This is not a review of The Giant Spider but an informative post about a serious issue with The Movie Database regarding independent movies. I'm putting it here as this is the most popular of Christopher Mihm's movies and so hopefully has the best chance to be seen by like-minded viewers.

I got an email this morning from The Movie Database informing me that Christopher Mihm's The Phantom Lake Kids in the Beast Walks Among Us had been deleted due…

Back in 2019, I stumbled on House of Dreams while looking for either 1960s regional horror movies, movies made in Indiana, or both. I had read the Bleeding Skull review long before, but had filed it away and mostly forgotten about it. Once it was back on my radar, I ended up buying the DVD from Alpha Video and was pretty floored--here was a completely independent horror feature production made in Indiana that had its premiere in September of 1963.…

Frumpy historian Elizabeth (Patricia Philips) has a line on a document that may prove a theory she holds about a member of the rich Jamieson family. The only problem is it's in the possession of Mark Jamieson (Simon MacKorkindale), a rich snob who has no time for historical shenanigans. When Elizabeth jokingly suggests stealing it from his house to her psychiatrist friend Jayne (Barbara Jones) one evening while they're drinking too much wine, Jayne talks her into actually doing it.…

A suspiciously affordable new all-you-can-eat buffet has opened in Westridge (somewhere in Canada), around the same time a mysterious sinkhole appeared behind the strip mall where the restaurant is located. How is this mysterious dining bargain tied to a local L. Ron Hubbard type and his religion of Crypto-Numerology? What is that weird sound that keeps getting louder all over town? Where does Ahmed's Pawn keep getting all this secondhand stuff? These are but three of many, many, many questions…

"Communism is all over the place."

This movie suggests the coronavirus pandemic is a worldwide globalist conspiracy to establish a One World Order where everyone must speak English, and Christianity, ice cream, and funerals are all outlawed. It does this mostly through endless scenes of people sitting around in a big room in a basement and just talking and talking and talking. There are long follow shots of people walking where the camera is set at ass level; after a…

A list of 20 things filmmaker Tom Charley ("ctom") does not appear to know, understand, or believe, based on the content of this film:

1. Generally speaking, night is the part of the 24-hour cycle when it is dark outside.

2. The human gestational period is 9 months.

3. Waterboarding.

4. Hospitals.

5. Fall and Winter are the seasons when the weather is coldest.

6. Props.

7. Abortion.

8. The difference between "thousands" and "millions."

9. It is considered poor…