Tag: Support Team

  • Cocaine Bear by Jonny Numb

    Cocaine Bear: The Horror, The Horror My minimal understanding of artificial intelligence is as follows: it’s what happens when humanity gets smart enough to put menial tasks in the hands of machines, since machines can produce the same – if not better – results. This makes sense, as we lazy-ass humans have important things to…

  • EVIL DEAD RISE by Jonny Numb

    Evil Dead Rise: High-Rise, High Concept? (This review contains SPOILERS) The world is always hard on the living, but the level of difficulty varies depending on a myriad of internal and external factors. Beneath the crimson-stew bloodbath of Lee Cronin’s Evil Dead Rise, there is a keen understanding of classism, economic strife, and familial estrangement…

  • 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…

  • Halloween Ends by Jonny Numb

    Halloween Ends: The Shape-shifter This review contains SPOILERS It’s a silly nitpick, but I don’t like the credit font in Halloween Ends. It’s pulled from Season of the Witch, that once-maligned, now-(mostly) celebrated third entry in the original series (you know, the one that had nothing to do with boring ‘ol Michael Myers). Feels like…

  • Allegoria by Jonny Numb

    Allegoria: Shock Rock to Film It’s interesting to see how folks from other creative disciplines fare when they make the jump to film. Maybe it’s no surprise that novelists like Clive Barker and William Peter Blatty made auspicious transitions to directing features (both had screenplay experience), as narrative storytelling was already flowing through their veins.…