Email Author Nick Rutigliano

2000 Stories by Nick Rutigliano

• Toxic Avengers

  published November 28, 2000

  Embraced by E!, shrugged off by Psychotronic, and variously hyped or panned by less schlock-centric institutions, the output of Troma... More >>

• Finders Creepers

  published October 24, 2000

  "This is the happiest day of my life!" gushes Baton Rouge funeral director Rick Staton in a home video edited into Julian P. Hobbs's documentary... More >>

• Blame It on the Brain

  published October 10, 2000

  Suggestion to Sony: Since never-say-die metal gawd Rob Halford recently penned a riotous tune called "Cyber World," and since he'll be gigging in... More >>

• Body Fount

  published September 26, 2000

  Whatever else can be said of Urban Legends: Final Cut, you can't whine that they skimped on the cast: Not only is Rebecca Gayheart (you... More >>

• Playa Baiting

  published September 5, 2000

  High-concept cinema this ain't: As any mo-ron could tell ya, a product selling out some large-ass stadiums is one begging for a post-performance... More >>

• Twins Infinitive

  published July 11, 2000

  A massive plaster gander atop a highway restroom proves the most telling image in writer-director Charlie Ahearn's addled road psychodrama,... More >>

• Freddie’s Revenge

  published June 20, 2000

  Unwaveringly arbitrary in nature, Robert Iscove's teenflick Boys and Girls approaches such niceties as construction and character... More >>