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Well Go USA releases another Hi-yah! original that made the rounds at Fantasia Festival 2022, now on physical media. Screening at Fantastic Fest in 2021 and then later during Fantasia’s 2022 run (among numerous other festivals), Baby Assassins is one of Yugo Sakamoto’s newer films following eccentric hitmen and Yakuza officers. The story follows two girls entering their 20s, Chisato and Mahilo, who work for an unnamed hit agency that employ adolescent killers that work with them to blend their contractors into modern society. Their stipulation is that anyone age 20 or older in their employee roster must work a part-time job and find a place to stay, their assassination work covering the other half of the bill for living expenses and inevitable crime-scene cleanup. The difficult part about Chisato and Mahilo is that they don’t like each other, and they’ve been assigned to be roommates in a small apartment while they begin their job search. During their mandatory assignments of job ...

I wish everyone could see ELVES in their lifetime. There are some great monumental films out there that challenge your perception, your values, and how you think about and see the world. There are movies that are just fun to watch that have no real lasting substance or are completely void of memorable or thought-provoking moments. There are those films that have great sounding concepts, but the finished product shows you where exactly the producers and/or filmmakers stopped caring or didn’t put as much thought into past its overall “gimmick.” There are those movies that are made by the truly deluded auteur who is totally convinced that their ultimate vision is one that is emotionally, morally and (at times) sociopolitically challenging, while it’s regarded publicly as a gigantic creative failure that brings enjoyment to all those who consume it on this basis alone. And then there is the movie ELVES . ELVES tries to be everything that a movie can be, but without realizing that by putti...

A typical Breen love scene. It’s usually hard to begin sorting out your thoughts when it comes to cinema that challenges your understanding of how ideas are communicated through film. It is even harder to sort out those thoughts when the film in question is Fateful Findings . The film was written, directed, edited, stars and is distributed by Neil Breen, a man whose creative process proves enigmatic to many — even those who have been following him since 2005, when he released his first feature-length film Double Down . Fateful Findings , Breen’s third film thus far, has picked up traction as one of his most popular, and one of the most across-the-board eccentric storytelling experiences ever committed to film. And, of course, it’s his most accessible film. Remember this. The film opens on a boy and girl playing in the woods. The boy kneels in front of a mushroom and shows his friend. The mushroom turns into a box with a stone cube inside. The boy takes the stone believing it to be ...

The Fuck Bombers in action! Remember when Kill Bill: Volume 1 came out? If you saw it and liked or loved it, imagine a movie strikingly similar, leading up to the big battle at the Japanese nightclub. Except take out the compartmentalized storytelling format, make the impending Yakuza gang war a subplot, and introduce the daughter of one Yakuza clan leader as a successful child actress for a toothpaste commercial (with an infectiously catchy jingle). Let’s also drop a bunch of film nerd kids in as the main characters. They’re wild, crazy, and inspired, so they get to choose whatever name they want for their film club. Let’s call them the Fuck Bombers. They even have their own hangout spot: a Hall of Justice for recreation, centered around film of course, complete with pinball, arcade games, pool tables and spots to sit and eat or drink. The Fuck Bombers want to make their very own movie! An action movie, of course! They even found their own star, their Japanese Bruce Lee. In thei...

A harmless cabin in the woods. This month in the fantastic world of the largest film archive known to man and Washingtonians (Scarecrow Video), we’re celebrating Earth Month by showcasing films that feature nature in an unrelenting standoff against humankind, to varying degrees. This time we’re visiting the 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead . The story might be familiar to most of you, otherwise it’s simple to re-cap since Evil Dead has been referenced so many times and parodied . We follow a group of kids on a road trip to a lightly mentioned cabin in the woods belonging to someone renting it out for an unmentionable low price. They stay in the cabin long enough to discover an evil presence and accidentally awaken it. They must fight the evil in order to survive the coming sunrise, but this evil is almost impossible to see until it takes a body captive. We see the kids driving to the cabin, intercut with “something” flying through the woods, shot in POV. After some difficulty on ...

