Feature Excerpt A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021 If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Of Monsters and Mortals: Playing Campy Creatures On a Dark and Spooky Night By Orrin Grey • October 21st, 2021 Campy Creatures is, as the box declares, a “Ghoulish Game of Deduction & Bluffing.”
The Sleeper Has Awakened: Watching the David Lynch Dune for the First Time in this, the Second Year of the Plague By Orrin Grey • October 14th, 2021 So, nearly forty years later, in a world with a very different cinematic landscape, on the cusp of a new, much bigger-budget adaptation, did I come out knowing that I’ve seen Dune?
A Distinctive Experience: Overboard (1987) on Blu-ray in 2021 By Orrin Grey • October 7th, 2021 Overboard must be saved from itself.
Exploits Feature “The Call of Cthulhu” By Orrin Grey • October 1st, 2021 There are a million ways to read “The Call of Cthulhu,” but this one sure is the prettiest.
I Played It, Like, Twice... Dead Ends: Learning Something About Myself with Cursed City By Orrin Grey • September 30th, 2021 I dove into Cursed City in the hopes that the familiarity of its similarities to Silver Tower would help to ease some of that intimidation fact, but Cursed City has more in common with Blackstone Fortress.
New Order, Same As the Old Order: Siege (1983) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • September 23rd, 2021 Siege is a 1983 Canadian exploitation flick that is one of a long line of movies aping John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13.
