Category: Comedy

“We’ve all got our car payments”: What We Lose for Money in DREAMLAND

On By C.H. NewellIn 2020, Bruce McDonald, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Film, Horror, Juliette Lewis, Stephen McHattie, Tony BurgessLeave a comment

I saved the world today. Everybody's happy now.

INCREDIBLE VIOLENCE: The Thin Violent Capitalist Line Between Horror & Porn

On By C.H. NewellIn 2019, Comedy, Erin Mick, Film, G. Patrick Condon, Horror, M.J. Kehler, Metafiction, Slasher, Stephen Lush, Stephen Oates1 Comment

A horror film that eviscerates horror, film making, and the entertainment industry's exploitation of women.

Modern Loneliness and Violent Female Competition in HOMEWRECKER

On By C.H. NewellIn 2019, Alex Essoe, Comedy, Fantastic Fest, Film, Film Festival, Horror, Precious Chong, Zach GayneLeave a comment

Precious Chong and Alex Essoe go head-to-head in a dark satire of gender roles and postmodern loneliness.

The Horrors of Class Struggle and Neoliberal Depravity in SATANIC PANIC

On By C.H. NewellIn Chelsea Stardust, Comedy, Film, Grady Hendrix, Hayley Griffith, Horror, Marxism, Rebecca RomijnLeave a comment

Chelsea Stardust uses Satanic horror as a vessel for capitalist satire in her latest film

TYREL: Relative Terror in Black/White

On By C.H. NewellIn 2018, Christopher Abbott, Comedy, Drama, Film, Jason Mitchell, Michael Cera, Racism, Reg E. Cathey, Sebastián SilvaLeave a comment

TYREL explores how seemingly harmless behaviour, to white people, is not always so for people of colour.

The Horrors of Homelessness in STREET TRASH

On By C.H. NewellIn 1987, Comedy, Film, Gore, Horror, Horror Comedy, Jim Muro, UrbanismLeave a comment

STREET TRASH is just a B-movie with nothing to say. Or, maybe it says a lot of things about NYC in the 1980s. Maybe?

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 8: “I Am the Future”

On By C.H. NewellIn Chris Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Happy!, Patton Oswalt, Season 1, Season Finale, SyfyLeave a comment

Happy and Nick find clues to taking them further towards Hailey, finding terrifying things at the end of their journey.

Happy! – Season 1, Episode 5: “Hot Sauce? White Sauce?”

On By C.H. NewellIn Christopher Meloni, Comedy, Crime, Happy!, Medina Senghore, Patton Oswalt, Season 1, SyfyLeave a comment

Nick goes to see Amanda. Meredith receives a message from Blue. Smoothie meets Hailey and the other children.