Month: March 2012

  • Crash Analysis: HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS (1970)

    Big bites out of cheese Barnabas Collins is awakened once more… Like the long-running Dark Shadows series in the mid to late sixties, this first feature film of the franchise brings together the bulk of the cast, including Jonathan Frid as the vampire people love to hate. But the movie also brought out some of…

  • Crash Analysis: GRINDSTONE ROAD (2008)

    Your ghost cliché movie Parents buy a creepy old house that’s haunted and … yawn I love quality ghost stories and haunted houses – but this isn’t one of them. If you like, however, you can watch the movie and make a drinking game out of predicting what happens next. The problem is that if…

  • Crash Analysis: HARD RIDE TO HELL (2011)

    One big flat tire that will flip your bike and give you major road rash Friends in an RV are ravaged by the biker gang from hell. From ROBOCOP to THE NIGHT-FLIER, I’ve always enjoy Miguel Ferrer’s acting. However, with his body of work, I can’t even begin to guess why he would star in…

  • Crash Analysis: FIRST BORN (2007)

    If you have trouble sleeping, hit “play” A first time mother gets delusional over baby. This feature had the feel of a MOW (movie of the week). Though I doubt Lifetime would run it up the flagpole. Sure, it had atmosphere at times and decent lighting, but twenty minutes could have easily been hacked off…

  • Crash Analysis: BAD BLOOD (2006)

    We’ve seen it all before A man brings his wife and kids to their ancestral home in a superstitious village…  As soon as the movie began, it was clear writer Rodrigo Guedes de Carvalho was going to exploit all the trappings of his culture. Roman Catholicism, possession, exorcism, village mentality versus city dweller mode of…