Before Jigsaw. Before Pinhead. Before Leatherface. There was Jack. Saucy Jack, Spring-heeled Jack, Leather Apron, whichever way you slice it, Jack the Ripper is one of the more enduring characters, not only in history but also in popular culture. Let’s look at some of the facts behind Jack the … Read More
Wish Upon (2017) Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Joey King, Ryan Phillippe and Ki Hong Lee. A teenage girl discovers an antique Chinese music box that grants 7 wishes, each of which comes with a deadly price in this simplistic retelling of W.W. Jacob’s short story “The Monkey’s Paw.” In … Read More
Anyone familiar with The Disney Channel on cable may have noted a show called “Yokai Watch”. It is a series from Japan about a boy named Nate (how Japanese), who gets a watch that allows him to see and befriend Yokai, and call upon them in times of trouble. The … Read More
Hot Blood Sundae (2008) Directed by John Darbonne. Starring Bobbi Billard, Gelusa Zaripova and Shastina Eloff. A masked killer with an interest in turning women into new soft serve flavors targets the bikini clad employees of an Adults Only ice cream store. We open with blonde bimbo Girlfriend having a … Read More
Beasterday (2014) Directed by John Bacchus. Starring Jon Arthur, Kristina Beaudouin, Valerie Bittner. A giant carnivorous Easter bunny is chased around by a small town dog catcher and a failed actress as it dines on human prey. “Beasterday” opens with a lazy credits sequence involving Easter eggs, and then we’re off … Read More
Cannibal Diner (2012) Directed by Frank W. Montag. Starring Alexandra Lesch, Kristiana Rohder, Lara Baum. A young woman enters an abandoned factory to rescue her model friends from a clan of mutant cannibals after a camping trip gone wrong. I went into “Cannibal Diner” with certain expectations after reading the … Read More
“Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies” (2016) Austria. Directed by Dominik Hartl. Starring Laurie Calvert, Gabriela Marcinkova, Oscar Giese, Margarete Tiesel, and Karl Fischer. Welcome to the first installment of OMG Theater! As a movie buff, I have one mantra: You have to see bad movies in order to know … Read More
Alien Covenant (2017) Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston and Billy Crudup. 10 years after the crew of the Prometheus met their end, the colony ship Covenant follows a mysterious signal to a habitable planet hiding deadly secrets. We open in the past as the android David … Read More
The Black Room (2016) Directed by Rolfe Kanefsky. Starring Natasha Henstridge, Lukas Hassel and Lin Shaye. An ancient Incubus imprisoned in the basement of a suburban house makes erotic trouble for new home owners Paul and Jennifer Hemdale. In the opening scene, Maggie Black (horror legend Lin Shaye) wakes up in the … Read More
“Child Eater” (2016) Directed by Erlingur Thoroddsen. Starring Colin Critchley, Cait Bliss, Melinda Chilton and Kara Durrett. A young boy and his babysitter are pursued through the night by the carnivorous specter of a long dead serial killer, who plans to make a meal out of the kid. The title … Read More