This is a good one. MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE uses the ‘outlaw’ character archetype as a constant to show how America progressed since anticipating the end of the 19th century and welcoming the beginning of the 20th. In about 18 years our ‘outlaw,’ Cain, has served his time in prison for a laundry list of crimes and similar offenses. When Cain is released he learns how much the burgeoning United States railroad project alone has accelerated the need for enforcing communities. Thus a set of rudimentary gun laws were implemented. Citizens felt safer and the glorified image of the ‘cowboy’ as it was remembered is just beginning to fade. Enter Billy Valence, a trick shooter in a traveling show. Valence repeatedly muses on the wonderment of the cowboy age describing how one could have it out in the middle of the street in broad daylight, adding that he would be one of the best shooters thanks to his trick skills. Cain eventually joins the traveling show and Valence, having heard of Cain’s reputa...

Take your average summer action movie spectacle. Any given action blockbuster, really. Dip it in Philip K. Dick’s brand of science fiction founded in paranoia, distrust of authority, and systemic conditions. Put a post-Robocop Paul Verhoeven in charge of what goes in the frame and these basic yet frantic ingredients yield one serving of Total Recall. Despite his less-than-subtle oeuvre, Recall is much more than it seems underneath its exterior. Verhoeven ably weaves a healthy thread of uncertainty (one that would make P.K. Dick proud) all along our protagonist’s journey. Schwarzenegger’s mere presence suggests a playful self-aware nature towards the audience’s expectations. This is just part of that thread Verhoeven so deftly weaves. Any moviegoer seeing marketing for Total Recall around its release would assume that since Schwarzenegger gets top billing, his action star status would be put to good use on the screen. In this they’re absolutely right but not in the way that they would ...

5 years ago letterboxd user Cinemonster started a 31-day horror movie marathon and it’s been going ever since. It’s not an entirely new thing. October horror movie marathons have been around forever, relatively immortalized in the form of cable TV programming, competing for ratings and playing whatever they had the license for (or whatever they damn well pleased) begging for you to flip the channel to their station. But in the past couple decades home video marketing has become a lot more eclectic, niche-driven and, well, cooler. Just look at that. Beautiful. What we have now are more personalized releases of films that either had terrible releases squished onto one disc with 7 other bargain movies or never got the treatment past VHS due to lack of interest. Unprecedented access has been granted to film freaks like you and me with releases of films that would likely never have even seen the light of day were it not for us sick weirdos. And what do you do with a gift like that? You buy...

Until the events of the last 12+ months (and still running), this would be considered more as a straight detective narrative than anything remotely horrifying or even mildly depressing. Now, it’s directly horrifying and majorly depressing. Just in this past year people who would previously never know or care to find out themselves about how viruses as deadly as these disrupt everything now have a plethora of information outlining the brutal efficiency in which COVID-19 can completely dismantle systems. Sigh, what did we learn from that? Jack Palance on the run from a murder that unfortunately spurred the outbreak. How’s it feel to be the epicenter, Jack? HOW’S IT FEEL?! But now knowing how a virus as deadly as the plague (or even less deadly than the plague, but still deadly ) can affect towns, cities, ports and the economy (to name a few!), this could easily have gotten worse at any point. Donning a macho image as a response to a perceived accusation of spreading a virus or compl...

We’re currently witnessing a welcomed renaissance of Barbara Crampton. In 2011 she was cast in You’re Next and the next year Lords of Salem, both to positive reception amongst critics and moviegoers. More recently she has taken on independent projects to produce since 2015's Road Games , in which she also starred. Jakob’s Wife marks the third feature-length film in which she has produced & starred (the only outlier being 2020’s Castle Freak ), and is the most ambitious of them to date. Crampton is joined on-screen opposite Larry Fessenden, who also has a two-pronged horror history behind and in front of the camera. Crampton plays Anne, the wife of Fessenden’s milquetoast minister Jakob, visibly bored from her routine that exists to support her husband’s lifestyle and calling. It only takes news of an old fling from Anne’s past coming into town for work for her to perk up about something for a change, and for Jakob to grow jealous. Barbara Crampton as Anne Fedder. Photo courte...

