We Drilled Too Deep: Underwater (2020) By Orrin Grey • January 13th, 2020 If Underwater is cosmic horror, it’s from the point of view of someone who gets swept up in the devastation but never really knows the greater implications.
A Very Special Human Being: Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 Despite an elder James Cagney being miscast, latex masks and plenty of melodrama, the Lon Chaney biopic still has some of that old Hollywood magic.
Consumed in the Fire of His Own Making: Apprentice to Murder (1988) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 27th, 2019 “Apprentice to Murder isn’t an undiscovered classic…but it’s better than its two-and-a-half-star average on Letterboxd would suggest.”
Because Bigger is Better: RoboCop (1987) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • November 26th, 2019 “Our modern morass fits right in with the RoboCop…”
A Beautiful Pattern: Knives Out and What’s Wrong with America By Orrin Grey • November 25th, 2019 “The people who were hitting Rian Johnson with death threats on Twitter over making The Last Jedi “too political” are going to love this one, is what I’m saying.”
I Want to Tell You a Curious Story: The Prey (1984) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • October 15th, 2019 Despite ample opportunity, The Prey is a slasher that features neither Bigfoot nor Smokey Bear as the villain.
That’s a Recipe for Romance: The Norman J. Warren Collection By Orrin Grey • September 23rd, 2019 Non-existent budgets, full frontal nudity, cash-in plots and five cult movies that are more interesting than they have any right to be.
One Day This City’s Gonna Explode: Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • August 19th, 2019 “I hope this is the wrong kind of crowd.”
Now She’ll Be All Alone: The American Horror Project Volume 2 By Orrin Grey • June 28th, 2019 Arrow is doing the lord’s work by giving such loving, hi-def releases to these kinds of underseen horror films.
Man Against Time: The Big Clock on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 10th, 2019 Orrin takes on The Big Clock, an unusual hybrid of noir and screwball comedy.
