Forget cable, the best channel on your flatscreen can only be reached by Antenna TV, which brings you a truly wild world of movie genres known as THIS TV. THIS TV, a Channel broadcast out of Chicago by Weigel Broadcasting and it’s President, Neal Sabin, is unlike any other Continue reading In Praise of THIS! TV’s greatest new channel 
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS: Screenwriter Drew Goddard, who made Godzilla into a 9/11 metaphor with his fun CLOVERFIELD, deconstructs the genre again with his directorial Continue reading Pat Jankiewicz Reviews THE CABIN IN THE WOODS 
Every now and then, a brilliant movie comes along–a movie that for no fault of it’s own misses out on an audience–it can be released at a bad time, the marketing fails to draw attention–and it’s merit is only discovered later. This is the Continue reading MIRACLE MILE: The Greatest Film You Never Saw! 
Joe Carnahan’s latest film, THE GREY, is his best since NARC, a lonely, haunting ‘Man v.s. Nature’ epic that could best be summed up as JAMES DICKEY’S JAWS. The tough, terse Ottway(a great Liam Neeson) works with an Alaska oil drilling team. He is Continue reading HOWLING AT THE MOON — PAT JANKIEWICZ reviews Joe Carnahan’s THE GREY 
In the Middle Ages, Lunar eclipses were often considered portents of amazing, cataclysmic events to come. This was especially true last Saturday, when the Moon went blood red in the Earth’s shadow on the morning of December 10th, as hundreds of people camped out underneath it in the chilly Continue reading Review – IT’S NUKE THE FRIDGE CON 2011, CHARLIE BROWN! 
Happy Halloween–For the last 31 days, I have tried to find 31 Continue reading PAT’S LIST OF 31 UNAPPRECIATED HORROR MOVIES!!! 
Private Eye Jack Chandler (Jay Richardson, doing a very funny sendup on hardboiled detectives) is recounting the strangest case of his life-when he encountered the unstoppable cult of Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers! As Continue reading PAT’S HORROR PICKS #31: “Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers” 
The SyFy Channel has given birth to a lot of goofy monsters, but none are more goofy and lovable than SHARKTOPUS! It’s a standard boiler plate monster movie plot from Roger Corman Continue reading PAT’S HORROR PICKS #30: “Sharktopus” Horror comedies are hard to pull off–for every AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON or ZOMBIELAND, there are six joyless STAN HELSINGs! That’s why The Chiodo Brothers’ KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE is Continue reading PAT’S HORROR PICKS #29: “Killer Klowns from Outer Space” 
Larry Cohen, the writer/director best known for his killer IT’S ALIVE baby trilogy, wrote and directed this intriguing, post-modern take on RODAN. When New Yorkers swimming, washing windows and sunbathing start to disappear from Manhattan rooftops, the Big Apple goes into a state of panic. The culprit is an ancient flying reptile–believed by his Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 28 “Q: THE WINGED SERPENT” 
Most horror franchises are generally out of gas by their third installment–you know exactly what Freddy, Jason, Chucky and Michael Myers will do and how others in the sequel will react Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 26 “RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3″ An intriguing, dreamlike, but extremely underrated horror thriller from John McTiernan, who went on to direct PREDATOR and DIE HARD, NOMADS isn’t perfect but it is creepy and interesting. NOMADS is a 1986 horror film by Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 25 “NOMADS” This movie is so scary, it stuns me that it isn’t even on dvd! Janet Greek’s creepy, underrated SPELLBINDER should have a bigger rep and yet, no one seems to have heard of it. Jeff Mills (Tim Daly), a Los Angeles lawyer, is on his way home from s night with friends, Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 24 “SPELLBINDER” 
This, like Horror Pick #21, is another underrated lesbian vampire movie and lets be honest, nobody does lesbian vampires better than our pals, The British! . Two undead hotties (Marrianne Morris as Fran and the stunning Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 23 “VAMPYRES” This one has a slow pace and the title is quite terrible–but if you stick with it, THE KINDRED picks up as it goes on to a pretty cool climax. It has a lot of ideas that are bigger than it’s budget and amazing FX Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks # 22 “THE KINDRED” Richard Matheson’s classic novel “I AM LEGEND” has been filmed three times, with Vincent Price (*This version was a huge influence on George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD), Charlton Heston and Will Smith. This is the coolest Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks #20: “THE OMEGA MAN” 
This is the first–and best–man-eating ant movie ever made! (The best giant ant movie is THEM!, too famous for this list of obscure, unappreciated horror.) Based on the classic Carl Stephenson short story “Leiningen Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks #19: “THE NAKED JUNGLE” 
A cool horror film about a young college student (a pre A-TEAM Dirk Benedict) who gets turned into a snake by evil Dr. Stoner (Strother Martin–who else but a Stoner would wanna turn a guy into a snake?!?) Cool bits include Benedict shedding skin, fighting like a snake (biting and using his Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks #17: SSSSsss A freaky parasite that immediately infects animals and humans, SPLINTER is a profoundly creepy 2008 horror film that feels like a clever variation on THE BLOB and Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks #16: SPLINTER Godzilla movies are usually about power–which rubber monster can defeat another or impose his will on society. WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS is about a brawl between the good and evil members of one monstrous Continue reading Pat’s Horror Picks #15: WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS! |
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