In what seems to be serendipitous timing, Shinya Tsukamoto’s 1991 feature Hiruko the Goblin will be released in a brand new restoration later this year from Third Window Films, making it available for the first time ever in high definition for the film’s 30th anniversary. It will be making its debut in The Japan Society’s upcoming JAPAN CUTS film festival, from August 20th to September 3rd. Loosely based on the series Yōkai Hunter by Daijiro Morohoshi, Hiruko is a tightly focused story that follows Professor Hieda, an eccentric archaeologist who teams up with a student tortured by an evil presence as they search for the breeding grounds of goblins plaguing the grounds around them. It just so happens that those breeding grounds are just a stone’s throw away from the school that the student, Masao Yabe studies. Together they alone must battle the goblins and fight to end the curse. Tsukamoto is most known for his Tetsuo films and its extreme body horror imagery, which is not for everyon...

Arrow Video’s subscription on-demand video streaming service, Arrow Player, is about to close out its first year since premiering in October of 2020 with one hell of an announcement slate for Month 11 of its service. At the top of the list is Zoé Wittock ’s directorial debut Jumbo , starring Noémie Merlant as Jeanne, an introverted, eccentric & creative girl who starts working at an amusement park after hours and becomes drawn to the park’s new attraction, embarking on an otherworldly relationship. Jeanne lives with her mother Margarette, played by Emmanuelle Bercot, who struggles with her own romantic challenges and feels a connection to her daughter that isn’t exactly as mutual as she thinks. The film explores themes that many romantic dramas have thoroughly mined, but it does things a little different: Jeanne becomes infatuated with someone at the amusement park however, where this would weave a yarn of a love affair with someone from the wrong side of the tracks, it’s instead f...

Alternate title: HOUSE OF DEATH Deep cut slasher fans will have something to celebrate later this year. A brand-new transfer of Death Screams will be available on disc soon, September 14th from Arrow Video and then on their streaming service Arrow Player in October! The film follows a small community during the last night of a local carnival a day after a young couple is murdered near the town’s riverbank. The bodies float downriver, still to be discovered, but the town’s priorities rest with giving the carnival a proper sendoff. Couples young and old attempt to impress their better halves, dates and so on by demonstrating their prowess of the usual carnival games, the narrative weaving between the different characters as they interact naturally with each other. Later that evening, a group of kids get together to spend time at the nearby river for an old-fashioned bonfire party. But among them may be the killer looking for their next victim — of which they blame for every misfortu...

Image courtesy of 1091 Pictures In the bayous of Houma, Louisiana, a legend lingers among the residents and those who have seen it are warned against speaking of it. This is the legend of the Rougarou, a cryptid specific to the outlying bayous, wetlands, and marshes far from modern civilization. It takes the shape of what most would call a werewolf; a wolf-like creature in an anthropomorphic form that stands upright and emits a red glow from its eyes. The origins of the Rougarou are traced in Seth Breedlove’s documentary Skinwalker: Howl of the Rougarou , with specific focus on the native Houma tribe’s telling of the creature’s origin. Breedlove makes a dedicated effort to amplify Houma tribe voices in featuring residents of the area who have their own gripping stories to tell of the monster. The bayous that border Houma, LA is home to the elusive wolf-like creature, where it lives in isolation. What is arguably the most interesting fact in the documentary is that there is no wolf ...

Simon Barrett’s feature-length debut film Seance will likely be the talk of Shudder streamers this week. Barrett pulls from a plethora of different influences to illustrate his brand new horror mystery flick, to varying degrees of success. Shudder’s official synopsis of Seance : Camille Meadows is the new girl at the prestigious Edelvine Academy for Girls. Soon after her arrival, six girls invite her to join them in a late night ritual, calling forth the spirit of a dead former student who reportedly haunts their halls. But before morning, one of the girls is dead, leaving the others wondering what they may have awakened. Seance opens on a group of girls in the Edelvine Academy in a bathroom, attempting to call forth the spirit of a past student who committed suicide in the very bathroom they gather in. According to their ritual it has to be done at the exact time the declaration of death was announced (sometime around 3 AM). Everyone seems to be engrossed in this supernatural experime...