Really Awful Movies

Shock ‘Em Dead

There’s a classic scene in This is Spinal Tap where clueless guitarist Nigel Tufnel is showing documentarian Marti DiBergi his diverse collection of guitars. Despite having ones famous for their “sustain” and amps that go up to 11, nowhere in Tufnel’s sundry assortment is an axe with two necks pointing in opposite directions: a “Flying-W”Continue reading “Shock ‘Em Dead”

The Encounter

A found footage / alien fusion, The Encounter wasn’t something we were immediately keen on reviewing and it sat in our to-do pile waiting to hatch from its pod, as it were. The found footage genre is polarizing. The format can frequently handcuff a filmmaker, who’s left needing light sources to compensate for the conceit of characters documentingContinue reading “The Encounter”