Strange cinema – Page 12 – Really Awful Movies

Making Contact aka Joey

Despite there being a demonic ventriloquist in Making Contact, nobody quips, “you’d be angry too if you had a hand up your butt.” Lost opportunity. Despite its title, Making Contact is not an alien move. That’s just one of the many, many odd things about this one. Youngster Joey loses his father, and we, theContinue reading “Making Contact aka Joey”

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”