Cult

The Forbidden Room

March 26, 2016

A never-before-seen woodsman mysteriously appears aboard a submarine that’s been trapped deep under water for months with an unstable cargo. As the terrified crew make their way through the corridors of the doomed vessel, they find themselves on a voyage into the origins of their darkest fears. The Forbidden Room is a 2015 Canadian…
Motivational Growth

October 26, 2015 Respond

After a failed TV set leads to a failed suicide attempt, depressed and reclusive Ian Folivor (Adrian DiGiovanni) begins taking life advice from The Mold (Jeffrey Combs) a fungal growth in his filthy bathroom.
CHOPPING MALL [Jim Winorsky 1986]

October 12, 2015 Respond

“WHERE SHOPPING COSTS YOU AN ARM AND A LEG!”[+ YOUR HEAD!] From the director of “The Devil Wears Nada”, “The Hills Have Thighs”, “The House of Hooter Hill” or “The Witches of Breastwick” comes for y’all a horror mall sci-fi movie you’ve been all wet-dreaming about. Chopping Mall is every bit of a…
GOD TOLD ME TO [Larry Cohen 1976]

April 17, 2015 Respond

File under: paleoastronautic xenotheological space oddity, police procedural meets occult cosmic drama, paranormal conspiracy mind control epic, contemporary demonology docu-horror. Fuck labels, this film is truly hard to pin down, but what comes of it is a brooding, eerie masterpiece! The last two movies I’ve tried to review have been kindly suggested by Felix Petrescu/Makunouchi…
BLOOD FEAST [Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963]

April 16, 2015 Respond

It is a rare and holy (Easter) occasion to offer a sneak bloody review into a movie such as Blood Feast. Hershell Gordon Lewis opens up with this movies the floodgates for that viscous and vicious materiality for the entire world to see: gore movies. This is a one-of-a-kind movie, a trite, to the wound-,…
Race with the Devil [Jack Starett 1975]

April 16, 2015 Respond

File under: car chase occult horror, buddy movie human sacrifice, hilbilly satanist meet city tourist. Firstly, this horror flick was an influence on Red State (sez Kevin Smith) and a bunch of other action movies involving interrupted rituals and nasty consequences. Race with the Devil has it all – it has Texas slang & twang,…
À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma (José Mojica Marins, Brazil 1963)

March 8, 2015 Respond

I discovered the cursed oeuvre of José Mojica Marins (born 1936) in an Italian horror fanzine I got hold of in 1997 from Rome. They dedicated a lot of pages to an incredible Brazilian phenomenon: a costumed hero like none other – a bizarre magician-like figure with black cape&high hat sporting long, grotesquely curved nails.…
The Ruling Class (1972)

January 26, 2015 Respond

let’s revisit a cult classic for a little bit: the ruling class directed by peter medak, an acidic satire that targets the english class system and leaves no room for subtlety when doing so. it simply goes for absurd lines, bizarre moments and justly schizophrenic acts instead. with one of a hell performance delivered by…