Beyond the Black Rainbow

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If you’ve ever wanted to take an an acid trip without taking the drugs, Beyond the Black Rainbow might be a movie for you, as well as a safe alternative, even if it’s not a movie for anything else. A striking, dreamlike visual style with an ultra slow-burn pace and bold hypnotic colors saturating the screen are acid-trip elements… Continue reading

THE SUBSTANCE

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On her 50th birthday, faded celebrity Elizabeth Sparkle (Demi Moore) is fired from her long-running aerobics TV show, because, as her producer Harvey (Dennis Quaid) informs her, she’s “too old.” Devastated, she eventually… Continue reading

TOGETHER

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Along with The Ugly Stepsister, Together is easily one of the two best horror films of 2025. And while it’s one I felt compelled to write about–as a catharsis and to spread the word–it’s also one that’s difficult to review. As a movie that’s better off seen knowing little about it, I’ll do my best to both compel and recommend… Continue reading

The Dead Outside

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With real-life horrors of COVID19 and their lingering effects, can movies about pandemics ever be novel again?  (No pun intended.)  Hitting too close to home for many, with too much… Continue reading

CRAWL or DIE 2 – Sci-Fi Horror with Nicole Alonso Returns

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BackyardFilms is excited to announce the upcoming sequel(s) to their 2015 breakout horror feature, CRAWL or DIE (written and directed by acclaimed Indie director, Oklahoma Ward), starring actress and singer, Nicole Alonso… Continue reading

First Men (and a Woman) in the Moon: A Politically-Correct Sci-Fi Perspective

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Yes!  First Men in the Moon, to be factual and politically correct for the times, includes a woman too.  They just left her out of the title back in 1964–something they wouldn’t dare do 75 years years later, in 2021… Continue reading

The X from Outer Space

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“A boundless universe!  It’s perils!  It’s terrors!  The Earth, Moon, Mars…with the universe as the stage!  Future dreams realized!  Spectacles of the century!  In the sky, on land!  Breath-taking suspense!  Life-and-death struggles!  Mankind threatened by a deadly… Continue reading

HONEYMOON

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Some of the most disturbing moments in life are those when your spouse is having a moody reaction to something and you don’t know why.  He/she isn’t acting “normal,” and what the hell could it be?  “Is it something I… Continue reading

MONSTER HUNTER

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Sometimes, I want a movie with fast, frenetic action, in a strange, unfamiliar world, with danger at every turn, and huge friggin’ monsters.  Sometimes, that’s absolutely all I want–gigantic, fire-breathing beasts that shake the ground with every step, and roar like… Continue reading

THE DEADLY SPAWN

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There’s nothing like a good B-grade sci-fi/horror flick from the 80s!  Yes!  From bygone times comes the best in practical monster effects, no-holds-barred guts and gore, and a charm to it all that never gets old… Continue reading

MUJŌ – Chapter A: Da Introduction

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In June of 2019, I wrote about a sci-fi series in the works called MUJŌ (written, directed, and executive-produced by Steve Squall).  At that time, with only a short teaser trailer, I knew it was something special, and something… Continue reading

SHADOW PUPPETS

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Years ago, at a local Half Price bookstore, while looking through a vat of $2.00 DVDs (the ones they really want to get rid of), I happened upon a movie called Shadow Puppets.  From the title alone, I thought it… Continue reading

Salient Minus Ten Premieres on YouTube!

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“SALIENT MINUS TEN–the new sci-fi/horror short film from award-winning filmmaker Emma Dark–is a cerebral foray into the darker, more disturbing side of science fiction. Continue reading

THE VOID

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Something terrible is happening.  A dead body lies in a hallway, a black triangle is painted on a door, and a woman screams.  Running from the house, she is shot.  Doused with gasoline, while still alive, begging for her life, the woman is set afire… Continue reading

UNDERWATER

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What would it be like to work on a drilling station in the Mariana Trench, seven miles below the ocean surface, in the deepest place on Earth?  Or worse, what would it be like to work there when… Continue reading

MUJO: Creating an Epic Adventure

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Hailing all explorers of out-of-this-world cinema!  Space Jockey Reviews’ radar recently picked up transmissions hot off the intergalactic presses.  Shooting to top priority here at mission control is a new film in the works by director/writer Steve Squall, from Louisville, Kentucky… Continue reading

Thoughts and Theories I Had While Watching Stephen King’s IT (2017)

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With earplugs in hand, I went to watch Stephen King’s It (2017’s remake of the original 1990 cult classic – a fact that surprisingly a lot of people around me do not know!). I had been traumatized by the movie once when I was a child (not remembering much except for the creepy clown sneaking children into underground pipes)… Continue reading

Hellraiser vs. Event Horizon: Liberate Tutamet Ex Inferis

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I have read articles and participated in discussions comparing Event Horizon (1997) to Hellraiser (1988) and vice versa, more than a few times.  The similarities are obvious, although some say it’s like comparing the proverbial apples and oranges.  Some say the fact that Hellraiser came first… Continue reading

The Dark Tapes

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I always love a good found-footage horror film.  However, finding a good one is not so easy these days.  Since the first mainstream example in the genre–The Blair Witch Project in 1999–such a film with anything original and different to offer is about as easy as finding a new way to spell horror. Continue reading

Enter Nowhere

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Enter Nowhere (the supernatural thriller/mystery from director Jack Heller) is the story of three people who find themselves lost in the same unknown place, in a wooded area, near a ramshackle cabin in the woods.  Every attempt to escape the cabin, trekking in a seemingly straight line away from it, only leads back to it again… Continue reading

10 Cloverfield Lane

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Recently, on a weekend night at Walmart, in a one of those big, bargain movie bins (the one’s that have movies overflowing to the top, spilling onto the floor as you try to find the one you want), I found a bluray copy of 10 Cloverfield Lane. Continue reading

Peter Quill’s Awesome Mixtape

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WHEN I FIRST SAW the Guardians of the Galaxy trailer in the cinema a few weeks before its release, it seemed like a typical science fiction-slash-fantasy-superhero movie. My eye-rolling ceased halfway when “Hooked on a Feeling” by Blue Swede started… Continue reading

Crawl or Die

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About a month ago, I was in the Củ Chi district of Ho Chi Minh City, crawling through tunnels built by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.  Củ Chi is now a tourist area where anyone can experience… Continue reading