Month: May 2012

  • Crash Analysis: DEADWOOD PARK (2007)

    Could have been a contender Dead kids + return of surviving brother = mystery solved Eric Stanze was certainly ambitious when he wrote and filmed this near miss. After all, he got a group of “living historians” to recreate an extensive WWII scene with genuine equipment – though why he had a girl in a…

  • Crash Analysis: THE CAT (Hong Kong, 1992)

    What the hell?!  Good aliens versus bad aliens in Hong Kong – with a cat… If you like weird and trippy horror films that defy description, such as Nobuhiko Obayashi’s HOUSE (Japan, 1977), then this is the bizarro follow-up you’ve been waiting for. The movie begins with a narrator divulging a strange story, though he’s…

  • Crash Preview: APARTMENT 143 (2012)

    Opens June 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOROfZTd_fE

  • Crash Analysis: PSYCHIC EXPERIMENT (2010)

    So bad it made me hostile A mad scientist’s psychic experiment is underway in a small town… This movie is such a complete mess, there is no place to begin. Regardless, a psychic experiment that turns on crazy people’s telekinetic powers to kill and destroy those around them – for no apparent reason – comes…

  • Crash Analysis: BLACK CAT (2004)

    So bad Poe is pounding to get out of his grave Did a man kill his missing wife and son or…whatever Whenever a DVD starts in my player and has the feel of a very low budget horror, a part of me dies every time. Quality is usually sacrificed for over-reaching directors that do not…