There’s a solid and creepy idea at work in the mockumentary, Project MKHEXE, I just don’t think it’s executed as well as it could have been. A rediscovered lost documentary tells the story of Tim Wilson (Ignacyo Matynia) as he attempts to dig into the suicide of his younger brother, Sean (Will Jandro). Tim doesn’t…
Tag: low budget
Tribe (2025) – Dan Asma
As I’ve previously said, in fact, I think everyone has found footage can be hit or miss. Tribe came up in my Facebook feed, and I figured, why not? There was something in it that caught my interest. For the most part, the film works; it stands up, but there are some pretty low-budget visual…
Screaming and Conjuring (2025) – Clark Collis
Clark Collis delivers a fantastic look at the horror genre and its revitalization during the run of films from the game changing Scream in 1996 to the haunted house Conjuring of 2013. That seventeen years of cinema saw countless genre films released, and it documents its growth and evolution. Collis explores them all, the high-profile…
The Delta Force (1986) – Menahem Golan
Chuck Norris has never really done it for me when it comes to action movies. No matter what his martial arts skills, he’s not the best actor, and consequently, he found himself stuck in lower-budget action films, much like The Delta Force. But with all of it’s trappings and tropes, the film has a really…
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) – George P. Cosmatos
It had been a while since I settled in for any of the Rambo films and thought it would be fun to take a look at the sequels. So I was excited to settle in for Rambo: First Blood Part II, the first of four sequels to 1982’s First Blood. The second film eschews some…
Phantasm III: Lord of the Dead (1994) – Don Coscarelli
The Tall Man (Angus Scrimm) returns to the screen for a third time in the second sequel to the 1977 cult phenomenon, Phantasm. The film not only gives viewers a quick recap, it runs us right up to the cliffhanger conclusion of the second film, and then welcomes A. Micheal Baldwin back to the role…
Phantasm II (1988) – Don Coscarelli
I love the Phantasm movies, all of them, every piece of the five movie collection. I remember first coming across the series when I was working at a video store, but recalled the poster for the second one showing up in a lot of DC comics I was reading in the 80s. Low budget, or…
The Mind Reels 