After Wednesday’s review of one of the more serious Godzilla movies, Rooster Illusion is letting its proverbial hair down with an ultra-low budget horror comedy from the team behind recent silent slapstick masterpiece Hundreds of Beavers*. Lake Michigan Monster (2018): The Plot: Eccentric drunk Captain Seafield (director Ryland Brickson Cole Tews) assembles a motley crew…
I’ll be switching things up a bit this week with some good old fashioned giant monster mayhem. This one’s even kind of a ghost story. Make sure to check in on Friday for my review of Lake Michigan Monster, a very different creature feature. Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack (2001): The…
I’ve always enjoyed doing double-feature articles, especially for Octoberween. I will be totally upfront with you, dear reader: the connective tissue is not as strong in this double-feature as I thought it was going to be. There’s a little, “do these things go together?” A question Victor Frankenstein must have asked himself often. Bear with…
28 Years Later (2025): The Plot: Twenty-eight years after the “Rage virus” swept the United Kingdom (and no other countries, retconning the ending of 28 Weeks Later) a community of survivors has cobbled together a life on Lindisfarne, a small island off the coast of northeast England. Twelve-year-old Spike (Alfie Williams) accompanies his father Jamie…
Octoberween: When you’re here, it’s Octoberween. Enjoy.
An oak tree lurks beneath the grounds of the old farm, having been cut down sometime in the past but momentous enough to warrant its own mythology. They choose to show it as interstitials of dark, deep underground shots. Roots and veins and arteries, throbbing and pulsing and wet.
Time to dust off those critical thinking caps, mes amis. Film criticism isn’t just for October anymore. Now it’s for some other times as well, such as shortly after I have watched this specific French film. Zut alors! Mars Express (2023): The Plot: In the 23rd century, private eye Aline Ruby (Léa Drucker) and her…
