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New month, new horror recommendations from Deep Cuts Rising. This installment features five selections reflecting the month of August 2024.

Regardless of how they came to be here, or what they’re about, these past movies can generally be considered overlooked, forgotten or unknown.

This month’s offerings include a horror take on a classic fairy tale, a creature-feature, and more.

Dead Kids (1981)

Dead Kids a.k.a. Strange Behavior (1981)

Directed by Michael Laughlin.

While College Colors Day (August 30) is a time to be proud of your alma mater, the students and faculty of Galesburg University likely feel less spirited after the events of Dead Kids. In this sci-fi/horror chiller, college experiments on a Midwestern community’s young people result in murder. Several, in fact. The guinea pigs’ homicidal impulses amount to a few rather creepy sequences in this “bad science” slasher.

Dead Kids, also known as Strange Behavior, is...

Deadpool & Wolverine is finally out, and Marvel fans are getting what they deserved. The Ryan Reynolds-Hugh Jackman starrer came with huge expectations to give the franchise a face lift after a few failures in 2023. With its opening box office journey, the MCU flick has done just that, and is looking to continue its dream run in the coming weeks.

A still from Deadpool and Wolverine (image credit: Marvel)

While the initial reactions to the film would be extremely heartening, actor Jamie Lee Curtis could earn the wrath of Kevin Feige for her brutal response to the franchise. When quizzed during an interview about which film phase Marvel was currently on, Curtis showed her instinctive wit with an epic reply.

Jamie Lee Curtis Takes a Scathing Dig At The MCU Amidst Deadpool & Wolverine’s Dream Weekend

It looks like Kevin Feige and Marvel are well on their way to seeing better days.

It’s not wholly clear how much Filipino filmmaker Mikhail Red wants his latest thriller, “Arisaka,” to be more than a faithful retread of the kind of lean B-movie that used to star Sylvester Stallone and, more latterly, reinvigorated Liam Neeson’s career. And it’s also not clear why he would nurse such aspirations: It’s the very competence of the action sequences (some dodgy CG arterial blood spray aside) and the strict adherence to the gritty actioner playbook that leave a faintly sour taste when the film attempts even the mildest commentary on real-world issues.

. Her presence, plus Red’s rising profile following 2019’s “Dead Kids,” the first Philippine Netflix film, should guarantee a degree of local success for the project. But its relative blandness makes it a harder sell anywhere its survival-meets-vengeance hero’s journey feels like a well-trodden path. Which is to say, almost everywhere.

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Director, producer and screenwriter Michael Laughlin, whose credits include Two-Lane Blacktop, Town & Country and Strange Behavior, died on October 20th at the age of 82.

Laughlin succumbed to complications related to Covid-19 and passed in his residence in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Michael Stoddard Laughlin was born in 1938 and brought up in Minonk, Illinois. Laughlin played basketball at Stanford University, later graduating from Principia College in 1960.

Shortly after, he moved to London where he started his career as a film producer. He worked on projects like The Whispers and 1968’s Joanna directed by Michael Sarne. Laughlin married French actress Leslie Caron during his time in Europe. They divorced in 1980.

In the ’70s, Laughlin helped produce the Monte Hellman-directed cult classic Two-Lane Blacktop, starring James Taylor. In 2012, the Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the United States National Film Registry as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

Other credits include 1981’s Strange Behaviors,...

“In Their World, Adults Are Not Allowed… To Live.” So runs the chilling tagline for the 1984 cult classic horror Children of the Corn, based on the short story by horror maestro Stephen King. Set in an agricultural town in Nebraska, the film tells the story of 12-year-old Isaac, a real little charmer who indoctrinates the local children into a religious cult that slaughters anyone over 18! The film, which cost under $1million to make, was a smash hit and spawned a horror franchise. To celebrate the release of a lavish Arrow Limited Edition box set of the trilogy, including the original film in Ultra High Definition, here’s a round-up of some other horror films featuring problematic pint-sizers which you won’t want to turn your back on for a moment…

Village of the Damned (1960)

Based on the famous sci-fi novel by John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos, this is the mother of all killer kids films,...

Jack Antonoff has achieved a rarified ubiquity for a songwriter-producer. You can measure his prominence in Grammy Awards (five) and, to a certain extent, critics lists and charts, though for someone technically working behind the scenes, the best proof might just be the memes. Like this scrappy photoshop job of Lorde telling the Taylor Swift Evermore cover, “Mom said it’s my turn with the Jack Antonoff.” Or, the TikTok of three men tossing a child back-and-forth, which one Twitter user captioned, “Lorde, Clairo & Phoebe Bridgers passing around the Jack Antonoff.

Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers have released a new song, “Stop Making This Hurt,” which will appear on the group’s next album, Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night, out July 30th via RCA Records.

The track is a boisterous pop-rock tune led by punchy piano, rich horn stabs, and sliced through with sparkling synths. The chorus is classic Antonoff, a giant shout-along as he belts, “Stop making this hurt/Say goodbye like you mean it!”

“Stop Making This Hurt” arrives with a music video as well, directed by Carlotta Kohl.

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Netflix’s catalog contains the most diverse selection of movies and TV shows available on any streaming service. Comedies, dramas, thrillers, romances, action: Netflix has it all. And one section of Netflix’s catalog often underrated my most is the Asian films section.

There are so many talented Asian actors, directors, producers, and writers, and there’s no reason not to experience the classics available on Netflix right now. So today, I want to tell you about 7 Asian films you need to watch.

But before we talk about those, let’s talk about geo-blocking. Geo-blocking restricts the content you’re allowed to watch due to your geographical location—not cool. Some of the movies I’m listing may only be available in the United States or United Kingdom, so if you want to watch all of these, you may need to bypass geo-blocking.

With something like a Netflix Vpn,...

Several years after unleashing clever zombies with an appetite for brains in The Return of the Living Dead, Dan O'Bannon turned his attention to H.P. Lovecraft with The Resurrected, coming to home media in high definition on September 12th, and we've been provided with three Blu-ray copies to give away to lucky Daily Dead readers.

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Several years after unleashing clever zombies in The Return of the Living Dead, Dan O'Bannon turned his attention to H.P. Lovecraft with The Resurrected, coming to Blu-ray on September 12th with a final list of bonus features that have just been revealed by Scream Factory:

Press Release: Loyal fans of visionary writer/director Dan O’Bannon (The Return of the Living Dead) know well the terrifying thriller from his 1991 cult classic The Resurrected, based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft. The film stars John Terry (Zodiac, Full Metal Jacket), Jane Sibbett (Arrival II), Chris Sarandon (Fright Night), Laurie Briscoe (Breaking Point) and Robert Romanus (Fast Times at Ridgemont High). On September 12, 2017,Scream Factory™ Home Entertainment is proud to presentTHE Resurrected on home entertainment shelves. Available for the first time on Blu-ray™, this definitive release features new 2K transfer, interviews and revealing extras. A must-have for movie collectors, horror enthusiasts and loyal fans,...

Long live Michael Laughlin. Two years after he released one of my favorite early ‘80s oddities, Strange Behavior (I wrote about it here), he was back to unleash the next chapter in a proposed ‘Strange’ trilogy, Strange Invaders (1983). And while the former is a tribute to Mad Scientist films of the ‘50s via an updated Slasher take, the latter tips its fedora to the great Alien Invasion films of the same era. It may not reach the same dizzyingly weird heights, but Strange Invaders is an affectionate romp that captures the feel of those bygone drive-in classics and solidifies Laughlin’s unique voice.

A co-production between Emi Films and Lone Wolf McQuade Associates, Strange Invaders was released by Orion Pictures in mid September stateside to positive reviews and lackluster box office. Returning only a quarter of its $5 million plus budget, this was the Way of the Laughlin – everyone liked his movies,...

As the ‘60s gave way to the ‘70s, vampires on film were stuck in a rut of crumbling castles and cotton candy cobwebs. It was time for an update; to rid the screen of the stagecoaches and street lamps. It was time for Count Yorga, Vampire (1970), a fun little romp brought into the modern age by a world class turn from Robert Quarry as the titular bloodsucker.

Yorga was released by American International Pictures (we’re back in Aip territory – and it’s a glorious place to be) in June stateside, with a rollout around the world shortly thereafter. But that wasn’t the easiest thing to do; the filmmakers had to submit Yorga a few times to the MPAA to achieve their desired rating – a Gp (equivalent to a PG at the time), which they eventually received. And wouldn’t you know it? The film was very successful, especially on the drive-in circuit.

