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Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Infidel: Action and Reaction, by Tyler Smith The Devil All the Time: A Fountain Flowing for the Soul Unclean, by David Bax I Am Woman: Ain’t...
Unlike some films (here’s looking at you, The Usual Suspects), Frailty holds up very well on a second viewing, probably because there’s more to it than just the twist, like the honest depiction of emotional abuse and the culmination of the film’s cynical...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 703: How Will Things Change? Home Video Hovel: Tales from the Darkside, by David Bax Criterion Prediction #258: In Our Time, by Alexander Miller I...
Almost 50 years after its release, why is The Exorcist such an enduring, powerful horror film? I am obviously the first to ever ask this question about this cinematic classic, so allow me to answer: the time it takes to lay out...
Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Episode 702: Are TV Movies Movies? Movie Meltdown: I Am All the Star Wars Fans I Do Movies Badly: Near Dark Feels Good Man: Froggy Bottom,...
Chelsea Bennington and Rick Guzman, who started the Spooky Doings improv group that in turn inspired the titular podcast, join I Do Movies Badly to talk about the advent of their horror-themed improv comedy, how their religious upbringings have influenced their moviegoing, and share...
The journey for the perfect metaphor ends with Near Dark, a wonderfully directed film that subverts the expectations of the Western genre, but that also signals that the “Others” are vile, bloodthirsty creatures whose influence can only be overcome by blood transfusion....
When Joel Schumacher took over directing The Lost Boys, he made some big changes to the initial idea including making the vampires older, making them sexier, and, by extension, making our heteronormative, boring suburban family protagonists the “others.” Read Alcy Leyva’s “30 Years...
Happy 200th episode to and from I Do Movies Badly! But enough mushy stuff. Let’s talk about the original Fright Night, a film that seems to be find its queer coded vampire character infinitely more fascinating than the other characters but one that also...
Terry Mesnard of Gayly Dreadful brings some new blood (pardon the pun) to I Do Movies Badly to discuss films of the Queer Vampire Cycle. Terry talks about how his love for horror started with A Nightmare on Elm Street and its drag villain, explores how...