Really Awful Movies

Women in Cages

A cockfight sets the tone and tips off its location: exploitation country, actually the Philippines where lots of this crap was filmed because it was cheap and offered an exotic backdrop. Women in Cages isn’t a metaphor for some underground art-house feminist production. It’s antithetical to that in every possible way, but we’ll give it this much: theContinue reading “Women in Cages”

American Descent

A found footage, revenge torture vetsploitation teen detective story quintuple threat, American Descent is quite ambitious and for the most part interesting. That being said, it’s not without considerable flaws. Found footage is undoubtedly effective at generating scares with its immediacy and intimacy, and at a very low cost. However it’s a bit like a fighter with aContinue reading “American Descent”