Really Awful Movies

Green Room

Jeremy Saulnier wanted to make an exploitation movie with ready-made villains. And who better to fill this role (other than Russians, usually, or Arab terrorists) than Nazis? Green Room (2015) is his third full-length feature, his first being the charmingly gory cloistered art scene send-up, Murder Party. Say this about the man: Brooklyn art studios andContinue reading “Green Room”

Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter

Hammer Productions ultimately could not withstand the heightened gore that audiences came to favor in the early 70s, as the gritty realism of The Last House on the Left and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre made Gothic horror appear almost quaint. Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter is latter day Hammer, yet featuring all the things that made theseContinue reading “Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter”