Silent Night, Deadly Night
For as long as there have been slasher flicks, there have been holiday-based horror films – Black Christmas, Halloween, and of course late-period Garry Marshall. This 1984 slasher about a murderous […]
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I’m No Angel
America’s most confident woman returns in I’m No Angel, not to be confused with the Gregg Allman album of the same name. Released 9 months after She Done Him Wrong, I’m No Angel reunites Mae West […]
Mannequin
The DVD cover of Mannequin boasts that it’s a “CLASSIC 80’S MOVIE” which, aside from the misplaced apostrophe, seems an odd proclamation. Don’t classics tend to speak for themselves? The Godfather packaging […]
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before Buffy the Vampire Slayer became the greatest TV show of all time, it was a 1992 film, and the first big-screenwriting credit for a young Joss Whedon. As in “Whedon’t talk […]
Black Shampoo
Mr Jonathan (John Daniels) is a sexy hairdresser with a libido as big as his afro, who does more for his favourite customers than just their hair, presumably in violation […]
Video Nasty 59: Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie is a Spanish-Italian zombie film from 1974. It has more than 15 titles internationally, including Don’t Open the Window (the film has literally nothing to do with windows) and The […]
The Invention of Lying
Set in a world where no-one can tell a lie, or, apparently, withhold their opinion at all, The Invention of Lying follows a failing screenwriter, Ricky Gervais, playing a failing […]
Der müde Tod
A young woman (Lil Dagover) bargains with Death to save the live of her beloved (Walter Janssen). She is sent to three historical periods where she is required to save […]
Showgirls
As Twin Peaks returns to the delight and confusion of viewers, let’s look back on Kyle MacLachlan’s career lowlight. And I’m not talking about How I Met Your Mother. This 1995 stripper […]
Battlefield Earth
To celebrate the release of Wonder Woman, the film that critics are already calling “a superhero movie with a woman in it”, let’s look back on another Warner Bros. landmark. It’s the year […]
Screen Goblin 