Tokusatsu (特撮とくさつ; lit. 'special filming') is a fascinating genre. Broadly, it refers to an entire genre of live-action superhero movies and shows that makes extensive use of practical special effects. You can lump in franchises like Super Sentai (known more popularly in the U.S. as
Last week's episode of Pretty Little Liars: Summer School left off with Faran (Zaria) taking on Bloody Rose Water's test like a champ. Of course, Bloody Rose Waters is a sore loser. So, she still attacks Faran, who not so easily gets away but not before slicing her arm with a knife. This week's
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for one of their four final specials for The Last Drive-In with a creature feature meets modern horror pairing, bringing together Rawhead Rex (1986) and Oddity (2024). It is a bizarre double feature on paper, and somehow even stranger in execution.
Hokum follows in the footsteps of other horror movies released recently that are what we like to call "slow burns." That subgenre usually starts slow and brings our characters into another world or brings an item from another world into ours. Hokum comes from writer/director Damian McCarthy, who
