Category: Crash Discussion

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Possessor

    Possessor: Psychological Body Horror  Many have waited patiently for Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor. Coming eight years after his first body horror feature, the riveting science fiction Antiviral, would be beat the sophomore jinx? M. Night Shyamalan and Jordon Peele both fell victim to expectation, but Cronenberg rose to the occasion. In Possessor, Tasya Vos (Andrea Riseborough)…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Episode 350: Comic Books

    THE LAST KNOCK presents: Episode 350: Comic Books

    Holy Comic Books, Batman!  Whenever The Last Knock horror podcast comes to a new milestone, we celebrate with an off-topic episode. This time, it’s comic books. We’re so off-topic that we do not even discuss horror comics! (Sounds like a future episode in the making.) If that’s the case, what are we looking at and…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Jacob’s Ladder 30 Year Anniversary

    Jacob’s Ladder: 30 Years of Existential Horror  In 1990, Jacob’s Ladder grabbed horror fans by the throat. Thirty years late, it still won’t let us go. Directed by Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction, Lolita, and yes, Flashdance), brought Bruce Joel Rubin’s intense and unyielding nightmare from page to screen. Although the movie didn’t fare well in…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Origin Stories

    Origin Stories: The Good, the Bad, and the Horrible  Origin stories can make or break a franchise. Granted, the horror genre is prone to introducing the back story of a character during the first film, but even that can prove fatal. Leading off with the origin stories for The Ring and Brightburn may have resonated, but did…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Diminishing Returns

    Diminishing Returns: Horror that Ultimately Fails  When it comes to any film, as we age, that movie we once loved may not hold up. Diminishing returns in horror is a cruel realty that may leave us empty. How can we love something only to have it fail us?  As always, whenever we watch a horror,…