Really Awful Movies

The Intruder Within

The theory of “peak oil” has been bandied about since the 70s. And as The Intruder Within (1985) points out, a full decade after the concept had been the cause of many a sleepless night: “There’s no such thing as easy oil anymore…” Since then, drillers have had to go further and further afield to find blackContinue reading “The Intruder Within”

Psycho II

“People don’t change”…or do they? Psycho II explores that theme deliciously, a la David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, bridging Hitch’s 60s Norman Bates with the sleazy 80s and managing to do justice to The Master of Suspense in the process. Who knew? And with decades in between this incarnation and the inestimable, explosive original, oddsContinue reading “Psycho II”