Human Hibachi
What kind of a dinner does $50,000 buy? The clue is in the title: a meal of human flesh, presented with a professionally-edited video documenting the final 24 hours of…
Movies
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn
The second part of original Evil Dead film trilogy starts peculiarly: an abridged and modified retelling of the events of the first film in the series, presumably hoping to avoid…
The ‘Burbs
In one of Joe Dante‘s non-Creature Features, Tom Hanks and Carrie Fisher are young parents living in a seemingly idyllic suburban cul-de-sac, inhabited by suspicious busybodies. Their patriotic veteran neighbour…
12 Dog Days Till Christmas
In the landscape of Christmas-themed telemovies, 12 Dog Days Till Christmas breaks the usual mould. Still feelgood, daytime fare, it avoids the usual unlikely romance trope (for the most part.)…
Gremlins
Joe Dante continues his fascination with the chaos caused by hoards of small, vicious creatures that he started with Piranha, with the more family-friendly Gremlins. It is a theme he…
Silent Night, Deadly Night
Since the 1980s, the Silent Night, Deadly Night series has presented violent alternatives to the typical cinematic Yuletide fare. Focused on traumatic events taking place at Christmastime, most of the…
Suburbia
‘They call it suburbia,’ muses teenage runaway Evan as he flips through his mother’s stolen diary. ‘It’s a combination of the words “suburb” and “Utopia.”‘ Yet, the Suburbia in which…