The Spooky World of Chris Ringler
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Science fiction encompasses diverse sub-genres, including adaptations like THE DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS, based on John Wyndham's novel. The plot revolves around a meteor shower that blinds humanity and unleashes dangerous carnivorous plants. Despite its bleakness, the film explores survival and hope amidst chaos, deserving recognition despite its obscurity.
SOMNIUM tells the story of Gemma, a young woman pursuing acting in Los Angeles while working at a mysterious sleep facility that promises to help clients achieve their dreams. The film blends science fiction and horror, featuring strong performances, particularly from Choe Levine. Though intriguing, its conclusion feels overly neat, leaving some unanswered questions.
OK, OK, OK, this isn’t ‘found footage’ per se, let’s be clear, it’s closer to ‘mockumentary’ but slides over toward pseudo-news, like GHOSTWATCH and similar films. It’s a film that falls into a very small niche within a niche. Oh, but label aside it’s so, so good. Presented as an emergency cut-in from a national… Continue reading WITHOUT WARNING – found footage review
Thrillers are a darn fun genre, but not one is easy to crack. The ‘90s were filled with them after SE7EN and SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and there is always the occasional movie that breaks through and gets everyone’s attention on the genre again and we go through the cycle again. Serial killer thrillers have… Continue reading RESTORE POINT – review
It's a strange time in Hollywood fandom when someone like Zack Snyder is as derided as he is cheered. His fans think everything he does is genius and the rest act as if he's the worst thing to happen to movies. It's not even a matter of the truth lying in the middle as much… Continue reading REBEL MOON – Part One – A Child of Fire – review
Latter day Carpenter is hard to get your head around. He's one of many modern day filmmaking geniuses that lost favor in Hollywood and after a point his films show that. He and Romero had similar careers in that neithe stopped being good directors, they just lost the funding and support of a system that… Continue reading John Carpenter’s GHOSTS OF MARS – review
Do you ever remember things differently than maybe they happened? I mean, we all do it, right? With friendships. With love. With our heroic adventures where we’re the star. We all do it, exaggerating or blurring reality or not quite seeing a thing for how it was. I have that happen to me all… Continue reading THE ARRIVAL – movie review
Outbreak – short film review One of the things that people have heard over and over again during the Covid-19 pandemic is that people should take this time to be productive and to learn, or grow, or tend, or create. OBVIOUSLY these people have never quarantined before because that all sounds great on paper… Continue reading Outbreak – short film review
In which I talk about conventions and my love for them and such.
Ya know, as modern audiences we are pretty spoiled .Even the the worst and lowest budget movies can luck out and get some talented people to do special effects or computer work for them thus making the film look way better than it has a right to. Now we can turn on the worst of… Continue reading Star Crash
Ahh, the good old days. Once upon a time some friends and I had the grand idea to make a totally no budget movie with stuff we could find, make, or get inexpensively. It would be a grand sci fi epic full of cheese and lasers. I wrote a treatment for the first part of… Continue reading The Age of Freaks
An Interview With Wolfman Mac of Wolfman Mac’s Nightmare Sinema Imagine a day when movies were not at your fingertips. A time when you couldn't easily rent something, or find it on cable. Remember a time when you had to find the movies that would help to form the person you were to become. I… Continue reading My Interview with Wolfman Mac
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