Let me tell you ALL ABOUT EVIL (2010)
Dir. Joshua Grannell
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 5/15/10, 7:00pm
This weekend was surely a moment to remember in the Austin Texas film scene. We were visited not by one but by two screen legends: Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson, of Movie Macabre fame, and Mink Stole, the Dreamland doll who played Connie Marble, Taffy Davenport, and Peggy Gravel, among [...]
If you aren’t invited to PROM NIGHT (1980), consider yourself lucky
Dir. Paul Lynch
Alamo Ritz, 5/11/10, 10:10pm
Sometimes, I regret adding a film to our calendar when it turns out to be really bad. I’d hate to think you wasted an evening based on our advice, so if you attended the Terror Tuesday screening of Prom Night on our account, I apologize. Is it a bad [...]
“Things are looking up for Milhouse!”
There are few things in this life that I can look forward to, movie-wise. A trip to New York is good, as I know I can return to all of the marvelous theatres in the best cinema town in the US. Terror Tuesday’s upcoming showing of Psycho II is also pretty damn exciting. [...]
THE THING (1982) in 4k digital and the nature of image quality
Since the beginning of the cinema, whenever we watched movies from the past they have always been in deteriorated forms.
In the earliest days of the medium, nitrate prints of old movies were hauled out of make-shift storage facilities for re-examination. This practice was occasionally done in the silent era, but really picked [...]
Philippe Mora double post: THE BEAST WITHIN (1982) and MAD DOG MORGAN (1976)
This past week, we were lucky enough to have been visited by directer Philippe Mora, who’s Howling 2 pleased both a Terror Thursday and Terror Tuesday audience. Mora is a hilarious storyteller, and the comments he made on the Ritz stage had both Tuesday and Wednesday night crowds in stitches. Zack and [...]
Klaus Kinski may be creeping in your CRAWLSPACE (1986)
Dir. David Schmoeller
Alamo Ritz, 02/16/10, 10:15pm
If you are not familiar with the renowned German actor Klaus Kinski, I think I can introduce you to him in a fairly succinct way. In this week’s Terror Tuesday film, Crawlspace, Kinski plays a sexually confused ex-Nazi landlord who spies on his female tenants and sets elaborate traps [...]
Late Night Double Post: PAURA NELLA CITTÀ DEI MORTI VIVENTI (1980) and POOR PRETTY EDDIE (1975)
Paura nella città dei morti viventi – Dir. Lucio Fulci
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 1/5/10, 9:45pm
This Italian splatter film was pretty all over the place. The story is about a gate of hell that has been opened by the suicide of a priest. The only way to close it, and to stop the dead from [...]
NINJA ASSASSIN (2009)
Dir. James McTeigue
Cinemark Tinseltown 15 (Beaumont, TX), 11/29/09, 2:35pm
Don’t see this movie.
Allow me to explain just what it means for me to type that particular phrase. I’m generally against discouraging people from seeing any film simply because I myself didn’t like it. After all, by doing so I would be preventing someone [...]
ROADGAMES (1981)
Dir. Richard Franklin
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/9/09, 10:00pm
If I had to rename this film, I would title it Rear View Mirror. Roadgames, or Road Games as it was advertised as part of the Terror Tuesdays series, is a thriller about a truck driver who becomes obsessed with a series of discovered body parts scattered and [...]
TREMORS (1990)
Dir. Ron Underwood
Alamo Drafthouse Ritz, 12/1/09, 8:45pm
Terror Tuesday this week highlighted a film from the distorted childhood of many people of my generation. The basic premise is simple: a secluded town is disrupted when four earth-mutant-wormy things start causing some trouble by eating people and trucks and house corners. If this premise sounds [...]
