by DanXIII | Jan 4, 2025 | Adaptation, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
School teacher Yamasawa (Tsutomu Yamazaki) spends the summer of 1913 wandering the mountainous countryside of Japan, where he hopes he may find a sign of his colleague and best friend Akira (Gô Katô) who exited the city and disappeared into the mountains three years...
by DanXIII | Dec 28, 2024 | Indie, K-Horror, LGBTQIA+, Movies, Reviews
The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals begins with a rousing score that answers the age-old question of what would Dan Curtis’ Dark Shadows have sounded like with a surf rock score. After that riddle is solved we meet David (Anthony Eisley, whom you may remember...
by DanXIII | Dec 28, 2024 | Indie, Movies, Reviews
Mike Mendez’s (The Convent, Big Ass Spider, Satanic Hispanics) Killers certainly begins with a bang as Odessa and Kyle James (Dave Larsen… who also wrote the film… and David Gunn respectively) throw on a lil’ skull make-up and some Santa hats...
by DanXIII | Dec 22, 2024 | Indie, Movies, Reviews
The Convent begins with some bad-ass schoolgirl-type named Christine beating up some nuns and immolating a convent in 1960 as Lesley Gore croons You Don’t Own Me… and if you can’t dig on that you are reading the wrong column baby… After that...
by DanXIII | Dec 22, 2024 | Indie, Movies, Reviews
In a small rural town, mentally handicapped gentle giant Bubba Ritter (Larry Drake, Dr. Giggles, Darkman) spends his days chumming around with young Marylee Williams (Tonya Crowe)… but that comes to a swift end when she becomes fascinated by a yard-full of...
