Directors: Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach
Writers: Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach
Release year: 2008
Many things changed since Alice visited the first Wonderland…
There are millions of people around the globe that are fed up with the way things are going in this world. What if they had the chance to unite in a virtual nation and were offered the opportunity to make a difference…?
Director: Roger Corman
Writers: Charles B. Griffith (screenplay)
Release year: 1959
The Picture That’ll Make You… sick sick SICK with Laughter!
The movie begins with a horrible beatnik poet reciting some terrible poetry and that made me almost put it off to watch The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant instead. But hey, since I watched the first minute, I might as well view the next 64. And I’m glad I did, ’cause it’s a pretty damn good black comedy.
Director: David Zucker
Writers: David Zucker, Myrna Sokoloff & Lewis Friedman based on a book by Charles Dickens (who, for some reason, is uncredited)
Release Year: 2008
A classic novel, raped.
Liberal documentary filmmaker Michael Malone (Kevin P. Farley) is trying to end celebration of the 4th of July when the ghost of John F. Kennedy (Chriss Anglin) steps out of his television like Samara and tells him he will be visited by three spirits. The first, and only one who’s more than a cameo, is General George S. Patton (Kelsey Grammer), the second is George Washington (Jon Voight), and the third is Trace Adkins. Around this mangling of Dickens’ classic is wrought a story of terrorist Aziz (Robert Davi) hoping to use Malone to further his goals….
Director: Alex de la Iglesia
Writers: Jorge Guerricaechevarría and Alex de la Iglesia
Release Year: 1995
English title: The Day Of The Beast
An acid comedy for Christmas!
Just as it happened in the film industries of many European countries, the horror genre in Spain had a slow and difficult development until the 60s, when people like Narciso Ibanez Serrador and Amando de Ossorio added a Spaniard flavor to the Eurohorror of those years. However, Spaniard horror lost steam as the 70s ended and by the 80s it was again in a deep slumber in which only cult figures like Jess Franco and Paul Naschy kept truly working within the genre. Fortunately, the 90s brought an entirely new generation of young filmmakers who, having grown up with the films of that golden age, started to create a new series of horror films for the modern reality of Spain.
Director: Dominik Moll
Writer: Dominik Moll and Gilles Marchand (poem “Un poignard en peau de nuit” by Francis Villain)
Release year: 2000
Never trust a helping hand
This film had been on my to-see list ever since it came out. I can gladly say that it perfectly fulfilled my expectations. The only advice I can give, is to not expect to be overwhelmed by the time the film ends. Though things get pretty demented at times, the ways of this film are strangely subtle & sinisterly humorous. If you’ve enjoyed Michael Haneke‘s Funny Games (1997), then you should not hesitate to see this French film too.
Director: David Noel Bourke
Writer: David Noel Bourke
Release year: 2009
Heads or Tails
Johnny (Tao Hildebrand) and Nina (Laura Bach) are quite the happily married couple. He’s a smalltime drug dealer with an unhealthy addiction to the goods. She’s a former-prostitute turned actress. Or so she told him. Johnny has big dreams of his own. Nina has plans of her own too. This can’t go right, can it?
Director:Uwe Boll
Writer:Uwe Boll and Bryan C. Knight
Release Year: 2007
Bring out the monkeys!
Postal Dude (Zack Ward) needs money to support his horribly wife ‘Bitch’ (Jodie Stewart) and so teams up with his uncle Dave (Dave Foley) and his cult to steal a bunch of Krotchy dolls before the Taliban can. Yeah.
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Writer: Jeff Lieberman
Release year: 2004
Jeff Lieberman is still The Man!
On Halloween, the 9-year-old Douglas encounters a mysterious man dressed in black. He mistakes him for Satan, the hero from his favorite computergame. Promptly douglas offers his services as an assistant. Satan doesn’t mind a little help, as he’s currently going on a murder spree throughout the small town…
Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release year: 1968
Seductive Innocence of LOLITA… Savage hunger of a BLACK WIDOW!
Enjoy this fantastic flick about two inbred little sisters with a condition that turns them into infantile vicious little demons!
The full review for this movie can be found here.
Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release Year: 1968
Caught in the web of… inbred teenage girls!
Seeing Spider Baby on the big screen is a quite unique experience, since there aren’t that much 35-mm copies in good condition left of this movie. For the Offscreen Festival screening last year (2008), Jack Hill provided a print out of his private collection, for which we thank him heartily. Spider Baby is a black & white sixties treasure filled with demented humor and grotesque terror, dealing with rather bizarre family values.
