Really Awful Movies

Damage

The Damage tagline is “bring the pain,” so it could be that there’s some filmic kinship with Roadhouse through its Zen koan, “pain don’t hurt.” But Damage is kind of a reverse Roadhouse (the remake, that is): instead of a cage fighter being pulled into bouncing, the arrow points in the opposite direction. Stone ColdContinue reading “Damage”

Double Blind

A bunch of people sequestered away and given experimental drugs? Is that an extended metaphor for COVID lockdowns? The Irish horror, Double Blind introduces us to the recondite Blackwood Pharmaceuticals through Claire, a surly 30-something test subject in it for a quick buck. And as the title/premise would suggest, Double Blind is a drug trialContinue reading “Double Blind”