Tag: Larry Fessenden

  • THE LAST KNOCK podcast presents: Barnyard Horror

    Barnyard Horror: On the Farm  There’s more horror films that take place on the farm, leaving “barnyard horror” as a sub-genre some might fight for. The Last Knock plows through its share of barnyard horror to discover which ones wield a good crop of entertainment. Crop Rotation We explore the overly cultivated, such as the Children…

  • 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…

  • Like Me by Jonny Numb

      Like Me Even More… On one level, the title Like Me speaks to the social-media landscape that measures an individual’s worth in terms of how many “likes” they can garner. On another, it alludes to assimilation – the sentiments and behaviors one must adopt in order to toe a line of social acceptability, or…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Five Star Horror: Female Vampires

    Female Vampires Want You! Years before Bram Stoker’s iconic Dracula, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu brought his Gothic novella, Carmilla to horror readers in 1872. Although male vamps dominated the world until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936, that sparked a hunger for audiences that ultimately resulted in the rise of female vampires in the 1960s. With the…

  • Sinners in the Hands of an Indifferent God – CARNAGE PARK (2016) by Jonny Numb

    (Author’s Note: this article is not intended as an endorsement or condemnation of Christian belief. Mentions of God and Christ will defer to the pronoun “he.”) This review contains SPOILERS. “The coin don’t have no say.” – Carla Jean (Kelly Macdonald), No Country for Old Men There’s a scene following a bank heist that’s ripped…