Tag: Mandy

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Creature Feature Weekend

    Creature Feature: All Creatures Here Below… Gettysburg’s Creature Feature Weekend debuted in 2019, and presented a modest alternative to bigger and more crowded East-Coast horror conventions. The con brought a fine group of guests and quality vendors to an out-of-the-way venue, while signaling a burgeoning interest in Pennsylvania-based horror cons. Return of the Weekend After…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents Horror Theater

    Horror Theater: A Trip to the Movies  In a quarantined world thanks to COVID-19, watching the new great horror on a giant screen at your local theater has been interrupted. Well, temporarily at least. And even if you’re not a fan of heading out to the movie house, maybe this The Last Knock episode will…

  • The Grudge (2020) by Jonny Numb

    The Grudge: A Deceptive Ordinariness The new Grudge is probably the harshest telling of the tale (originating with Takashi Shimizu’s Ju-onin 2002), and its moments of violence spring from an intimacy manifested in the despair- or hope-stricken hearts of its characters. It’s a film shot in earth tones, underlining a small-town blandness that augments the feelings…

  • Mandy reviewed by Jonny Numb

    Mandy: The Hellscape We Create “I’m just trying to rid the world of all these fevered egos that are tainting our collective unconscious and making us all pay a higher psychic price.”– Bill Hicks In Mandy, the villains’ driving motivation is entitlement – no different than the current climate in American politics, with its trickle-down…