Really Awful Movies

Mystery of Chessboxing

Forget Scream’s Ghost Face Killer. This is the movie that actually originated Ghostie, one of the all-time legendary kung fu antagonists (Mystery of Chessboxing also inspired Wu rapper’s Ghost Face Killah moniker). The plot couldn’t be any simpler: revenge. That’s the lighter fluid that fuels a thousand of these films. Old, ruthless Ghost Face hasContinue reading “Mystery of Chessboxing”

Dressed to Kill

With two marquee stars dispatched by cross-dressers wielding knives in close quarters, the Psycho parallels are obvious. Dressed to Kill has a denouement that was obvious too, but critics brushed it aside, as De Palma demonstrated as he often does, that visual style can carry the day and more than make up for a lotContinue reading “Dressed to Kill”