Tag: Independent

  • Halloween Watch List by Crash

    Halloween Watch List: Fun and Fear This is just a quick list of horror films that you may want to add to your Halloween watch list. Some films are repeated if they clearly fall into a couple of categories. Regardless, Crash Palace trusts you’ll find something worthwhile to watch this Halloween season! Happy Halloween and…

  • 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,…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Second Chance Horror

    Second Chance Horror: Another Go  Whenever we watch a film, we bring our life experiences to the story on screen. Depending upon our age and state of mind, what we’re watching might not resonate with our psyche. This is reason enough that some horror films may deserve a second chance. For all we know, that…

  • The Magic Bomb by Jonny Numb

    The Magic Bomb (While Crash Palace Productions tends to focus primarily on horror media, we occasionally look at independent productions outside the genre. With The Magic Bomb, writer-director Randy Gordon-Gatica delivers an intelligent thriller on a “zero dollar” budget. The plot hinges on a sense of paranoia, terrorist threat, and tangled human drama that should…

  • My Journey Toward The Gates of Hell by Jonny Numb

    A Tale of Two Blockbusters I’ll admit it: I get nostalgic for my family’s Friday-night trips to our local Blockbuster Video. While people bemoan its existence as a beastly corporation that homogenized the video-rental experience, no two stores were completely alike. It was also the first place I ever saw a VHS copy of Lucio…