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[IN MEMORIAM] A MOMENT FOR ALL THOSE WE LOST IN 2024

[IN MEMORIAM] A MOMENT FOR ALL THOSE WE LOST IN 2024


December 23, 2024    Jon Abrams

  Every year at year’s end, Daily Grindhouse attempts to remember the many talented and remarkable people that were lost over the past 365 days. Here you will find dozens and dozens of names and pictures of people from movies, TV, comics, comedy, sports, fine art, wrestling, books, modeling, cartooning,…

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‘WEREWOLVES’ (2024) IS THE BEST ACTION-HORROR FILM IN A LONG TIME

‘WEREWOLVES’ (2024) IS THE BEST ACTION-HORROR FILM IN A LONG TIME


December 5, 2024    Brian Cartwright

    At the end of Walter Hill’s seminal classic THE WARRIORS, Swan, played by Michael Beck, looks out into the surf and wonders aloud if it has all been worth it. I imagine that millions asked themselves the same thing when emerging from their homes after COVID lockdowns. Loved…

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‘PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT’ IS MADE UP OF SEVERAL EXCEPTIONAL MOMENTS

‘PERFECTLY GOOD MOMENT’ IS MADE UP OF SEVERAL EXCEPTIONAL MOMENTS


November 27, 2024    Brian Cartwright

        Letterboxd can build some bad habits. Sure, it can be a great tool for keeping track of what you watch and your immediate thoughts and what your friends are watching, but its gamified interface prioritizes immediacy over anything else. It’s why we get so many pithy,…

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[ALWAYS THE FINAL KILL, NEVER THE FINAL GIRL] SPEAK UP AND ‘SPEAK NO EVIL’

[ALWAYS THE FINAL KILL, NEVER THE FINAL GIRL] SPEAK UP AND ‘SPEAK NO EVIL’


November 27, 2024    Matt Konopka

  Most characters don’t make it out alive in horror movies. Some survive until the final reel if they’re lucky, while others become bodies on the slab before the titles have even run! They are sacrifices for us bloodthirsty fans, but there’s more to them than that. They have wants…

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HAPPY THANKSGIVING! LET’S TALK ABOUT ‘THANKSGIVING’ (2023)

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! LET’S TALK ABOUT ‘THANKSGIVING’ (2023)


November 27, 2024    Brian Cartwright

    There’s a brilliant and tragic idea in an essay by Carlee Gomes in Lo Specchio Scuro. She argues that the reason people are so precious and defensive about the the ethics of their consumption is that we have reached a point in capitalism that the only way know…

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TABULA PURPURA: ON JOSHUA CHAPLINSKY’S ‘LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER’

TABULA PURPURA: ON JOSHUA CHAPLINSKY’S ‘LETTERS TO THE PURPLE SATIN KILLER’


November 16, 2024    David Fitzgerald

      Serial killers scare the bejeezus out of me. This has been the case ever since a probably-a-little-bit-too-young viewing of SE7EN, and has been born out time and again through adulthood, whether in reading American Psycho and 300,000,000, or in watching MAN BITES DOG and THE POUGHKEEPSIE TAPES, or…

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THE PERSISTENCE OF INDIANA JONES AND THE BRASHNESS OF JAMES BOND: THE RECIPE FOR ‘THE BYZANTINE CROSS,’ A NEW NOVEL BY DENA WEIGEL

THE PERSISTENCE OF INDIANA JONES AND THE BRASHNESS OF JAMES BOND: THE RECIPE FOR ‘THE BYZANTINE CROSS,’ A NEW NOVEL BY DENA WEIGEL


November 15, 2024    Dena Weigel

        Who doesn’t love a great hero? Whether you’re an Indiana Jones fan, or one who roots for James Bond — or both, like me — those movies just wouldn’t carry the same impact if the heroes weren’t as wonderfully bold as they are. But, while these…

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[THE BIG QUESTION] WHAT ARE YOU MOST THANKFUL TO ROGER CORMAN FOR?

[THE BIG QUESTION] WHAT ARE YOU MOST THANKFUL TO ROGER CORMAN FOR?


