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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,…
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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…
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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…
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THE LAST KNOCK presents: Graveyard Shift 30th Anniversary
It’s Always Dark During the Graveyard Shift The Last Knock celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of director Ralph S. Singleton’s Graveyard Shift. Based on Stephen King’s tale, the narrative explores a stranger’s new job in a Hellhole of an old cotton mill in Maine. But it’s not so much what goes on inside the nightmare factory, but…
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1BR by Jonny Numb
1BR: A Fresh Angle As someone who’s never owned a home, apartment-based movies have always resonated with me. I consider Polanski’s “Apartment Trilogy” one of the unified masterpieces of cinema, because – from Repulsion to Rosemary’s Baby to The Tenant – he captures not only the dread of characters who are “different,” but the ominous…
