At a running time of only 68 minutes, this low-budget film from 1940 wasted no time with plot setup, so we’ll waste none of yours. A text card after the opening credits of The Devil Bat revealed the backstory for the film. The town’s personable scent scientist and (apparently) medical…
Among the dumbest things we’ve seen you humans do are to go down into that dark basement where the noises are coming from, split the group up in order navigate those woods alone, and give a Nazi zombie CPR. That last one is new on our list. Before watching Dead…
The SML minions were sitting around the Tesla coil the other day wondering what life would look like if the Walking Dead took place in the same town as Zombieland and Warm Bodies. We rooted around in the coffins and found $5.64 cents toward making our own low-budget parody film.…
What are your favorite horror tropes? Hapless hazardous waste drivers who don’t know how to text and drive? College kids taking a long weekend at some cousin’s cabin on a lake? Mostly naked sorority girls sunning on the docks and making casual sexual passes at each other? 80s-style music and…
Question: Who would be the greatest military genius of all time? Answer: The man who can piece together chunks of dead criminals—Frankenstein. The films starts in a pseudo-documentary/found footage style, with a “live” cameraman and intentionally clumsy cuts, as WWII-era Russian troops are moving closer to the enemy in a…
Insidious: Chapter 3 premieres on Friday and is sure to be the biggest horror film of the summer. The story may be a prequel to the previous films, but sometimes you have to move forward in time to move backward chronologically. Distort your sense of time, space, and reality by…
The new horror film, It Follows, starts with a 20-something girl running for her life in some affluent suburbs during the early post-dawn hours. She sees something. It’s following her, hence, the title of the movie. But, exactly what is a mystery. People ask the distraught girl “Are you okay?” as…
Gather up any strong feelings you have about reality shows, docu-dramas, shaky camera techniques, and mockumentaries. Now take a big, violent bite out of them, drain them of all their exasperating tendencies, toss them into the back yard, and call your familiar to clean up behind you. What We Do…
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Featuring movie essays from the Head Monsters of SML and others that explore our love for horror cinema! Published by the Collinsport Historical Society.
