FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB
I love a good seventies devil worshipping picture especially one that has a cast that plays like the greatest Quinn Martin show never made. All this thing needed was William “Cannon” Conrad tearing ass around in a big ol’ Lincoln Continental. William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Keenan Wynn, Ida Lupino , Mr. Douglas [...]
FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB- THE DEVIL’S RAIN
FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB- THE BEYOND
Wow, it’s time for another FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB and this time it’s the gorehound fave, Lucio Fulchi’s THE BEYOND. One of the many cool things about the Film Club is that this is where I get most of my hate mail, which is actually pretty fun. So , what is there to say about [...]
FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB -FRIDAY THE 13th/MY BLOODY VALENTINE
Random thoughts… I apologize for the meandering
FRIDAY THE 13th Uncut- Blu ray
Holy crap, is it really just 10 seconds they added to this motherfucker? I only really noticed some more Bacon as he gets the impossible arrow driven through his fake neck. How the fuck did Betsy fit under the bed, reach out, grab Bacon [...]
Final Girl Film Club-The Antichrist
Leave it to the Italians to jump on the POSSESSION OF JOEL DELANEY band wagon and come up with this lurid family melodrama. I love those guys. So Hipolita is sorta paralyzed , has daddy issues and is generally mopey and annoying. She goes to see a mannequin of Jebus’s mom which is holding the [...]
FINAL GIRL FILM CLUB:Strait-Jacket
William Castle’s STRAIT-JACKET reminds me of a combo platter of PSYCHO and Douglas Sirk melodrama, sort of a WRITTEN WITH AN AXE or DECAPITATION OF LIFE. I suppose today’s audience sees it as ”camp” ( according to Susan Sontag: Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”; not a woman, but a “woman.”) [...]
