Really Awful Movies

Baskin

Simply sumptuous, Baskin inhabits a rich hue of orange blue color spectrum decadence one might associate with Bava’s Planet of the Vampires. And without about as much sunlight. It makes Only Lovers Left Alive look like Blue Crush. We meet a group of boisterous lawmen in a bar. They’re telling bawdy brothel tales when one of them does a TurkishContinue reading “Baskin”

The Fog

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air” Macbeth Frightful tales told around a campfire connect people with a more primitive form of horror, the kind that hearkened back to our oral culture. In The Fog, the Exemplar of Elocution John Houseman plays Mr. Machen, who is regaling localContinue reading “The Fog”