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Death Ray of the Bermuda Triangle
I kicked off my Independence Day weekend by watching Full Moon’s new Blu-ray of BAD CHANNELS (1992), whose cover I recognized from video stores back in the day: an amorphous alien looms over test tube-like cylinders with tiny women trapped inside them. The screenplay is “based on idea by Charles Band,” so I have to…
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An Intro to Midnight Video
In 2020 I had big plans for a wedding anniversary trip with my wife to L.A. A month before our trip, everything booked, COVID shut the planet down. We canceled our trip. My employer shifted most positions to work-from-home. I needed a separate place to plug into my work mindset, so I could cleanly clock…
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Motorpsycho
Severin Films accomplished the impossible in 2024, striking a deal with the legendarily aloof RM Films to begin releasing (a limited number of) titles from the Russ Meyer library. Meyer is most famous for FASTER, PUSSYCAT…KILL! KILL! (1965), John Waters’ favorite film, and the X-rated big studio picture BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS (1970),…
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Crash and Burn
Sometime in the early 90ās (1992 or so), I was visiting with relatives in Oregon, and my cousin and I rented a movie from his local mom ānā pop video store. We probably rented more than one, but the one I remember is CRASH AND BURN (1990), a Full Moon production with a giant robot…
About
J.D. Kendall is the author of the forthcoming horror novel A SHADOW SO BIG from Spilt Ink Press (September 2026). He has published short speculative fiction as Jeff Kuykendall, and he likes to dabble in other creative projects, such as co-directing the music video “Filming the Sequel Before All the Actors Die” for the beloved Elephant 6 indie rock band Elf Power. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association and Wisconsin Writers Association. He earned an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington in Seattle and currently lives outside Madison, Wisconsin, with his family, two rescue dogs from Puerto Rico and Greece, and the private video store he built in his basement during lockdown, Midnight Video.