1978 cast a long shadow in the world of horror. From Dawn of the Dead to Halloween, the landscape was abundant with everything from the socially relevant to the singularly terrifying, from superior remakes (Invasion of the Body Snatchers) to quirky haunted houses (The Evil). And then there’s the red headed stepchild that no one talks about: Brian DePalma’s The Fury. Frenetic, action packed, and gruesome, The Fury never gets the love from even most DePalma fanatics. What a shame – it’s never less than entertaining, and at its best showcases the director’s mesmerizing visual touch.

Released in March by Twentieth Century Fox, The Fury made $24 million against its $5.5 million budget. That’s good green, folks, and DePalma received favorable reviews, still basking in a critical glow left over from his previous effort, Carrie (’76). So why is it so easily dismissed, ranked along the lines of efforts like Wise Guys,...

After attending game 3 of the NBA Finals at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Justin Bieber was seen throwing a punch at a man outside a hotel. The altercation took place shortly after 11 p.m., according to TMZ (which has a short video of the scuffle). The Cleveland police tells People they "did not respond for a fight." Related Video: The Truth Behind Justin Bieber's Strange Behavior Bieber - whose rep did not immediately respond to a request for comment - also didn't appear to be too shaken up by the incident. According to sightings on social media, the...

Shock looks at 10 films where man is the guinea pig. Back in the day, pretty much every pill, ointment and serum was tried and tested on cells and animals grown in labs but things are a changing and more drug trials than people care to admit have been or are being performed on us…

The post Lab Rat Horror! 10 Films Featuring Human Experiments appeared first on Shock Till You Drop.

Strange Behavior. What an apt title for this film. Released in 1981, Aka Dead Kids, Strange Behavior is a unique mash up of a popular (at the time) sub-genre and one long forgotten – the Slasher and The Mad Scientist. For fans of either, it provides a weird, loving tribute to the latter while quietly etching a place for itself in the former. A lot of horror lovers missed the boat on this one at the time of its release, which is strange behavior, indeed.

Given a limited release in October by World Northal stateside, Strange Behavior impressed many critics at the time with its ethereal quality and 50’s throwback feel, but audiences really never got a chance to see it until released on video the following year. And even then, it never picked up steam with the horror crowd. Which is quite sad, as the film still plays as a creepy,...

Hemdale became one of the largest indie studios of the 80s with films like The Terminator and Platoon. Ryan charts its turbulent history...

When Platoon won four Oscars in 1987, it marked not only a new chapter in Oliver Stone's career as a filmmaker, but also the end of a decade-long battle. Since the 1970s, Stone had been struggling to make his harrowing account of the horrors he'd seen firsthand as a soldier in the Vietnam conflict, but was famously turned down by every major studio in Hollywood.

Platoon, and Stone, finally found sanctuary at a small independent studio with a grand-sounding name: the Hemdale Film Corporation. It was Hemdale, and its co-founder John Daly, that had taken a chance on Stone, and when Platoon came out in 1986, the gamble proved to be a shrewd one: its $6m investment was covered by the first month's ticket sales, and the film...

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Picking out the lamest video nasties is not the hardest thing in the world to do. In fact, looking down the list of the 72 banned films, there is an embarrassment of riches. For every Cannibal Holocaust, there is a Terror Eyes; for every Last House on the Left, there is Human Experiments.

It is amazing to think that a bunch of exploitative, distasteful horror movies were so feared by the British establishment back in the early 1980s. In fact, they shot themselves in the foot when they made a list of 72 movies that were deemed to be too disgusting for the British public to feast their eyes upon. They made cult collector’s items out of movies that would never have gained any attention had they not been banned.

The video nasty black market that operated between the 1980s and 1990s venerated banned films and, for example,...

There's some serious partying going on one late October evening in a remote area outside of Toronto. From a distance, a fire pit's glow cascades over the area. Loud music interrupts the midnight silence. Clanging beer bottles and glasses contribute to the festive atmosphere. Male voices can be heard and so can .... growling?

This is no human get-together. Mere steps away, a feral pack of werewolves is celebrating merrily around the charred body of a victim as it roasts on a spit. The werewolf predators sit on tree stumps as they rip into their human meal and take swigs of alcohol. A tent stands in the background next to a large table. But the true showstopper on-site is a throne with deer bones adorning the top.

All of a sudden, alpha werewolf Connor (Jason Momoa) slowly stands up from his crouched position, cocks his head and looks around. All the...

