Really Awful Movies

Beetlejuice

As champions of Italian horror, we’re eminently familiar with style over substance. In Beetlejuice, this is similarly true, a sumptuous visual feast (hell, this one also features a dilapidated house, a book of incantations, and a Dario Argento color palette, so perhaps it’s a kindred spirit). A couple (the Maitlands) drives off a bridge andContinue reading “Beetlejuice”

Raising Cain

With his affinity for odd angles, maybe Brian De Palma could’ve been a billiards champ. Here, he brings those gradients and kicks his Hitchcock aspirations into high gear with a largely forgotten, though underrated 90s thriller, Raising Cain. John Lithgow plays multiple roles (and multiple personalities), as unhinged child psychologist Dr. Carter Nix, who isContinue reading “Raising Cain”