"I don't consider myself homeless because a homeless man ain't got a home" -Tommy
Dark Days is a gripping documentary about the homeless population who used to live in the Amtrak tunnels under Manhattan before they were eventually chased out in the early 2000s. They managed to build a sort of village for those who had nothing but problems in life. Some of the dwellings they built were two levels tall with multiple rooms and were highly creative, even housing…
This is going to be less of a review and more of a reminder of some of my favorite segments featured here in George Carlin: Complaints & Grievances.
-Sending football fans to war to defeat the enemy with farts.
-Driving habits.
-Body parts.
-List of people who aught to be killed.
-Men's names.
-The ten commandments.
I tend to like George Carlin's later material, like this special the most because he morphed into a grumpy old man over the years making…
"No interviews for this film were taken under oath. Any admissions or accusations of illegal or otherwise nefarious activities mentioned in the following should not be considered legally binding."
Oh boy. What a way to start a documentary about a New York City dive bar.
I guess the disclaimer at the beginning of the film makes sense, as Siberia Bar seemed to epitomize the dive bar experience near Times Square. It was a place that tried to preserve the old,…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 31
The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs - Joe Bob's Beelzebub Bash - Film 1
Dougie is a naïve young boy who loves video games and the idea of Satan. On Halloween he starts to follow around a silent masked killer who he deems Satan and asks to be it's helper. What he thinks is all fun and games couldn't be further from the truth.
Satan's Little Helper has been on the…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 27
Scooby-Doo and the gang are in the Mystery Machine on their way to a Halloween movie festival when they see Gary Coleman hitchhiking on the side of the road and offer him a ride. As they drive on they encounter multiple situations in which the gang would usually find themselves in trouble but Coleman has answers to keep them out of harm's way. That is until they crash in front of a…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 12
September 18th, 2006. A couple, Katie and Micah, move into a nice little house in the suburbs of San Diego. However, Katie has been sensing some strange occurrences involving a haunting presence that was active during her younger years but had been dormant for a long time. So, Micah sets up a camera to record what happens in the house while they sleep. This is an account of the phenomena the couple…
31 DAYS OF HORROR 2024 - Film 6
"All I know about movie trilogies is that in the third one all bets are off."
After narrowly escaping death in California and Ohio at the hands of masked killers, Sidney Prescott relocates to the rural hills of Monterey, CA, living in a secure compound. She now works from home as a phone-based women’s crisis counselor under the alias "Laura." When the murder of a familiar face occurs, the survivors of the…
The House That Freddy Built is a short twenty-two minute long documentary about the Nightmare on Elm Street franchise and it's impact on New Line Cinema as well as the horror genre. It seems the consensus of the cast, crew, and producers interviewed in this documentary agree with me about on the opinion that A Nightmare on Elm Street II was a far inferior sequel to A Nightmare on Elm Street III. I also learned that I agree with original…
Creep (2004) is a British horror film that starts with an intriguing premise. Kate, played by Franka Potente, leaves a fancy party with the intent of using her V.I.P. pass to meet George Clooney. As she heads to the nearest subway station for the last train to “Clooney town,” she indulges a bit too much with the bottle and falls asleep on the platform. When she wakes up, she finds herself locked in the station. What begins as a minor…
Jess joins Greg and his friends on his sailboat on a seemingly normal sunny day. During the journey, a sudden storm sets in, destroying the boat. Floating on its capsized bottom side, their situation looks dire, but it doesn't take long until a cruise ship named Aeolus passes by, and they climb onboard. They quickly discover that it is a very old ship with no one onboard. Well... almost...
WOW!!! THIS IS HOW YOU DO IT!!!
Triangle is one of…
Red River, Tennessee, 1817. John Bell is a landowner and businessman who falls afoul to a local woman named Kate Batts over a land deal and she subsequently curses Bell and his family. Everyone in town believes ol' Kate Batts to be a witch so the Bells take it very seriously. Fast forward to today and that family's plight just may well save a modern day family from one of it's own.
An American Haunting is loosely based on the…
Real Amityville Horror can either be a bust or a quick one-hour injection of knowledge. I feel like there isn't much left that I don't know about the DeFeo murders or the supposed Lutz haunting that followed but I still watch these documentaries every time I stumble upon them. It features interview snippets with everyone you'd expect including Ronald DeFeo in prison, but if you're someone who has seen one of two of the many documentaries about this before you…