Category: Crash Analysis

  • Cocaine Bear by Jonny Numb

    Cocaine Bear: The Horror, The Horror My minimal understanding of artificial intelligence is as follows: it’s what happens when humanity gets smart enough to put menial tasks in the hands of machines, since machines can produce the same – if not better – results. This makes sense, as we lazy-ass humans have important things to…

  • EVIL DEAD RISE by Jonny Numb

    Evil Dead Rise: High-Rise, High Concept? (This review contains SPOILERS) The world is always hard on the living, but the level of difficulty varies depending on a myriad of internal and external factors. Beneath the crimson-stew bloodbath of Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, there is a keen understanding of classism, economic strife, and familial estrangement…

  • Halloween Ends by Jonny Numb

    Halloween Ends: The Shape-shifter This review contains SPOILERS It’s a silly nitpick, but I don’t like the credit font in Halloween Ends. It’s pulled from Season of the Witch, that once-maligned, now-(mostly) celebrated third entry in the original series (you know, the one that had nothing to do with boring ‘ol Michael Myers). Feels like…

  • Death Game and Knock Knock by Jonny Numb

    Double Feature: Death Game and Knock Knock Death Game: Bad Times Ahead Peter Traynor’s Death Game is a strange bird: the simple plot has financially successful father George Manning (Seymour Cassel) home alone while his wife rushes off to address an out-of-town emergency with one of their children. Cue a rainstorm that brings two soaked…

  • Wishmaster 25th Anniversary

    Wishmaster 25th Anniversary: Wish On, Child Special effects guru, Robert Kurtzman’s Wishmaster turns 25 this year. At one point, I had considered the film a “guilty pleasure” but over time realized I was being ridiculous. The film, starring Tammy Lauren as Alexandra Amberson, Andrew Divoff as the Djinn, and potent appearances from Robert Englund, Ted Raimi,…