Awaken’s Natalie Burn
Natalie Burn’s parents enrolled her in a gymnastics class in Ukraine at the age of four. The hard work and training Natalie endured in gymnastics was instilled into her and it was the beginning of her competitive and ambitious life….
Alien Intruder (1993)
Welcome to the grim future. The year is 2022. Aboard the U.S.S. Holly in outer space, mild mannered crew member Borman (Jeff Conaway) has apparently gone berserk. For no logical reason, Borman has callously slaughtered his own men… Back on…
Screwballs II (1985)
Four twenty-year olds who have been stuck in the twelfth grade for four years because of all the babes they continue to score with are sent by their fed-up principal to a “special school” in the summer to supposedly teach…
Beneath Still Waters (2005)
The picture packs thrills, chills , terror and lots of blood and gore . Horror and fantasy based on a novel “Beneath Still Waters” by Matthew Costello with screenplay by Angel Sala , though partially inspired by the master H.P….
King of the Ants (2003)
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals. “King of the Ants” is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer…
From Beyond (1986)
Two scientists create a machine that enlarges the penial gland(the supposed location of the third or “mind’s eye” which Descartes called “the seat of the soul” and Bataille called “the blind spot of western rationality”) and are able to glimpse…
Basket Case (1982)
This movie is a classic. That’s all there is to it. You need to watch it. You need to go watch it now. If you don’t know what it’s about, protect your innocence, get a bunch of friends and a…
The Cannon Fodder: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus
Menahem Golan’s death in Tel Aviv last August at the age of 85 was cause for mourning, but also nostalgia. For those who remember run-down movie palaces with enormous marquees, Golan and first cousin Yoram Globus ruled the 1970s and…
Death Spa
“Death Spa” was released in 1990 and immediately relegated to video store shelves. Over time the film developed a small but loyal fan base, mainly due to the cover art. The film has been recently undergoing a small renaissance with…
The Son Of Morricone: Danielle Luppi
You have long been influenced by soundtracks, especially Italian ones, since you were born and brought up there. What are your earliest memories of experiencing the music that you are now recreating? I was born in ’72, so until the…
TerrorVision (1986)
TERRORVISION is a very peculiar horror-comedy that has the word “camp” labeled all over it. This fairy tale tells about a sloppy alien puppet monster who, presumably by accident, enters Planet Earth via a TV satellite dish. This enormous monster…
Frankenhooker (1990)
Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (1990) is a funny horror comedy starring James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken, a young man who is extremely interested in medical studies and becoming a doctor. He makes his weird experiments in his house while his parents…
Pompeii
Here is what Pliny the Younger wrote when he set down his memories of the devastating volcanic eruption at Pompeii, in 79 AD: “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. There…
Scorned
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve (English Playwright and Poet, 1967, in The Mourning Bride) Revenge flicks can be good. If they have enough of a…
Chill Wills
Chill Theodore Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American film and television actor and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet. Biography: Wills was born in 1902 in Seagoville near Mesquite in Dallas County, Texas. He…
More Stuff
Another one of those reviews that some might construe as being a tad biased. As I did with Arrow’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 re-release, I contributed to this Blu-ray, in that I wrote its accompanying booklet. That piece on food…
Time Runner
This movie makes my life hurt. It stars everyone’s favorite actor Mark Hamill as a time travelling savior from the future named Michael Raynor. On this little jaunt through stupidity we find out much more than we need to know…
Bullets Don’t Argue (1964)
“Bullets Don’t Lie” is a Ravioli/Chorizo Western with a prolific Italian director and usual actors from Spaghetti . Entertaining Spaghetti Western with shootouts , action , go riding ,violence and amusement . On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett…
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)
When Jenna asks her four hot girlfriends to help convert an old mansion into a Halloween Haunt, they decide to party instead! Things get steamy between the girls, until they accidentally unleash the half-pint, horrible Killer Eye, a perverse party…
Samuel Fuller
Crime reporter, freelance journalist, pulp novelist, screenwriter, World War II infantryman—Samuel Fuller was a jack of all trades before the high-school dropout directed his first film at age thirty-six. But once he was contacted by Poverty Row producer Robert L….