Summer is officially right around the corner, which means horror DVD and Blu-rays are starting to heat up as well. This week, we’ve got several cult classics hitting high definition for the first time, another special edition set of the first three seasons of The Walking Dead,and the recent RoboCop reboot directed by Jose Padilha and starring Joel Kinnaman.

As if that wasn’t enough, there’s also a special Doctor Who David Tennant-themed collection being released, several indie creature features and we’re finally seeing the official arrival of the Video Nasties documentaries stateside on Tuesday. Check out all the horror and sci-fi fun you can add to your home collections this week below!

Spotlight Titles:

Death Bed: The Bed That Eats (Cult Epics, Blu-ray)

Prepare yourselves… The strangest bedtime story ever told! Cult Epics brings you Death Bed, George Barry’s uniquely weird journey through a world of wind demons,...

If you’ve seen the fabulously entertaining Ozploitation documentary Not Quite Hollywood — which tracks the rise of Down Under genre films in the ’70s and ’80s — then you will be familiar with producer and Quentin Tarantino favorite Antony I. Ginnane, the so-called “Roger Corman of Australia” whose output includes the horror movies Patrick, Dead Kids, and Thirst. “But how can I learn more about these films?” I pretend to hear you cry. Well, good news! This month, Severin Films is releasing all three terror flicks in Blu-ray/DVD combo packs (as well as the self-explanatory DVD, Ozploitation Trailer Explosion) which...

I'm not sure what it is about Aussie horror, but I love almost all of it. And I certainly love the three movies that Severin Films has announced to Blu-ray later this year. Those looking to junk their DVD editions of Patrick, Thirst, and Dead Kids (aka Strange Behavior) can rejoice!

From the Press Release:

The original killer in a coma classic Patrick hits Blu-ray from Severin Films on 3/11/14

Aussie horror favorites Thirst & Dead Kids will also be issued in Blu/DVD Combos

In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s while films like My Brilliant Career and Breaker Morant were putting Australia’s ‘New Wave’ on the map, a depraved generation of young Aussie filmmakers was putting a very different kind of movie on screens. Three ‘Ozploitation’ horrors, Patrick, Dead Kids & Thirst, will have their Blu-ray debut from Severin Films, while their sub-label Intervision will issue the definitive compilation Ozploitation Trailer Explosion.

With so many cult titles from the Eighties and Nineties making their way to Blu-ray of late, it shouldn’t be too surprising to see a few more obscure titles also getting a digital upgrade. For example, the 1980 fright flick The Unseen. Any of you seen it?

Can’t say I’ve ever seen The Unseen. Good thing Scorpion Releasing will be putting it out on Blu-ray August 13th so I can find out what I’ve been missing.

Synopsis:

Freelance reporter Jennifer and her two friends, Karen and Vicki, accept an invitation for cheap room and board in a large farmhouse offered by a friendly, but shady museum owner named Ernest Keller since all the motels in and around town are booked for a holiday parade fair Jennifer is covering. But unknown to the women, some unseen "thing" has been living in the basement of the house for over...

Amanda’s at it again! This time, the former Nickelodeon star is using her Twitter account to lash out at media outlets who claim that she’s smoking pot. Read on for more details!

Amanda Bynes is angry that media outlets have been posting unflattering pictures of her and insinuating that she uses drugs. In a series of bizarre tweets, the actress is demanding that these outlets use different photos and refrain from saying that she smokes pot!

Did Amanda Bynes Smoke Pot In A Bathroom?

In one tweet, Amanda wrote:

“@HuffingtonPost Choose a better photo or remove the story because I don’t smoke in the bathroom. I also don’t smoke pot I smoke tabacco! There are always tons of photos to choose, you pick the worst one! Read my twitter! Please don’t make the same mistake you saw someone else just make! Tweet your contact information...

Amanda took to Twitter on April 15 to post a bizarre video of herself getting ready and making strange faces. A top psychiatrist tells HollywoodLife.com that Amanda appears to possibly be suffering from Bipolar disorder.

Amanda Bynes‘ behavior keeps getting increasingly strange. The 27-year-old’s video, is the latest in a series of odd tweets from the former actress. Amanda posted a video of herself on April 15 getting ready in a bathroom and it has many people worried about her.

Amanda Bynes Appears Psychotic Says Psychiatrist

Dr. Carole Lieberman, who has never met Amanda, says that this video is incredibly disturbing because it shows Amanda talking to herself.

