Deathstalker had its North American première at Fantastic Fest 2025, 20th Sept “A cauldron brimming with stale filmmaking, stone-faced acting and primitive editing. Aside from the nasty rapes (I lost count after six) and the endless violence, Deathstalker drips with derivative dullness. The movie is so bad that the director can’t even give you a…
Frankie Freako had its international première on 22nd September at Fantastic Fest 2024 “He says I have to spice up my bland presentation on sector subdivisions tomorrow,” anal-retentive office drone Conor (Conor Sweeney) complains to his artist wife Kristina (Kristy Wordsworth) of his boss Mr Buechler (Adam Brooks) near the beginning of Steven Kostanski’s Frankie…
Psycho Goreman first published by VODzilla.co The Canadian filmmaking collective known as Astron-6 has over the last decade made a specialty of lovingly resurrecting the sensibilities of different kinds of genre cinema from the Eighties, whether in wildly comic parodies (Manborg, 2011; Father’s Day, 2011; The Editor, 2014) or occasionally in a more serious mode…
Father’s Day first published by VODzilla.co In 1980, Troma Entertainment released Charles (brother of Troma co-founder Lloyd) Kaufman’s Mother’s Day – a rape revenger made very much in Troma’s cheap-and-sleazy in-house style of schlock and gore. So one might be forgiven for assuming that Father’s Day, made for Troma by the Canadian comic collective Astron-6…
The Void first published by VODzilla.co Jeremy Gillespie and Steven Kostanski, the writer/director team behind The Void, are also two of the five personnel in Astron-6, a collective of Canadian filmmakers who specialise in closely parodying the very best worst aspects of Eighties genre cinema. You can see their hilarious handiwork in the Father’s Day (2011),…