Throw John Carpenter, Clive Barker, and H.P. Lovecraft into
a blender, hit the button, leave the room for a while, and the resulting concoction
may well resemble The Void, the latest genre whoop-dee-doo
from Canadian filmmaking/maniac collective Astron-6. Don’t expect the camp of
Manborg, Astron-6 plays this relatively straight, but the same
deep love is there. More than most throwbacks, this legitimately feels like a
lost gem from 1983 someone dug out of the Salvation Army VHS bin thinking, “This
looks rad.”