“This video is very suggestive of someone who is psychotic,” Dr. Lieberman M.D., psychiatrist and author of Bad Girls: Why Men Love Them & How Good Girls Can Learn Their Secrets says. “Amanda seems to be making faces at, and talking to,...

Selena is so over Justin. A source close to the singer tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively that Selena wants a man in her life, not a boy.

Justin Bieber has certainly had a tough week in London. He had the “worst birthday,” fainted, was hospitalized, showed up late to concerts and lashed out at the paparazzi. To make matters worse, his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez is laughing at his expense and filming diss dance videos with her girlfriends!

A source close to Selena, 20, tells HollywoodLife.com exclusively, “Selena has kept an eye on Justin in the news and just laughed and laughed. She doesn’t give a s**t anymore. Justin is crazy and she doesn’t want to be his mom anymore. She feels so free and loves hanging out with her girlfriends. He’s weird and she doesn’t find his behavior hot or anything. She just wants a man...

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

After last week’s episode ended with an innocent kid being shot, I assumed that the aftermath in “Buyout” would add another tally to the body count. However, as is typical with the show, I was dead wrong. Instead, “Buyout” is a fairly logical continuation of last week’s events. People talk out their problems instead of doing something rash. Everything that happened in this episode made sense.

Todd doesn’t think he did anything wrong, and in a way he is right. The kid could have caused them to get caught (not very likely, but still) and Todd had been told multiple times by both Walt and Jesse that there could be no witnesses. Jesse wants Todd out. Thankfully he doesn’t go through another catatonic faze like he did last season, but he still feels incredibly beat down. Dead kids are like Jesse’s kryptonite,...

Australia may not have an overabundance of horror films but they’ve managed to produce some quality genre pictures. The recent success of the acclaimed documentary Not Quite Hollywood has shed light on a much overlooked aspect of Aussie genre filmmaking, from lowbrow slashers to twisted thrillers and gross-out horror comedies. Back in the 70′s a number of prominent filmmakers began to develop a film movement that would eventually see the successes of such films as Mad Max and The Last Wave. It was during this time that Australian cinema as a whole experienced resurgence due to increased governmental funding and eventually gave way to what international film critics termed the “Australian New Wave” or the “Golden Age of Australian cinema”.

New Zealand hasn’t produced many horror films over the years, but those it has given birth to are remarkably strong entries. In fact one of the biggest filmmakers...

If the Aussies do anything right, it’s the creation of horror films and the strange devices that they use to create said horror films. They tend to be the opposite from their American cousins with attention more on characters and less on what is going wrong throughout the movie (killer, zombies, and ghosts). Strange Behavior is not typical in any fashion and is little different compared to what I have been watching recently. Yeah, the film was made in 1981 but I can’t get around to seeing all the old films before I see new ones. Who do you think I am? Anyways, the movie was originally titled “Dead Kids” and for whatever reason when making its way across the pacific to the States, it was turned into Strange Behavior but it works better due to the events of the movie. Well…as in kids behaving…strangely.

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Video Nasties: The Definitive Guide

The UK in the early 1980’s. The birth of the video age and the birth of one of the most notorious periods in British movie history – the era of the Video Nasty!

As the proliferation of home video grew, independent video distributors filled the gap left by a Hollywood system too afraid to release films on video with a mind-boggling selection of movies – in fact almost anything they could lay their hands on! From obscure horror films, to sex films, kung-fu, cult classics, obscurities and outright trash, all these and more could be found in local video rental stores located on almost every high street in the country. That was until 1984 when the tabloid newspaper moral panic whipped up by clean-up campaigner leader Mary Whitehouse and fanned by newspapers like the Daily Mail and their infamous “Ban the Sadist Videos” headline finally brought about the Video Recordings Act…...

Nucleus Films are set to release the definitive guide to the Video Nasties phenomenon next month – covering all the dirty secrets of one of the most controversial eras in the history of British film. For the first time on DVD, all 72 films that fell foul of the Director of Public Prosecutions are trailer-featured with special intros for each title, in a rather snazzy three-disc collector’s edition box-set, alongside a brand new documentary - Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship And Videotape, directed by Jake West. Disc One presents the 39 titles that were successfully prosecuted in UK courts and deemed liable to deprave and corrupt. These included: ‘Absurd’, ‘Cannibal Holocaust’, ‘The Driller Killer’, ‘I Spit on Your Grave’, ‘Nightmares in a Damaged Brain’, ‘Snuff’ & ‘Zombie Flesh-Eaters’. Disc Two presents the 33 titles that were initially banned, but then subsequently acquitted and removed from the Dpp's list. These included: ‘Death Trap’, ‘Deep River...

