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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…
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The Ranger by Jonny Numb
The Ranger: Authority and Anarchy Jenn Wexler’s feature directorial debut, The Ranger, is less interesting in its modest shake-up of bloody genre tropes than in its shakedown of the ideological contradictions of authority and anarchy. The ostensible “heroes” of the piece are teenage punks, full of anti-establishment vitriol wrapped up in a guise of…
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The House that Jack Built by Jonny Numb
The House that Jack Built for… (Author’s Note: while the following review centers more on the tactics filmmaker Lars Von Trier employs to engage and provoke the viewer, it also refers to certain plot points to elaborate on said tactics, which may constitute spoilers. I would recommend that anyone curious watch the film before…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Interview with James Cullen Bressack
At just twenty-five, James Cullen Bressack has managed to rock the horror genre with a multitude of films from My Pure Joy to 13/13/13, and to his very latest, Bethany, about a woman who moves back into her childhood home… James’ feature film career began at eighteen after Robert Rodriguez’s El Mariachi inspired him to make…
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The 2000s: Horror’s Best Decade (Part 3: The Final Chapter) by Paul J. Williams
Please allow me one last time to preface this article with a warning and a statement: Beware! Dozens of movies are discussed and spoilers may exist, so please keep that in mind as you read. And, I’m not a movie historian or expert; I’m just a cinephile, probably like you, who enjoys horror movies. I…
