VIPCO THE UNTOLD STORY **** UK 2018 Dir: Jason Impey. 132 mins Rarely seen on camera, Vipco impresario Michael Lee is the star of Jason Impey’s engaging documentary about the UK video industry’s “Wild West” period in the 1980s. Lee’s honest reflections easily overshadow some dullish contextual analysis by UK…
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HAIL TO THE DEADITES **** Canada 2020 Dir: Steve Villeneuve. 79 mins Director Steve Villeneuve, who made the indie horror love letter documentary UNDER THE SCARES (2010), wears his EVIL DEAD-loving heart on his bloody sleeve with this unashamedly cuddly feature about the fanbase surrounding Sam Raimi’s original trilogy, complete…
TRACK: SEARCH FOR AUSTRALIA’S BIGFOOT *** Australia 2020 Dir: Attila Kaldy. 57 mins As a fan of well known documentaries like Blue Planet I enjoyed this one that is shot and narrated in much the same way. If Bigfoot really exists then chances are it’s gonna exist in the remote…
MOMO: THE MISSOURI MONSTER *** USA 2019 Dir: Seth Breedlove. 82 mins This is probably the slickest, most fun of prolific filmmaker Seth Breedlove’s features to date, following TERROR IN THE SKIES, THE MOTHMAN OF POINT PLEASANT, etc. and with more Mothman and Bell Witch-themed features in the pipeline. MOMO…
MAKING APES: THE ARTISTS WHO CHANGED FILM **** USA 2019 Dir: William Conlin. 87 mins The original PLANET OF THE APES is now over 50 years old and it has become easy to overlook what a game-changing benchmark it was, not just for genre cinema as a whole, but also…