Instruments of Evil

A shape-shifting Norse god deploys musical demons to plague prairie earthlings. Oh no, no that again. In Instruments of Evil, the curse of the Dark Viking haunts the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, where this micro-budget was lovingly filmed (sans government support, but with corporate boosting via the likes of Benjamin Moore Paints and a brewery whose nameContinue reading “Instruments of Evil”

Chillerama

A doddering projectionist declares “nobody cares for magic anymore” in Chillerama, this paean to the movie drive-in, a phenomenon which debuted in 1933 for 25 cents a car in Camden New Jersey, across the river from Philadelphia. It’s a film meant to conjure up the magic of the experience, which to horror fans meant the 70s, chronicledContinue reading “Chillerama”