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Happy Birthday Luigi Cozzi! HERCULES (1983), its Sequel (and the Cozzi Canon)
Luigi Cozzi is 72 years.... young today. Though he's not made a film in some time, how nice is it he's lived to see his most fertile period become immortalized, his place in the pantheon of trash...
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Til Human Voices Wake Us: THE BERMUDA DEPTHS (1978)
Hurricane Dorian spiraled over the Bahamas over Labor Day as I watched the ABC Friday Night Movie THE BERMUDA DEPTHS (1978) via Warner Archive DVD-R. Its crystal blue skies and clear crystal water,...
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Crazy, Cool, and Catty Sue Cabot: SORORITY GIRL (1957), MACHINE-GUN KELLY (1958)
Raise the roof! Shout Factory TV via Prime have dislodged some of the long buried Corman gems from the late-50s beatnik Corman AIP days wedged up in the ceiling beams, including three of his very best:...
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Finger the Moon and Quaff thy Laudanum: GOTHIC (1986)
Readers know I look askance upon adoring fetishistic biopics, the auteur often covertly trying to align their own stars with their heroes whether its conscious or not, and in the process making, as...
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Creature Triple Feature I: SOMETHING CREEPING IN THE DARK + HOUSE ON HAUNTED...
Good evening friends of the creeping floor! October is halfway done. Over the next ten days leading up to Halloween, Acidemic will be presenting several curated double and triple features of films...
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Creature double feature (Night 2): THE UNDEAD, VOODOO WOMAN
The AIP graveyard is alive with beatnik dancing thanks to ShoutTV via Prime. Right now they're showing both parts of a 1957 AIP "Made just for Halloween" double bill: THE UNDEAD and VOODOO WOMAN....
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Creature Double Feature Night 3: THE NIGHTMARE, INFERNO
Here's a weird, unusual and very creepy double feature that explores dream logic and the very real terrors of sleep paralysis. Some people have it so bad they're as afraid to go to sleep as the kids on...
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Creature Double Feature Night 4: BAFFLED! (1972); CITIY OF THE LIVING DEAD...
Tonight, here's an oddball pairing of films (currently on Prime) about oddball couples investigating strange happenings together based on an eerie and unexpected premonition that strikes one of them...
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Creature Double Feature Night 5: DOLLS, THE MONSTER SQUAD, + Trilogy of...
Here's a two 1/3 films for the whole family, rich with scary dolls and vampire brides, waiting right there on Prime, in glorious HD. And by family, I don't mean in a sticky, irritating way where the...
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Creature Double Feature Night 6: SEVEN DEATHS IN THE CAT'S EYE (1973), THE...
 Tonight, a double feature of prime Prime old dark house thrillers, each set rollicking over gloomy Gothic estates with their own secret chambers to the burial grounds, tombs with cats, gems and vows...
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Creature Triple Feature Night 7: ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS; CALTIKI, THE...
It's a rainy drab stuffy Sunday here in Manhattan, but with the comforting chill of night comes the chance to once more delve into Prime's bottomless cesspool. Tonight, a trio of monster classics, each...
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Creature Double Feature Night 8: THE BRAIN THAT COULDN'T DIE (1962), SPIDER...
When it comes to trashy black and white films from the 60s, thanks to The Addams Family and The Muensters, as well as Dr. Shock, Ghoulardi and all the other local TV monster movie hosts across the...
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Creature Double Feature Night 9: PROM NIGHT 2: HELLO MARY LOU, WAXWORK
              Tonight - Two teenager-centric but effects-driven gems of the realm... okay maybe cracked plastic tiaras and cheap wax exhibits, but don't turn your back on them - because...
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Creature Double Feature Night 10 (Halloween!): TROLL 2, TOP OF THE FOOD CHAIN...
Surprise! It's a soggy, spring-like Halloween today, and thus the conclusion, Night 10, of our grand Creature Double Feature 10 Day Marathon is best spent couch-ways. Feel free to scroll back and...
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Creature Double Feature Bonus!: BEYOND THE DOOR, VAMPYRES
It's Halloween! We made it, and for the millions or one of you who've been following this strange double feature nightly Prime journey, or even just picking and choosing and chuckling, now we've come...
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Holiday Hide-out. Your Charlie's Angels WTF Reader.
Is my credibility as an haughty film studies intellectual harpooned by my open-air breeching love for Charlie's Angels? And Kristen Stewart? Readers of the blog know I love them both, yet have no...
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Sandahl Bergman's SHE (1984) comes to Blu-ray, Swingin'
Finally the great "SHE" starring Sandahl Bergman comes to Blu-ray in a flawless edition from Kino, released the other week. The Image and Sound are sublime, it's never looked better, and with a great...
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Best of 2019
It's all over, man, the year, the decade (if you're counting wrong), the world, the country, the rootin' and even the tootin'. All that's left are echoes, and them movies - and if Time thinks they get...
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Best Films of the "Decade": 2010-2019
It's maybe a strange accident all the films on this list are American (save one), but I doubt it. American flag tweet!PS- I use quotes for as my editor sig other notes, a real decade would end next...
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Acidemic's Collected CinemArchetypes: Your Guide to Jungian Psycho-cinematic...
By special request, to round them up for easy reference. Here is Acidemic's Tarot Deck of CinemArchetypes, a guide to analyzing cinema and its connection to your own reality and life via Jungian...
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