Lousy Carter

Lousy Carter (2023)

Lousy Carter has its UK première at the Glasgow Film Festival 2024 Writer/director Bob Byington’s latest feature Lousy Carter opens with its protagonist (David Krumholtz) explaining his unusual nickname to his Jungian analyst (Stephen Root). We never learn Lousy’s real forename, but ever since, back in high school (where he was a “brutal nerd”), he…

Shines

Monkey Shines (1988)

Monkey Shines first published by Little White Lies, as the 67th instalment of my Cinema Psychotronicum column By the mid Eighties, George A. Romero was at the very top of the genre game. His ‘Holy Trinity’ of Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Day of the Dead (1985) had…