In the early 1980s, fearing that the morality of British youth was being corrupted by the explosion of ultraviolent film on home video, British authorities passed a sweeping new law on video content. It outright banned a total of seventy two films - though some would later be allowed on appeal - creating what ironically became the definitive list of extreme cinema for many collectors. These were the so-called Video Nasties.

In an age where everything you could possibly imagine is available for free on the internet the idea of controlling access to these titles seems sort of quaint but back in the day, if you were in the UK and wanted to see Cannibal Holocaust or I Spit On Your Grave the only way to do it was via illicit tape trading and an underground network of collectors.

And now, looking back on that era is Doghouse and Evil Aliens director Jake West,...

I can see Gus Van Sant making a Twilight movie if he's allowed to do it in his minimalist "death trilogy" style. And maybe if Sofia Coppola made Breaking Dawn she could use the money she makes on a more interesting film later. But Bill Condon? He's the one director in Summit's wish list that I can't see doing the thing. Sure, he did a Candyman movie so he can do horror -- which the Oscars told us Twilight is. And he also got spooky and paranormal more than 20 years ago with his directorial debut, Sister, Sister, as well as with his early scripts for Strange Behavior and Strange Invaders. But otherwise he's mainly a biopic guy these days. And this is why I hope he at least takes a meeting regarding this Twilight offer and turns his gathered research into a film about the series' creator, Stephanie Meyer.

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For the unaware, www.horrorcore.com is one of the largest outlets of the horrorcore/wicked shit musical genres the online market has to offer. For nearly a decade the site has played host to some of the most promising horrorcore veterans and prospects alike. Horrorcore powerhouses such as Mars, Menacide, Psycho Jesus, Kid Crusher, Q-Strange, and Insane Poetry have all been known to frequent the website, as well as quite a few of those future shiners like J.Hexx, bOb e. NiTe, and CrAkD (to name a few).

Well, back in 2003, the aforementioned Menacide launched what would become an annual horrorcore.com tradition; each Halloween a collection of the best holiday themed music the site has to offer would be compiled into one mass collection and released under the Devilz Nite moniker. Over the years some excellent work has graced the Devilz Nite compilations; terrific appearances from the likes of Sinister X,...

Welcome to the first installment of a new column here at Fangoria.com, Back Catalogue. Sometimes the Catalogue will cover new releases of older films, and sometimes it will feature exactly what the title implies, back catalogue items. These will normally be from smaller specialty labels that have formed the backbone of the horror fans ability to build a truly representative collection of their favorite films. I'm proud to start this column back up after a two year hiatus and promise to work hard to recommend films that you're in danger of forgetting about, have maybe never heard of, or that might be ready to go out of print.

I'm also proud that the first edition of Catalogue is all about Synapse Films. Anybody who goes to conventions and has stopped by the Synapse table has not only seen first hand the amazing array of labor of love releases and Special Editions they produce,...

Australian’s brief flare as a movie-superpower has been nicely described in the documentary “Not Quite Hollywood”, and there seems to be an increase in the amount of attention being paid to the titles mentioned in that film.

Take distributor Synapse, whose “new releases” page (at the moment I write this) only features vintage Australian thrillers.

This is not a bad thing, as these films range from peculiar to guilty pleasure, and there are even to be found some hidden gems in there as well. So today I review Synapse’s release of Michael Laughlin’s “Strange Behavior”, a genre mash-up thriller which technically speaking should be called an eighties’ slasher.

Yes, it’s teen-butchering time once again.

But although it features one of the nastiest (and off-putting) DVD-covers I’ve recently seen, “Strange Behavior” is not the gory shocker Synapse’s marketing department tries to sell it as. Instead...

With Australian cult film documentary Not Quite Hollywood riding high on the festival circuit interest in Australian cult film has never been higher and here come the fine lads at Synapse Films to scratch that particular itch with a quartet of releases. Vampire flick Thirst, magical thriller Dark Forces (originally released as Harlequin), cult horror title Strange Behavior (scripted by Oscar winner Bill Condon), and scifi action flick Syngenor. All have been given the quality Synapse treatment, which means the picture and sound quality have never been better, and all bolstered with generous selections of extras. And we’ve got trailers for all four in the Twitch Player below the break.