"VAMPIRE BURT'S SERENADE" (2020)

A Vampire Movie with No Stakes

Vampire Burt's Serenade 
Written and directed by Ken Roht
Starring Kevin Scott Richardson, Sharon Ferguson, Brandon Heitkamp, Diva Zappa
Running time: 1 hour 16 minutes
Unrated, but contains graphic language, toothless sexual content, obnoxious drug use, cartoonish violence and instances of mild monsterism.

by: Hunter Bush

When a vampire kills the MC of a popular strip club, the strippers set out to get revenge by surprising the vampire where he'd least expect it: picking up drugs from his dealer. That pretty-well sums up Vampire Burt's Serenade in a nutshell, though there is more than that going on. Much more. Some would say too much more. I am one of them.

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN 16

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN
VOL. 16 - JUNE 2020

by: Hunter Bush

Welcome welcome, one and all. The quarantine persists and I would hope that if you're reading this, you are still social distancing and taking care of yourself. But - to paraphrase my jr. high sex ed teacher - just because you're playing it safe doesn't mean you can't have fun. And around here, fun means Movies! In EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN it specifically means the movies that are Remakes of older flicks, or Adaptations of some other work or even Long-Gap Sequels to some long ago film that someone was just dying to add to the legacy of.

Since the film world is currently light on premiers, I've expanded the scope of the column to include films meeting EOINA criteria coming to streaming services no matter when they were originally released. BUT, streaming services are notoriously difficult to track down release date info for so... basically I'm doing my best  here, y'all and many many thanks to Allison Yakulis, my partner-in-crime, for helping with the research here.

Without any further ado, let the Quarant-EOINA commence...

"DREAMLAND" (2020)

DREAMLAND (2020)

Written by Tony Burgess & Patrick Whistler
Directed by Bruce McDonald
Starring Juliette Lewis, Stephen Mchattie, Henry Rollins
Running time: 1 hour 32 minutes

by Hunter Bush

Dreamland takes place in a world that's like ours, and yet not. Characters drift through it at an lackadaisical pace that heightens the film's tension by seeming to ignore that there is tension at all, or they get carried along almost nonchalantly by events, like a particularly "chill af" leaf on a river of gangland violence. Choices are made that would make no sense in a world where logic mattered, while here in Dreamland they seem like the only option worth choosing. With a title like Dreamland is it any surprise that this film is, well... dreamlike?