As a perverse “thank you” to two of his directors who met their deadlines for their respective shooting schedules, producer Shinya Kawai issued Yukihiko Tsutsumi and Ryuhei Kitamura a Hitchcockian challenge referred to as the “Duel Project”: create a feature-length...
The end of the world is something that most really do not think about. Many of us go on day by day with no thought that any second it can all end. Since the beginning of the 1900’s when a small asteroid struck Siberia and wiped out acres of forest land, did people...
Like Tim Sullivan’s terrific 2005 original, this shot-in-12-days sequel (with a new punning title replacing the long announced BEVERLY HELLBILLIES) is an extended cinematic love-letter to Grindhouse exploitation movies, specifically the work of Herschell Gordon Lewis....
I haven’t had so much fun watching a horror film in a long time, I’ve been waiting patently for years to see “2001 Maniacs” I first got wind of it a few years back and after reading the synopsis, I was very eager to see it. We I did wait a few...
Caution: Reviewer on a soapbox. You stand warned. I suppose if you are going to exploit film industry via a remake, the only way to do so and make it out by the final frame would be to rehash an exploitation flick of yesteryear since, obviously, the original creators...
Indubitably, Darryl Knickrehm’s gift is something that cannot be taught. One is merely born with it or not, and one chooses to either hone it or let it lie dormant. Fortunately for his viewers, the director’s creativity is the true joy behind his work despite the fact...
