Following a triumphant return in 2017, MST3K is back for another go-round on streaming service Netflix, and this time, they’ve bowed to the expectations of an audience that is keen to binge-watch. Season 12 is a tight six episodes, and the show’s already thin plot has been tweaked to explain that Jonah, Tom Servo, Crow … Continue reading “IDIOT CONTROL NOW”: THE FILMS OF MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000 – THE GAUNTLET
Our weekly look at what’s weird in theaters, on hot-off-the-presses DVDs and Blu-rays (and hot off the server VODs), and on more distant horizons… Trailers of new release movies are generally available at the official site links. IN THEATERS (LIMITED RELEASE): Don’t Leave Home (2018): An Irish woman contacts a painter priest whose models disappear. … Continue reading WEIRD HORIZON FOR THE WEEK OF 9/14/2018
DIRECTED BY: Rick Darge FEATURING: Kyle Gallner, Adam Hershman, Celia Diane PLOT: A young virtual reality entrepreneur explores strange herbs and lucid dreaming in an attempt to shake himself out of his rut. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Zen Dog is an earnest, low budget curiosity that dreams big, but doesn’t dial up the … Continue reading CAPSULE: ZEN DOG (2016)
AKA Santa Claus vs. the Devil “Be off, my reindeer, and fly through the heavens as fast as you can go. May my palace of gold and crystal enjoy peace, and Jesus, the Son of God, join us on Earth so that we can all have joy and goodwill.” – Santa Claus “This is weird … Continue reading 311. SANTA CLAUS (1959)
Why no one has ever produced a cinematic biopic treatment of the Chaney boys (Lon Sr. and Lon Jr.) is baffling. Bela Lugosi was given quite a spotlight in Ed Wood (1994), and Boris Karloff was a supporting character in Gods and Monsters (1998). Off-screen, Karloff might have made for a nice neighbor, but being … Continue reading LON CHANEY, JR.