When Aaron (Ari Cohen) and Malik (Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman) moved out of the city to a small town setting, they hoped to have a quieter time with things. All the better to raise their daughter Kayla (June Laporte), right? However, stay at home writer Malik soon discovers the neighbors are into some odd behaviors. The old […]
Read more "We Don’t See Many of Your Kind Out Here: Spiral (2019)"Janet (Pamela Collyer) is a dancer who scrapes by as a waitress for her day job. Her boyfriend, wise guy Dino (Jack Langedijk), wants her to move in with him, and her best friend April (Nanette Workman) wants her to trying hooking for better money and hours than diner owner Jerry (Sam Stone) is willing […]
Read more "Police Coverup or Investigatory Incompetence? Evil Judgment (1984)"Karen (Ilona Elkin) is a resident at a psychiatric hospital who has been seeing an influx of paranoid schizophrenic patients. She does what she can, but the institution she works for is more interested in clearing out beds than providing proper care. One of the recent releases, a young Asian-American woman named Viviane (Christine Lan), […]
Read more "God is Love: End of the Line (2007)"In 1981, the first strike among the Halifax police department basically left the city without reliable law enforcement services. While the city did not immediately launch itself into anarchy, there were little displays of antiauthoritarian behavior. One of these involved five guys heading to a local gay club to terrorize the bartender (Dug Rotstein) and […]
Read more "Back to the Wall: Siege"Low budget genre film production companies usually do not stick around long enough to gain either notoriety or a reputation. Troma is one of the few that has endured. Its reputation is . . . let’s be generous and say “mixed.” Some Troma movies are worth a laugh. Many (many, many) Troma movies don’t work […]
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