FrightFest 20: Rabid (2019)
Today we go from rabbits to Rabid with the Soska Sisters’ remake of David Cronenberg’s classic armpit horror. “Why do we keep remaking old trends?” asks the self-referential opening line, […]
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FrightFest 20: Satanic Panic
Welcome to the first of 5 reviews from FrightFest 2019, a wonderful horror festival and unofficial singles convention. Described by its director Chelsea Stardust as a “punk rock satanic Wizard […]
From Beyond
The team behind 1985’s Re-Animator reassemble themselves a year later for another slimy helping of H. P. Lovecraft. Jeffrey Combs plays another mad scientist, this time trying to expand perception […]
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit
The choircese returns in this 1993 clerical error, this time teaching an inner-city school to sing a wimple song, essentially making it Coach Martyr. Directed by Bill “Mac from Predator” […]
Quiz Call: Population 436
Here’s another ‘film with numbers in the title‘ that you’d likely only guess by shouting random numbers down the phone. Population 436 is a classic Quiz Call answer in that […]
Quiz Call: Carmen Jones
You’ll kick yourself for not guessing Carmen Jones in Quiz Call‘s musicals category, alongside classics like Boney M musical Daddy Cool and not really a musical Animal Crackers. This 1954 […]
Quiz Call: The Man Who Would Be King
The Man Who Would Be King is not to be confused with this year’s The Kid Who Would Be King, which would definitely be a Quiz Call answer if the show […]
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
Ferengi foot fetishists have a little longer to wait for Quentin Tarantino’s rumoured Star Trek movie (working title: Once Upon a Time in Ferenginar) because first there’s this one about […]
Quiz Call: Three Men and a Little Lady
Three Men and a Little Lady might seem like the perfect unguessable answer but the producers obviously didn’t count on people watching Quiz Call precisely because they just watched the […]
Quiz Call: 976-EVIL
Category is: ‘Films with numbers in the title’ – ironic that a Quiz Call answer would be a film about a cursed phone line. Freddy Krueger himself (Robert Englund) directs […]
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