The clock is ticking. A scientist is in a race against time to prevent a parasite from being loosed upon the world, to paraphrase Yeats. Parasite, not to be confused with the eponymous (and far superior) jet-black South Korean comedy – comes to us instead from Charles Band Land. Parasite (1982) has the plot ofContinue reading “Parasite”
Category Archives: Strange cinema
From Beyond
“Dripping with mucus and goo” is about as close as you’d get to an endorsement from the famously horror-averse, Roger Ebert (who actually liked Stuart Gordon’s companion piece, Re-Animator). And it’s a pretty fitting descriptor for one of the slimiest films ever made. From Beyond takes Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein into another dimension – literally, asContinue reading “From Beyond”
