This week, the Grue-Crew examines “the twist” with a pair of films that pull that rug out from under you. The first film this week, WOUNDS from director Babak Anvari, follows a bartender (Armie Hammer) who is drawn into unexplainable horrors after watching a snuff video on a phone left behind at this bar. The […]
Tag: Possession
[Review] J.D.’s Revenge (Groovy Gory Gruesome Gold, 1976): A Surprising Blaxploitation Classic – by Paul Cardullo
In this episode of Groovy Gorey Gruesome Gold, Paul Cardullo goes back to the mid-1970s for the Blaxploitation classic J.D.’s Revenge (1976). In the 1940s, gangster J.D. Walker (David McKnight) witnesses the murder of his sister (Alice Jubert) and then is gunned down by her murderer. Flash forward to 1976 . . . Isaac, played […]
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“VooDoo” (2017): Provides Found Footage From Hell
Writer/director Tom Costabile‘s VooDoo is an interesting film. It starts out as your standard, run-of-the-mill found footage film before turning into the type you would expect to see if it was announced that José Mojica Marins was making a found footage film. I would not have been the least bit fazed or surprised to have […]
“The Covenant” (2017) : You too will sell your soul to escape seeing this film
Why is that Horror, of all the genres that benefited from digital cinema’s low cost film-making revolution, has been the most inundated with poorly-made films? It’s a question that has more than one answer but none of those answers relieve the frustration felt when trying to get through one of these types of films. No […]