While Cocaine: One Man’s Seduction has both some unintended laughs and some effective serious moments, the movie doesn’t work overall either as an exercise in camp or as an effective portrayal of the dangers of drugs.

Although I did revert to form a little at the last minute by reviewing a Jesus Franco film:

The Belko Experiment (2017), in which unseen puppetmasters incite an epidemic of mass murder in a corporate office building…

Europa Report (2013), in which astronauts searching for life on Jupiter’s coolest moon find what they’re looking for…

Get Out (2017), in which meeting the parents is an even bigger nightmare than our hero was expecting…

Iron Doors (2010), in which not everything screwy that befalls one on April Fool’s Day is a prank…

Kong: Skull Island (2017), in which yet another “shared universe” meta-franchise sputters into life…

Mansion of the Living Dead (1982), in which Franco hears someone call Horror of the Zombies the worst of the Blind Dead movies and says, “Agarra mi cerveza“…

Night of the Tentacles (2012), in which the world’s most embarrassing heart attack leads to a pact with Satan even less carefully thought out than usual…

The Vampire’s Coffin (1958), in which Count Laszlo Lavud sees how city living suits him…

and…

Zombie A-Hole (2012), which commendably bears absolutely no resemblance to the movie you just imagined upon reading that title.
 
 
 

Although Society isn’t a perfect movie, it is almost certainly quite unlike any movie you’ve seen before. Especially its unforgettable ending.

Normally I applaud when any movie gets released on Blu-ray, but the recent announcement that Windows will be released on that format leaves me utterly bewildered. Is there really an audience for this?

Though it contains plenty of weirdness like a woman giving birth to a fully grown man, Xtro ultimately fails due to a script that contains both little story and little believable behavior by its characters.

There are enough reasons to explain why you’ve probably never heard of Kid Colter, a family movie that lacks enough spark to engage kids or their parents.

If you can find the rare uncut version, Fugitive Girls will prove to be a perfect mix of soft-core material and unintentional silliness.

The Dolph Lundgren actioner Command Performance is without doubt a rip-off of Die Hard, but it’s one of the better imitations out there.

New stuff at last:

Arrival (2016), in which talking to aliens is a lot harder when you don’t have a Universal Translator and they don’t watch “Galaxy Quest”…

The Crying Woman (1933), in which a native spook ushers in the first era of indigenous horror movie production in Mexico…

The House that Dripped Blood (1971), in which the rent is too damn high, however little the landlord is charging…

Magic (1978), in which dummies don’t have to be animate to scare the crap out of you…

Monster (1953), in which the Brainiac guy vomits the half-digested remains of every fright flick he’s ever seen back onto the screen…

Rogue One (2016), or Star Wars, Episode III.XCV…

Scream (1981), which is not the one you’re thinking of…

and…

The Vampire (1957), which, come to think of it, might also not be the one you’re thinking of.

Matthew Broderick trying to out-cute a chimpanzee? Meh. A contemporary updating of 80s sex comedies? No thank you.

William Castle, recycled cartoons and a brain in a jar? I am sooo there!

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PROJECT X (1968)

…in which the future of “the West” hangs in the balance while desperate attempts are made to restore a secret agent’s wiped memories: a process which involves a budget-conscious recreation of the 1960s and a little mad science…