B-MOVIE OF THE MONTH - DEAD END (2003)

Made for less than a million dollars, the slightly obscure Dead End is a chilling little indie you don't want to miss. It might just be the best Christmas horror movie no one ever heard of and every dollar is up there on the screen. It's quirky, weird, funny, bizarre, and scary all at once. Black comedy for sure but much more, this would make a nice double feature with The Perfect Host, another movie we're big on around here. So, grab some eggnog and a snack or two and check out the inimitable Ray Wise with legendary Lin Shaye as they take their family down a wrong turn, what's up with this road? Why doesn't it end? After all, they're just trying to make it to Christmas Eve dessert at Frank's mother's house. Tubi, Plex, Freevee, enjoy! 2.75 stars/2.75

Thursday, October 7, 2021

THE "IT'S ALIVE" BABIES ARE BACK... THEY'RE HUNGRY AND HAVE GROWN IN NUMBERS IN LARRY COHEN'S IT'S ALIVE III : ISLAND OF THE ALIVE (1987)

 
BOO!
Larry Cohen's string of 80's classics such as Q The Winged Serpent and The Stuff seemingly came to a close with this eighty percent turkey, the third and final film in his own It's Alive trilogy. Cohen teams up once again with his favorite actor Michael Moriarty which helps the proceedings much and funny man Gerrit Graham does his campy best as a lawyer in a courthouse scene. 

The courthouse scenes are more entertaining than the island stuff! Once the mechanical babies come in the film starts to meander and somehow the babies themselves are not realistic as should be. Karen Black is a bit miscast and underused. One of those "worth at least one watch" films - sage advice from an amateur movie critic heheh. 1.75 stars/2.75

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