Get ‘Em, Kolchak.

Happy Thanksgiving

 

Happy Thanksgiving, all. Every Year my Poppop would put on March of the Wooden Soldiers (also released as Babes in Toyland) and we’d watch those Beast-Men invade toy land while it was defended by a monkey in an unlicensed Mickey Mouse costume and Laurel & Hardy. Now you can too.

 

Also Krull.

Eat everything before your cousins can. Happy Happy.

-M

HAPPY HALLOUIJA

I made this several years ago on short notice with no money and some good friends, and I love it.  All Registered trademarks, you pirate scum. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

-Max

On the Second Day.

On the First Day.

Crawling out of the river with CARNIVAL OF SOULS

 

Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls premiered 56 years ago today in Lawrence Kansas. This midwestern budget masterpiece was inspired by European surrealist art films, and I’m willing to bet took a bit of stylistic inspiration from Alain Resnais’ Last Year at Marienbad, released just seven months earlier. I maintain however, Harvey’s drive-in response to these surrealist Euro-dreamscapes is the superior film. It is weird, it is haunting, and dreamlike, beautiful, sad, and genuinely creepy. It sticks with you and has an odd way of coming to mind out of nowhere, running a chill down your spine in moments you find you are suddenly alone, and the world around you falls momentarily into silence. Like the film’s sad-eyed Heroine, one finds a part of themselves will always be dancing in that cavernous fairground hall.

It’s raining here where I am, and you can find the film free just about anywhere (including the link above) so sit down, turn the lights off, and enjoy. Come home, come home, come home, come home.

 

-Max

I’m gonna look nice.

Let The Lord Refuse Her.

It’s July 27th. That sweaty October Rust is starting to run already. If you haven’t seen Roger Corman’s Masterpiece, grab a cool drink and full screen this now. Watch the opening scene and tell me you’re not hooked. Have a wonderful Friday.

-M

End of the Blog. This is my note.

 

Nah that’s not true. I’ve been busy. Have fun with this crazy shit, I’ll be back some time. Or maybe I am dead, who knows? Can you solve the case in time?

Upgrade Your Gray Matter. ‘Cause one day, it may matter.

Here’s a movie review as short and off the cuff as it is unsolicited, UPGRADE was rad as hell. Go see it in the theater, and in the likely event its already out by the time you try, buy or rent it when it’s on demand and give them your money then, because it’s  great. And they should make more movies like it. Vote with your money, nerds. It’s not based on a book or a toy or a video game, it’s an original Sci-fi/ action/ body-horror/ revenge/ apocalypse movie that’s genuinely really funny. Its darker and smarter than the trailer. Evil robocop meets Buster Keaton , I endorse. Oh. And a God damned phenomenal score by Jed Palmer.