When I was roaming around at Monster Mania not too long ago, I stumbled upon the Vinegar Syndrome booth. I spoke with the dude and told him to sell me something. Out of all the candidates, the one I landed on was “Cthulhu Mansion” by director Juan Piquer Simon (or J.P. Simon, as he’s known […]
Cthulhu Mansion” (AKA ‘La Mansion de Los Cthulhu’)(1990)(Review)[Foreign Friday] Read More »
A priest has become convinced that he knows exactly when the antichrist will be born, and he scrambles and assembles a small team to try to find the location as well before the world itself ends. This is the second feature from Alex de la Iglesia, and it’s a lot of fun. The priest must
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‘Jigoku’ translates to ‘Hell’ in Japanese tongue. And while this film is 60 years old, it has some of the most transgressive, arguably explicit images of Hell that you’re apt to see. When two friends do a hit-and-run, their consciences are ridden with guilt until they meet their own demises. And from then on, we
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Netflix teased all of us months ago with a bunch of horrifying clips, followed by a title that boldly said, “A Classic Horror Story” with the tagline reading ‘…it’s anything but.’ So when they revealed that this got released only about a week or so ago, I immediately jumped on it. The trailer promised “The
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Today’s entry is a hybrid of the foreign and flashback entries. “Diabolique” (french for ‘Devil’), is a simple black-&-white film about a hurting wife and her husband’s mistress, and their plan to get rid of him. If you’ve heard of stories covering this territory before, I believe it’s safe to say this is one of
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