Uncle Sam is a 1996 American black comedy slasher film directed by William Lustig (Vigilante, Maniac Cop), written by Larry Cohen (God told me to, Phone Booth, Q: The Winged Serpent), and starring Isaac Hayes (Truck Turner). The movie The movie is about Sam (unrecognizable in the movie, but played […]
Blue Underground
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The main reason I am writing this is the release of the two sequels, so I am gonna try to focus less on the original and a bit more on the overall trilogy and the two sequels especially. Needless to say, as is recently the law, whenever Blue Underground digs […]
While US Senator Chapman (Charles Durning), his love interest and secretary Laurel Scott (Katharine Ross) and an advisor take a break from politics on their boat off the coast of Honolulu late in the year 1941, Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen), an advisor for a military contractor, joins Captain Yelland (Dirk […]
In 1990, a horror anthology movie came out that re-united two grand masters of the genre: Dario Argento (Opera) and George A. Romero (The Crazies). They had previously cooperated on a little film you might have heard of: Dawn of the Dead (of which you can hence enjoy a more […]
The latest releases from cult home video label Blue Underground is a pair of films made by the same director, Dick Maas (Amsterdamned). One is his Dutch original shocker The Lift (De Lift, 1983)the other is his bigger budget US remake called Down. (also known as The Shaft, 2001). I’m looking into […]
The Stendhal Syndrome is a 1996 psychological thriller directed by Dario Argento (Opera, Suspiria) and starring his daughter, Asia Argento (Land of the Dead). Below review might contain light spoilers. The film tells the story of Anna Manni (Argento), a cop from the Roman rape squad who seems to suffer from […]
The movie is about detective Visser (Huub Stapel), who is called to a gruesome crime scene: someone must have killed a hooker, dragged it into one of Amsterdam’s myriad canals and sliced the woman up. More bodies show up, the mayor is furious. Is a scuba-diving slasher haunting the picturesque […]