Altered Space is something of a horror film that isn’t quite a horror film. In a way, it’s difficult to describe – this is my first time watching a film by Ken Russell, but his reputation has preceded him. Specifically, his reputation for psychedelic, religious, and psychosexual imagery. All of those things are present in Altered Space in spades – with subject matter that is fundamentally horrific but is never presented in that manner. Read more
After the fight, Asuka joins Londo Bell, and Nine goes and chats with some people. Read more
Now with Asuka and EVA Unit-02 helping, Londo Bell finishes off both angels. Read more
We come to our final revision of Street Fighter II for the SNES, along with the newest JRPG after a long gap. Read more
Londo Bell takes down G-Hound just in time for an Angel to show up. Read more
I’m a fan of film noir, and I’m definitely coming to enjoy modern neo-noir. When I saw the trailers for Bad Times at the El Royale come up on my YouTube subscriptions, my interest was piqued.
Tokyo 3 is under attack by G-Hound. Fortunately, Londo Bell is in position to come to the rescue. Read more
Almost 20 years after Dario Argento released the middle installment of his “Three Mothers Trilogy” he made the final installment of the series – Mother of Tears. As with most series that take this long between installments, there is a sense that what you’ll get with the final installment can never live up to what expectations you’ve set for it. However, even then, Mother of Tears is particularly disappointing. Read more
One of the interesting things I like about the boom of interest in Exploitation film after Grindhouse, along with the rise of DVDs as a media format is the rise of the Trailer DVD – a DVD chock full of trailers for various exploitation films from the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. They make for a great snapshot of a moment in time, showcasing both how films were sold (and what you could get away with in trailers), along with the movies being sold. Read more
I had a new viewer on the stream, so we have a recap of some of the changes Super Robot Wars V has from earlier games in the series. Read more
We finish off this group of Dragons and interview our new aces. Read more
The macabre house hunting expedition continues with an Amicus Anthology film featuring Donald Sutherland, Peter Cushing, and Christopher Lee. Read more
We get new upgrades for the Shin Getter Robo and for Mazinger Z, as we overcome Brocken (with more dragons to go). Read more
The crew of Londo Bell continues their patrols, and end up running into the forces of Brocken. Read more
“Blacksploitation”, is something I’d describe more as a cinematic movement more than a genre. This is because it spans just so many genres of cinema – action films, gangster movies, science fiction films, and horror movies – and sometimes even multiples at the same time. Such is the case with Sugar Hill. Read more
One of the issues with modern horror films, particularly those with a human antagonist, is the filmmakers feel the need to give a grounding to their villain’s methods that they feel believable, and they have the same need to make the protagonists just unlikeable enough that when bad things happen to them, things don’t feel overly cruel. The problem is that when this goes wrong it comes across to a degree like victim-blaming – and leads to a toxic message like the one put forward in your standard ’80s slasher film. Don’t Breathe manages to avoid that – barely. This review will contain a few spoilers. Read more
The Yamato now has a new crew member, and she gets a warm welcome. Read more
We turn the tide, until OMG HAX! happens, and we learn that Amalgam had a mole… Read more
Moving back to Dark Horse comics, we have Louise Simonson returning to the Star Wars universe with Dark Horse Comics Read more
The fight goes on, as Team Londo Bell takes on Leonard Testarossa and his enforcers. Read more
Bad News! The Jupiter Empire and Gamillan forces have just joined Amalgam. Good news! Londo Bell and the Yamato have arrived and with reinforcements. Read more
Suspiria was what I’d describe as one of the best films Dario Argento ever made, with a tremendous visual esthetic, particularly through the use of color in the film, combined with the excellent score by Goblin. So, it’s not surprising that Dario made a semi-spiritual sequel. The second film, Inferno, introduced the thematic series that Argento named “The Three Mothers” trilogy, with the films based around three witches drawn from Thomas De Quincey’s Suspiria de Profundis. Inferno aims to basically be “like Suspiria but more so,” but it doesn’t quite work. Read more
When it comes to giallo, the work of Dario Argento is something of a gap in my knowledge, which is a shame since he, like Bava and Fulci, are legends of the genre. Indeed, Argento probably had the greatest mainstream penetration of any work of Italian horror, through this work – Suspiria.
Sousuke and Kaname head back to their old school, to think about the future – only to get an unpleasant interruption. Read more
