Category Archives: movies

Something to Tide You Over

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Reverend

A great zombie short from my favorite episode of George Romero’s brilliant Creepshow (1982), a grossly underrated film. Leslie Nielsen is genius in this one, and his whole AV fascination and the high-tech, camera controlled house was always one of … Continue reading →

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Zombie Labor

Posted on March 14, 2009 by Reverend

It may come as no surprise that I am fascinated by the privileged position zombies have come to occupy in our cultural imagination recently. And while this surge may be related to our penchant for endless war as this article … Continue reading →

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Zombie vs Jaws

Posted on March 12, 2009 by Reverend

The single most memorable scene of 80s b-movies may very well be this one from Lucio Fulci’s 1980 classic gore fest Zombi 2. Those mothertrucking shark biting zombies are not to be toyed with!

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Heavey Metal Parking Lot

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Reverend

I just came across the above video featuring a scene from Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986), which is a cult classic documentary about Heavy Metal in the 80s that I had never heard of. How in God’s name did I … Continue reading →

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Horror of the 80s: Step-Parents

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Reverend

Now let me be clear about this before I get started, the horror of step-parents is by no means particular to the 1980s. If one thinks about it for a bit, other examples throughout the Western canon of literature and … Continue reading →

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Orson Welles was a mad tripper

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Reverend

Thanks to Christina’s post for professor Carole Garmon’s Approaches to Video Art course I just saw a short, experimental film by Orson Welles titled The Hearts of Age (1934). I had never even heard of this bit of Bunuel-inspired craziness … Continue reading →

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Bava does S&M

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Reverend

I watched Mario Bava’s The Whip and the Body (1963) last night, and I found it rather provocative, or should I say evocative? 🙂 I hadn’t yet seen this “lost classic” of Bava’s, and I finally talked Antonella into watching … Continue reading →

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Of Punks, Pimps and C.H.U.D.s: Gentrification in NYC as told by 1980s film

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Reverend

Disclaimer: This is a “media-enhanced” version of a paper I wrote in graduate school for an American Studies course back in 2002. And while I recognize it is both rough and theoretically meager at certain points, I’m still fascinated with … Continue reading →

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Nighthawks (1981)

Posted on January 23, 2009 by Reverend

I love movies that feature New York City during the late 70s and early 80s, they capture a space on celluloid that I want to constantly remind myself existed once upon a time. And after watching The Hitcher a little … Continue reading →

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This time of year….

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Reverend

….I’m feeling stretched like Jennifer Jason Leigh in The Hitcher (1986). I watched The Hitcher for the first time in over 20 years the other night, a film which I loved back in the day. I was a bit scared … Continue reading →

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