Really Awful Movies

The Pit

The Pit is an underseen Canadian horror, set in Wisconsin, which might as well be Canada, what with their humility, funny accents, affinity for beer, ample forests and lousy weather. The film’s creeping sexual coming-of-age elements, an unintended byproduct of casting a 12-year old boy rather than a 9-year old as the screenwriter intended, definitely breathesContinue reading “The Pit”

Search and Destroy

Search and Destroy isn’t just a ripping Stooges song, it’s also a Canuxploitation that really pops. Director William Fruet is responsible for two stellar Canadian tax shelter horrors, the revenge flick The House by the Lake and the hick horror Baker County USA. In Search and Destroy, we get a Vietnamese guide, Nguyen, leading a platoon of US soldiers throughContinue reading “Search and Destroy”