Tag: movies we love
Movies We Love: ‘Hack O’ Lantern’
Man, I hope you’ve seen 1988’s Hack O’ Lantern before reading this, because it’s a wild trip of a film. In short, director Jag Mundhra’s Halloween-themed entry is a Satanic Cult heavy metal movie packaged as a slasher flick, with a weird standup comedy sequence. We discussed this film on our Halloween 2019 podcast episode,… Read More ›
Movies We Love: The House of the Devil (2009)
I know the retro thing has been done a ton of times at this point, to varying degrees of success. In 2009, for me at least, it still felt novel. And all the promo material leading up to the release of Ti West’s The House of the Devil filled a void I didn’t really know… Read More ›
Movies We Love: Drive Angry (2011)
Patrick Lussier’s Drive Angry is one of those movies that not a ton of people went to see, but pretty much anyone that did, loved it. It’s a supernatural action grindhouse explosion movie that does not let up from the first frame. And it is, without question, the movie that Nicolas Cage was made to… Read More ›
Movies We Love: Masters of the Universe (1987)
By 1987, I had really no interest in Masters of the Universe, as a property. I’m sure I watched the cartoon whenever it popped up in syndication, but as far as toys go, GI Joe was pretty much my only obsession and had been since about 1985. That is, until I saw both the TV… Read More ›