The Villainess
As far as opening action sequences go, South Korean actioner The Villainess might just have the best: a first-person, single-take fight through corridors packed with scores of assailants, like Oldboy meets […]
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Jug Face
2013 horror movie Jug Face (AKA The Pit) reunites The Woman‘s Sean Bridgers, Lauren Ashley Carter and producer Lucky McKee for another genre gem set at the bloody intersection of […]
The Misfits
In her final film, Marilyn Monroe plays a divorcee in Arthur Miller’s existential Western that culminated in their real-life divorce. Like Hitchcock’s Rebecca, The Misfits starts as a comedy about […]
Cowspiracy
Documentarian Kip Andersen takes on not just animal agriculture but the environmental charities which are happy to give it a free pass in the debate over how we can reduce […]
Demons 2
Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento’s 1986 sequel opens on a TV show about some teenagers finding the remains of the demons from Demons, which then escape the TV to attack […]
Straw Dogs
In Sam Peckinpah’s 1971 thriller Straw Dogs, American academic David (Dustin Hoffman) and his English wife Amy (Susan George) move to her tiny Cornish village with barely enough room to […]
Ghost Rider
Stunt rider Johnny Blaze (Matt Long) looks like a young Tom Cruise but following 20 years of brutal motorcycle accidents he ends up with the face of Nicolas Cage. After […]
Video Nasty 9: The Burning
Five years after being burned in a prank gone wrong, a disfigured summer camp caretaker called Cropsy (Lou David) takes his revenge at a camp near an abandoned mine, thankfully […]
Alien vs. Predator
For anyone who saw Godzilla vs. Kong and thought, “I wish this was shorter,” cast your attention back to 2004 sci-fi/action crossover Alien vs. Predator. An archeological team is lured […]
Anna and the Apocalypse
An all-singing, all-shuffling ensemble deliver a pandemic in the key of George A. Romero in this 2017 zombie musical that one might call Song of the Dead. The singalong story […]
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