Horror – Page 56 – Really Awful Movies

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”

Mountaintop Motel Massacre

Part Tourist Trap, part Psycho, Mountaintop Motel Massacre lacks the charm of the former and the direction of latter. We’re in small-town Louisiana at some roadside dumpy motel (the kind that “steal your towels” according to the late, great Rodney Dangerfield). Our antagonist, Evelyn, is released from a looney-bin and returns to her place ofContinue reading “Mountaintop Motel Massacre”