Aug
16

Batdance: Dust Devil, Hank Williams and the Art of Rambling

Sean McTiernan has finally recovered from his battle with scurvy. 1993′s Dust Devil is a horror classic. We’re not even talking a surprisingly-effective-for-this-kind-of-nonsense, peep-immediately-if-on-netflix-instant classic like Deranged. We’re talking a work of art on the same level as The Thing, Chronos and There’s Nothing Out There. It concerns an evil spirit that roams the Namib… Continue reading »

May
25

Batdance: Zatoichi

Sean McTiernan isn’t a farmer but he would like to be a samurai. Initially, maniac filmmaker Beat Takeshi’s announcement he was going to make a costume drama called Zatoichi was given a muted response at best. Zatoichi is of one of Japanese cinema’s most fondly remembered icons, a blind masseur and master swordsman who sliced… Continue reading »

May
13

Batdance: The Fourth Wall Obliteration of “Hellzapoppin’”

Sean McTiernan went to hell for snuffing Martha Raye. When asked about where you’re going to find one of the best combinations of music and dance in movie history, your mind may not initially wander to a proto-Monty Python/Michelle Gondry piece of slapstick-surrealism from the early 1940s. Which, in fairness, is a pretty reasonable thing… Continue reading »

May
06

Batdance: Phantom of the Paradise

Batdance is a new column combining cult films and the soundtracks who love them. It is written by Sean McTiernan, who owns several purple suits. So there’s a particular strain of 70s camp movie set trippin’ that’s been transpiring for a while. As you know, Rocky Horror is an egregiously-camp 70s musical and cult classic… Continue reading »