If you ever wondered what would happen if you gave H.P. Lovecraft’s eldritch dread the budget of a community-theater bake sale and the creative ambition of a tax seminar, look no further than The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter. A sequel no one asked for to a movie no one remembers, this 1992 … Read More “The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter, Or, How Not to Adapt Lovecraft” »
There are few cinematic experiences as uniquely frustrating as Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me. On paper, it sounds like the ultimate gift to fans: a prequel film from David Lynch himself, delving into the mystery that started it all—the murder of Laura Palmer. In execution, it feels like Lynch wandered into a burning circus, … Read More “Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992): David Lynch Lights a Match and Sets His Own Show on Fire” »
Some sequels expand the universe, deepen the mythology, and leave you wondering how you ever lived without them. Others make you wish you’d left the VHS in its plastic wrap, buried it behind your couch, and never admitted you owned it. Tetsuo II: Body Hammer belongs firmly in the second camp, a metal-on-flesh fever dream … Read More “Tetsuo II: Body Hammer – When Cyberpunk Rusts” »
The Stepfather franchise is one of those horror curiosities that should have been embalmed after its first outing, but like its titular homicidal patriarch, it just kept coming back, worse dressed and more unconvincing each time. By the time we hit Stepfather III in 1992, the series had run so low on creative fuel it … Read More “Stepfather III: Father’s Day — Daddy Issues With a Woodchipper” »
Every once in a while, a film comes along that doesn’t just blur the line between satire and slasher—it takes that line, feeds it through a VCR, and records static over it until your brain feels like it’s channel surfing at 3 a.m. That film is Star Time (1992), Alexander Cassini’s one-and-done descent into the … Read More “Star Time (1992): When TV Raised You, and Then Cancelled You” »
Ah, the early ’90s — when Canadian genre films roamed free across the video store shelves, proudly wearing their neon fonts, laser grids, and VHS box art that always promised more carnage than the budget could deliver. Enter Scanners III: The Takeover, the third and most misunderstood bastard child of David Cronenberg’s exploding-head dynasty. By … Read More “Scanners III: The Takeover (1992): When Heads Explode and So Do Expectations” »
There are bad horror movies, and then there are bad horror movies that feel like they were cobbled together from scraps of other bad horror movies, glued with expired tomato paste, and then left in the sun too long. Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000) is very much the latter. Directed by Aristide Massaccesi—better known as … Read More “Return from Death (Frankenstein 2000) – The Limping Corpse of Italian Horror” »
There’s an old saying in horror: lightning never strikes twice. Paramount Pictures, in its infinite wisdom, took that literally and thought, “Why not dig up the corpse of Pet Sematary and shock it with a cattle prod until it twitches on screen for 100 minutes?” Thus, Pet Sematary Two (1992) was born, a sequel no … Read More “Dead Is Better… And So Is Not Watching Pet Sematary Two” »
The late-night cable graveyard is littered with sequels nobody asked for, and at the very bottom of that pile, underneath the dust and the melted VHS covers, lies Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence. It’s a film that makes you nostalgic for Maniac Cop II—and if you actually are nostalgic for Maniac Cop II, then … Read More “Maniac Cop III: Badge of Silence — Dead on Arrival (and Then Resurrected Anyway)” »
Some movies are forgotten because the public was too dumb to “get them.” Mad at the Moon is not one of those movies. This 1992 Western-romantic horror hybrid starring Mary Stuart Masterson proves that sometimes the public does know best — and what it knew in this case was to run away faster than a … Read More “Mad at the Moon (1992): A Werewolf Western Nobody Asked For” »