Originally posted on 10/6/11   Everybody likes a good origin story, and if you're a fan of Three Finger, Saw-Tooth, and One-Eye, then WRONG TURN 4 (2011)--subtitled "Bloody Beginnings"--could be the prequel of your dreams.  The rousing pretitles sequence finds our three inbred hillbilly-cannibal brothers as rambuctious young 'uns who are already the most dangerous inmates in the asylum.  They don't stay locked in their cell for long, though, and once they've escaped and let all the other loonies out as well, the hapless asylum staff are in for a day of total bedlam clim ..read more

  Originally posted on 9/23/09   White water rafting finally makes its first appearance in a WRONG TURN movie! One of the major reasons why city folk venture into crazy-hillbilly country (in the movies, anyway) is their insatiable urge, a la DELIVERANCE, to go white water rafting in the most remote locations possible. That way, they can be stalked and murdered by the invariably inbred and psychotic local yokels until the last of them finally decide to fight back. At least, that's how it usually goes. In the case of WRONG TURN 3: LEFT FOR DEAD (2009), the key elements for this kind ..read more

  (Blu-Ray comments by Ian Friedman. Originally posted on 9/30/09.)   A raucous, tasteless, over-the-top, unapologetically schlocky gorefest--not quite what I'd call the first movie in this series, but that description fits the sequel, WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END (2007), like a bloody glove. Once I stopped worrying about how it compared to the previous film and realized that this is pure exploitation filmmaking of the sincerest kind, I allowed first-time director Joe Lynch and his enthusiastic cast to carry me away on a wave of pure giddy Monster Kid fun. Kimberly Caldwell, who plays h ..read more

  (Blu-Ray comments by Ian Friedman. Originally posted on 9/30/09.)   When in tarnation are them thar city folks gonna learn to stay out'n them thar woods? In WRONG TURN (2003), six tenderfeet--two camping couples plus a recently-dumped girlfriend named Jessie (Eliza Dushku) and a stranger named Chris (Desmond Harrington) who just plowed his Mustang into their minivan on a dirt road and stranded them all in the deep middle of Nowhere, West Virginia--find out the hard way that they should've stayed home that week. This mishmash of elements from the likes of TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE ..read more

(Blu-Ray comments by Ian Friedman. Originally posted on 10/21/10.)) Seeing the tense road thriller KALIFORNIA (1993) shortly after it first came out is the reason that I never viewed Brad Pitt as just another pretty-boy actor.  This was the one of the first movies I ever saw him in, and his character, a sleazy, parole-jumping serial killer named Early Grayce, is about as unglamorous as you can get.  David Duchovny, trying to get a film career off the ground just as "The X-Files" began to take off, plays a psychology grad student named Brian Kessler who's writing a book about ser ..read more

  Originally posted on 9/26/10   I watched the first episode of "Family Guy", hated it, and never tuned in again.  So when I heard that creator Seth MacFarlane had spun off one of the characters from that show into his own series, "The Cleveland Show", I wasn't exactly thrilled.  But about halfway through the first disc of THE CLEVELAND SHOW: THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE, I had to admit that, despite its faults, I was actually enjoying it. "The Cleveland Show" breezily mocks the familiar stereotypical sitcom style, complete with a saccharine opening theme song by Walter Murphy ..read more

  Originally posted on 12/2/11   Confession time again: this is my first Uwe Boll movie.  Of course, I've heard a lot about the widely-reviled director on IMDb and other film-related forums, and have been curious to see a sample of his work that's supposed to be so inept.  So now that I've watched IN THE NAME OF THE KING 2: TWO WORLDS (2011), I have to say--yeah, it's pretty bad.  But this sword-and-sorcery yarn is bearable as a mildly entertaining direct-to-DVD time waster if you watch it with absolutely no expectations whatsoever. I'm still not exactly sure what i ..read more

  Originally posted on 5/9/10   Here's a fun idea--take the classic "Alice in Wonderland" story and update it by adding a bunch of gangsters, whores, junkies, and other assorted freaks, and cleverly alter the title (yet again) to MALICE IN WONDERLAND (2009). Only it really isn't such a fun idea after all, when you find yourself trying to sit through the resulting mess without hurling a copy of Lewis Carroll's original novel through the TV screen. In this version, Alice Dodgson (a bland Maggie Grace, "Lost", TAKEN, THE FOG) is a poor little billionaire's daughter from New York fleein ..read more

This King Arthur movie has some great battle scenes. But a couple of not-so-great extras. One's just chillin' out with an arrow sticking out of his chest. When his buddy decides it's time to take a dive, he plops down too.  Hard to get good help these days! Originally posted on 4/26/18 I neither own nor claim any rights to this material.  Just having some fun with it.  Thanks for watching ..read more

Greg Brady got caught smoking a cigarette in the episode "Where There's Smoke..." Of course, that was just Barry Williams going by the script. But that's nothing compared to the time he was stoned on weed...for real...during a scene! It seems some visiting friends got Barry high once on his day off from filming. But wouldn't you know it--he got called in to do a scene. He starts it off by tripping over his bicycle pump. And then he doesn't know what to do with himself. ...grinning like a loon... ...and looking at "Cindy" like she had two heads.  Better stick to cigarettes, Greg ..read more