November 13, 2024    Jon Abrams

    With Thanksgiving ahead and the loss of genre-film titan Roger Corman not far behind us, Daily Grindhouse got together to remember Roger Corman and to give our thanks for just some of his accomplishments, which were all wonderful gifts to anyone who loves the medium of film.  …

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‘GLADIATOR II’ MAY AIM TO ENTERTAIN, BUT IT OUGHT TO TOUCH WHEAT

‘GLADIATOR II’ MAY AIM TO ENTERTAIN, BUT IT OUGHT TO TOUCH WHEAT


November 11, 2024    Preston Fassel

    It feels necessary to say this up front: I’m not sure GLADIATOR II is a movie meant for me. I am a rare breed in that I’m a Roman history nerd who’s actually read the histories. I’m conversant in Suetonius, Cassius Dio, Tacitus, and Gibbon, to say nothing…

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[MOVIES OF THE DAMNED] DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024)

[MOVIES OF THE DAMNED] DEADPOOL & WOLVERINE (2024)


October 23, 2024    Jon Abrams

    I don’t know what you call this thing, but it isn’t “a movie.” CITIZEN KANE, that’s a movie. CASABLANCA, that’s a movie. BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, that’s a goddamned movie. This thing… This is a bukkake party of intellectual properties (IP), but that’s not a movie. Also,…

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ANNA KENDRICK’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT ‘WOMAN OF THE HOUR’ CONSIDERS THE ACT OF WATCHING, AND IT DEMANDS TO BE WATCHED

ANNA KENDRICK’S DIRECTORIAL DEBUT ‘WOMAN OF THE HOUR’ CONSIDERS THE ACT OF WATCHING, AND IT DEMANDS TO BE WATCHED


October 22, 2024    Brian Cartwright

    True crime has historically focused on middle-class and wealthy white women. Examining crime statistics in the US, one sees that queer people, women and men of color, trans people, sex workers, and the homeless are at substantially more risk than white women of means. True crime, and drama…

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[NOW STREAMING] ‘BROTHERS’ (2024) IS A MOVIE YOU MIGHT TOO EASILY MISS… BUT DON’T!

[NOW STREAMING] ‘BROTHERS’ (2024) IS A MOVIE YOU MIGHT TOO EASILY MISS… BUT DON’T!


October 19, 2024    Brian Cartwright

      I look at MGM’s 2024 slate and I am frustrated. THE BEEKEEPER got dumped in January in a decision that seemed mystifying. It ended up doing 150 million against a budget of 40 million, but critics and audiences adored the Statham actioner. What if it had been…

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‘THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT’ IS CHARACTER-DRIVEN TIME TRAVEL WITH HEART

‘THINGS WILL BE DIFFERENT’ IS CHARACTER-DRIVEN TIME TRAVEL WITH HEART


October 14, 2024    Brian Cartwright

  There are two ways for films to handle time travel. The first is to firmly establish rules which are tightly wound like a pocket watch and let us marvel at how everything fits together and how every rule is obeyed. The second treats time travel as a sauce to…

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‘SLEEP’ IS A TENSE, EFFECTIVE DEBUT BLEND OF ROMANCE AND HORROR

‘SLEEP’ IS A TENSE, EFFECTIVE DEBUT BLEND OF ROMANCE AND HORROR


October 14, 2024    Katelyn Nelson

  How far are you willing to go to stick by the ones you love? Would you stay when it got really hard? Job insecurity hard? Body dysmorphia hard? What about possession at the hands of a demon? Writer/director Jason Yu’s debut feature, SLEEP, asks and answers such questions to remarkable…

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[FANTASTIC FEST 2024] ‘FRANKIE FREAKO’ IS A NOSTALGIA-INFUSED PARTY WITH MINI-MONSTERS

[FANTASTIC FEST 2024] ‘FRANKIE FREAKO’ IS A NOSTALGIA-INFUSED PARTY WITH MINI-MONSTERS


October 1, 2024    Matt Konopka

  Not every horror film aims to be a thoughtful examination of trauma. Some just want to party. Enter writer/director Steven Kostanski’s FRANKIE FREAKO — having just played at Fantastic Fest — a nostalgic play on the mini-monster movies that populated the ’80s as welcoming gateways into the horror genre…

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‘SUCCUBUS’ DIGS INTO THE MANY TERRORS OF ‘GETTING BACK OUT THERE’

‘SUCCUBUS’ DIGS INTO THE MANY TERRORS OF ‘GETTING BACK OUT THERE’


October 1, 2024    Brian Cartwright

        Divorce sucks. It represents the unimaginable horror that the person who you thought knew you best is now your adversary. POSSESSION absolutely nailed the mechanics of divorce. There’s a different horror that comes in the wake of separation or divorce, the horror of “getting back out…

