A bum’s cocaine party is rudely interrupted by the falling body of a young woman. Her splattery demise is ruled a suicide but a well dressed junior detective wants to know more. A world weary not so junior detective wishes to call it a day but it seems the dead woman left a tape recorder … More The Merits of Sin: Psycho Scarecrow (1996) (Canada)
Season two of Baywatch Nights leaves a wave (ahem) of confusion in its wake (ahem ahem). But this is the kind of confusion I am deeply in love with. Baywatch, in its initial run, was a show about lifeguards and breasts. It was fine at being that. It also had David Hasselhoff. Knight Rider … More The Nights Will Never Be the Same, or Cocaine Fuels the Imagination: Baywatch Nights Part 1
Ted Vernon is a real piece of shit and, sadly, he’s also our film’s de facto hero. So strap yourself in for the Ted Vernon show and try not to fall asleep. I suggest taking a taser to your own genitals, but I’m a free thinker. An American soldier is sent to Russia to collect … More The Merits of Sin: Zombie Infection (2011) (Russia)
It always amazes me just how much fun I have with films made from scrapping the bottom of the barrel. Monstroid should never be considered entertainment. It’s boring, poorly filmed and has the acting talent of balsa wood that was left out in a thunderstorm. Yet, here I am ready to ramble on about it … More The Merits of Sin: Monstroid aka Monster aka It Came from the Lake aka The Beast from Beyond aka Monster, the Legend that Became a Terror aka Are You Still Reading This? (1980) (USA)
Belzebuth (2017) (Mexico) ***1/2 Shudder: Damn fine Satanic panic horror flick from Mexico lets ya know it’s not fucking around from its opening scene and proceeds to get goofier as it goes on (No. This is not a complaint). Child massacres, an excommunicated priest, an American Paranormal Forensics agent (ok) and a grieving police Lieutenant … More Two From Mexico: Belzebuth (2017) Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017)
An unhappily married young woman (in her defense, her husband is a pud with a bad temper) seeks comfort in the macho arms of some German dork with a motorcycle and leather jacket. Her Game Boy playing husband has his suspicions and begins to snoop through her things. He finds a photo of the other … More The Merits of Sin: Requiem Der Teufel (1993) (Germany)
Ming and Hsiao are two Hong Kong detectives and when a heavily drunk Ming is almost rundown by a car, he and his partner pursue. They follow the car to a house out in the middle of the forest and not only find the vehicle wrecked (obviously long ago) in the middle of the woods, … More The Merits of Sin: Possessed (1983) (Hong Kong)
