Paul Lynch
Written by Robert Guza Jr, William Gray, and John Hunter

Spoilers: man, you could say "moderate," you could say "high," but I would say "it doesn't matter much anyway"