This is the kind of movie that makes me feel bad for people that never go cinematic dumpster diving. Yeah, you slog through a lot of boring garbage but every once in a while you find a Despiser.

Recently I've been thinking a lot about the reasons I love super low budget trash movies and how that's changed over the years. I originally came to them very much through the "so bad it's good" riffing philosophy. There's still an element…

Technically this is based on the comic book series of the same name. However, the adaptation is so loose that I wouldn't be surprised if director/writer David Prior had some of the ideas and images here already kicking around before getting attached to this project. This very much has the feeling of a long gestating debut and does have some of the overstuffing that so often comes with those kinds of movies.

Empty Man feels like a mashup between two…

This is a difficult film to rate especially when many of the references ended up going right over my head. The Wolf House is the story of Colonia Dignidad told through a fairy tale/nightmare about a girl who takes up residence in an abandoned house while running from a wolf.

Colonia Dignidad was a compound in Chile that for decades housed a cult led by Paul Schafer, a German who fled his country to escape charges of pedophilia. The colony…