Author: Crash Palace

  • Digging Up Pet Sematary Two (Part 2) by Jonny Numb

    MARRED BY INDECISION There comes a point in digging up Pet Sematary Two where Outten, the producers, or Lambert (or all) steered the story in a direction that dropped the intriguing avenues it established, in favor of something more forthright in its outrageousness. And not in a good way. I recall having similar feelings when the…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Worst Horror 2017

    Worst Horror 2017 Unfortunately, as horror fans, we always have to take the bad with the good, and that leads Billy Crash and Jonny Numb to explore Worst Horror 2017. Where Jonny Numb sees 2017 as a good year for the genre, Billy Crash has been disappointed by commercial and independent movies alike. Horror fans wrote…

  • Digging Up Pet Sematary Two (Part 1) by Jonny Numb

    THE GROUND IS SOUR Like some abominable distortion of animal or man rising from the Micmac Burial Ground, Pet Sematary Two is a horror sequel that refuses to stay down. Is it great? Not at all. It’s reckless at best, and careless at worst. But that doesn’t mean there wasn’t a certain amount of potential…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Best Horror 2017

    Best Horror 2017 It’s our Best Horror 2017 list, but was 2017 a good year for horror? Billy and Jonny have different opinions on the topic, and you may be surprised about their “best of” lists. The year saw two big horror films that cleaned up their own blood at the box office: Jordan Peele’s…

  • Crash Reports: Ode to the Austin Film Festival by Paul J. Williams

    The Adventures of a First-Timer at the Austin Film Festival When my phone rang one day this past September with an Austin, Texas area-code, I thought it was just another robo-call from “Jennifer” trying to sell me solar panels for my house, or “Tim” offering me a chance to consolidate my debt, but no, it…