I've become a big fan of writer/director Padraig Reynolds, having dug his Rites of Spring and Dark Light a lot, I was excited for his latest, a slasher throwback called Open 24 Hours. The concept is simple: a paranoid woman with a violent past gets an overnight job at 24-hour gas station. On her first shift, which is a particularly dark and stormy night, her past literally comes back to haunt her. Plot and character development aren't the most important thing here. There's just enough of both to hang the movie on. It's the tension and violence that are the focus, and there's plenty of it. The gore doesn't feel exploitative though, at least no more so than similar recent offerings like Halloween (2018) and Random Acts of Violence. It's an integral part of the proceedings. This is, after all, a slasher movie. Mary, as played by Vanessa Grasse, is a great Final Girl. She's strong, yet vulnerable. Beautiful, but not sexualized. And we are...

It was a lively show this past Saturday morning, and if you didn't get to hear it, now sweat (but you really could've tuned in). We proudly present to you this, the latest podcast From The Basement. Not only do Jason and Shawn review a bunch of new movies to make your viewing selection easier, they also welcome Dusan Magdolen of the Kamloops Film Society to discuss movie watching heading into the fall. What have The Basement Boys watched this week? They take on Open 24 Hours, the latest horror offering from writer/director Padraig Reynolds. Does this update on the slasher genre deliver the gory goods? Is Vanessa Grasse's character really crazy? Or is a mad killer actually on the loose? Stick with us! And stick around as Shawn checks out Netflix's Project Power starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Jason tackles Greg Lamberson's latest, Widow's Point with Craig Sheffer, the Shudder sensation Host, and the horror/Western The Pale Door. As for Dus...

Hockey continues to dominate the Radio NL 610 AM airwaves, but there's still time for those fine purveyors of film de cinema to work their audio magic. From The Basement returns once again to pleasure your ear holes with a slew of new reviews, and an update on the local movie scene. First up: the movies! Jason and Shawn provide a feature review on Padraig Reynolds's latest effort, the slasher flick Open 24 Hours. This one stars Vanessa Grasse in a twisted tale at an all-night gas station. Does it deliver the spooky -- and let's face it, gruesome -- goods? Stick with us! And stick with us you shall, as The Basement Boys take on the latest Netflix original Project Power starring Jamie Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the ghost story Widow's Point from genre vet Greg Lamberson, and the horror/Western The Pale Door... all so you don't have to! But wait, local movie fans, Kamloops Film Society executive director Dusan Magdolen checks off a bucket-list item by comin...

Giant monster movies were the bomb back in the 50s... largely because of the bomb -- as in nuclear bomb -- and public fear of said bomb. That fear was manifested into giant things like spiders, ants, or iguanas marching out of the desert and eating/smashing anything in their path. *Takes sip of Captain Morgan's rum and Coke Zero* Back in 1989, the video-game company Cinemaware created It Came from the Desert for the Amiga computer (represent!). Said game was inspired by those 1950s horror movies, specifically the giant-ant movie Them!, as the hero in the game is trying to stop an army of mutant ants who came... from the desert!