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[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘BODY ODYSSEY’ IS BODY(BUILDING) HORROR OBSESSION

[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘BODY ODYSSEY’ IS BODY(BUILDING) HORROR OBSESSION


September 29, 2024    Katelyn Nelson

  Human body as spectacle has been around for centuries. With the advent of carnival freak shows, the everyday member of the public was provided an avenue to ogle bodies different from their own in a way that was, somehow, socially acceptable exploitation. There is, however, some grey area. There’s…

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‘AZRAEL’ PAINTS A VAGUE YET HELLISH PICTURE OF A SILENCED SOCIETY

‘AZRAEL’ PAINTS A VAGUE YET HELLISH PICTURE OF A SILENCED SOCIETY


September 27, 2024    Matt Konopka

I doubt that I’m dropping any sort of revelation here, but never trust a group that prefers you silent. The voices of the masses are the sword and shield against authoritarianism. An organization that deems its message as the only one that matters isn’t looking out for the betterment of…

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[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘THE SEVERED SUN’ IS A VISUALLY RICH REVENGE FOLK HORROR

[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘THE SEVERED SUN’ IS A VISUALLY RICH REVENGE FOLK HORROR


September 25, 2024    Katelyn Nelson

“God can’t save you. You have to save yourself.” Religious horror—and it’s intertwining with feminine rage—is having a resurgence, of late. Even beyond the confines of festival throughlines, this particular thematic trend is on the upswing, and for obvious reasons. With everything imaginable being challenged, threatened, and/or constrained right now,…

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[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘APARTMENT 7A’ IS A SINISTER REFRESH OF A HORROR CLASSIC

[FANTASTIC FEST 2024]: ‘APARTMENT 7A’ IS A SINISTER REFRESH OF A HORROR CLASSIC


September 22, 2024    Katelyn Nelson

  2024 is, unsurprisingly, the year of film’s reckoning with the crisis on bodily autonomy. The horror of losing agency over your own body is only growing more real, and the frequency and viciousness of abortion bans across the country are putting into stark relief the truth of how those…

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[SEE THIS MOVIE!] ‘CLOCKED’ IS A TIMELY AND AFFECTING COUNTERPUNCH TO TRANSPHOBIA

[SEE THIS MOVIE!] ‘CLOCKED’ IS A TIMELY AND AFFECTING COUNTERPUNCH TO TRANSPHOBIA


September 12, 2024    Brian Cartwright

    As I sit here writing this, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has stayed a federal district court decision blocking enforcement of Florida laws banning gender affirming care for minors and severely limiting it for adults. The fight over Florida’s SB 254 is winding its way toward a…

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‘REBEL RIDGE’ IS QUIETLY REVOLUTIONARY. (OKAY, MAYBE NOT SO QUIETLY.)

‘REBEL RIDGE’ IS QUIETLY REVOLUTIONARY. (OKAY, MAYBE NOT SO QUIETLY.)


September 10, 2024    Jon Abrams

    Like the movie’s villains foolishly do with its protagonist, I almost could have underestimated REBEL RIDGE. When last I heard about the movie, it was set to star John Boyega. I’m a fan, and I was disappointed to hear he dropped out. Would have loved to see Boyega…

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IS ‘ALIEN: ROMULUS’ THE FUTURE WE WANT?

IS ‘ALIEN: ROMULUS’ THE FUTURE WE WANT?


September 9, 2024    Jon Abrams

    Here in the future, we live in a moviemaking age of sequels, remakes, reboots, “re-imaginings,” and in the case of ALIEN: ROMULUS, “interquels.” An interquel means this is a film set between two films in the franchise. ALIEN: ROMULUS is set some time between the events of ALIEN…

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SILVER SCREAM CON III: THRILLS, CHILLS, A KILLER GUEST LIST, AND ALL THINGS HORROR COME TO NEW ENGLAND THIS WEEKEND!

SILVER SCREAM CON III: THRILLS, CHILLS, A KILLER GUEST LIST, AND ALL THINGS HORROR COME TO NEW ENGLAND THIS WEEKEND!


September 9, 2024    Alexis den Boggende

        Spencer Charnas’ renowned horror convention Silver Scream Con hits Worcester, Massachusetts, this weekend — and it’s truly a horror fan’s dream.   Hosted by the DCU Center and taking place from September 13th through September 15th, this extreme celebration of the macabre oozes with gut-churning terror….

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