Showing posts with label would-be horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label would-be horror. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Kourosh Ahari's THE NIGHT: You can take Iranians out of Iran, but...

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...you can't take Iran out of Iranians. That's one of the several take-aways the viewer might glean from the new, would-be scary mov...
Friday, October 16, 2020

In Aaron's Wolf's TAR, an L.A. landmark is fodder for some foolish, would-be horror

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The idea of using Los Angeles' semi-famous La Brea Tar Pits as the sort-of setting and theme for a modern monster movie sounds promisin...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

VOD/DVDebut for traumatized adolescent numbskulls in Amanda Kramer's LADYWORLD

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Whew! Characters, situation, scenario, dialog, behavior and movies in general do not come much dumber than LADYWORLD , a film co-written...
Monday, April 22, 2019

With Josh Lobo's VERY slow-burn, would-be horror-thriller, I TRAPPED THE DEVIL, prepare to shred your disbelief

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That's right: Do not simply, as they say, "suspend your disbelief." Instead, shred it, stomp on it, burn it and bury it, i...
Friday, December 22, 2017

Streaming non-recommendation: Netflix's crappy German time-travel series, DARK

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Yes, I know that conventional wisdom  has long insisted that Germans (and German movies) have no sense of humor. But Look Who's Back...
Sunday, May 7, 2017

Daniel Di Grado's ALENA: The Swedes attempt to make a horror movie (and fall on their face)

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Supposedly based on a graphic novel by Kim W Andersson , the movie ALENA offers just about all those "graphic novel" tropes, ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

The Onetti family's very low-end Argentine giallo, FRANCESCA, hits Blu-ray, DVD & CD

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Putting the "lo" in giallo , this bizarre example of how-did-it-ever-get-made-let-alone-released? Italian giallo homage hit ...
Thursday, October 6, 2016

Joel Potrykus & his loony-tune protagonists return with THE ALCHEMIST COOKBOOK

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TrustMovies  was a big fan of the movie Buzzard , bizarre as it was, and so he looked forward hugely to whatever its writer/director, Jo...