Tag: Independent

  • Outside the Top 5

    Outside the Top 5: An Introduction While The Last Knock podcast is predicated on mine and Billy Crash’s love for the horror genre, we are often faced with a quandary when it comes to addressing the best (and worst) of each year. Basically, it boils down to not having enough time to talk up all…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Best and Worst Horror Movies 2022

    Best and Worst Horror Movies 2022: Interesting Take… Each year, Jonny Numb and Billy Crash come up with their best and worst horror movies for the year, but 2022 is a little different. One of the issues with current horror films is that fans expect so little from commercial and low budget horror that “good…

  • Skinamarink by Jonny Numb

    Skinamarink: An Inherent Risk I like ambiguous movies, but they carry an inherent risk: the outcome winds up either being worth your time, or a grift that leaves you feeling angry and cheated. I front-load a lot of good faith toward experimental movies, but at some point, the experiment needs to deliver – at least…

  • Into the Black Abyss: Deathstream by Jonny Numb

    Into the Black Abyss: Deathstream Timing is a weird thing. Not too long ago, I raked Rob Savage’s Dashcam over the coals, citing it as the death knell of the Found Footage subgenre. Now I’m here to explain how Daniel Mark Young’s Into the Black Abyss: Deathstream pulls it out of the dirt. Even before…

  • X by Jonny Numb

    X: A Questionable Lark (This review contains possible SPOILERS) Ti West’s X feels like a lark, so maybe I should just lighten up and enjoy it as such. But for as much as it does right, it’s also questionable in ways that have nothing to do with its actual content. The inquiry at the core…