Zombi 2
ZOMBI 2 (otherwise known in the U.S. as just ZOMBIE and, in the U.K., as ZOMBIE FLESH EATERS) is one of the best known zombie flicks to come out of Europe during the 70’s and 80’s. For those of you…
Rage of the Yeti
Rage of the Yeti is set on an island called Mercy in the Artic which has suffered a sudden heatwave which has melted lots of ice & snow & an old ship called the HMS Victoria which contains an ancient…
Snowpiercer
Breeding some of the most provocative, absorbing of feature films, the dystopian genre has a duty to not only compel and entertain its audience, but to provide a relatively convincing hypothetical prediction, of how the human race would respond to…
Ice Spiders
Ice Spiders is set in the Lost Mountain skiing resort in Logan County in Utah where hotshot skier Dan ‘Dash’ Dashiell (Patrick Muldoon) works as a ski instructor, local ranger Rick Dickerson (K. Danor Gerald) ask’s Dash for help in…
Nurse 3D
A lurid B-movie horror thriller that seems mainly designed to fulfill its comely star Paz de la Huerta’s exhibitionist tendencies, Nurse 3D might have the inadvertent effect of increasing the number of male hospital patients under the mistaken belief that…
Zombeavers may be the next Sharknado
It seems that after the surprise success of a movie about sharks being sucked into tornadoes before attacking people, nothing is too ludicrous for Hollywood. Now the release of a new B-movie trailer has horror buffs chattering about the next…
Robocop, a review
RoboCop rebooted a quarter of a century after Paul Verhoeven’s 1987 original still has a subversive quality. The Brazilian director José Padilha may be working for a Hollywood studio but he doesn’t temper his critique of American imperialism, big business…
Welcome To The Jungle
he pitch for the cut-rate comedy Welcome to the Jungle? It’s The Office meets Survivor. Coworkers, stranded on a desert island, fight among themselves after the pilot for their chartered plane is found dead, and after the gung-ho military man…
The Outsider
The Outsider takes place in a world of endless lens flares, a J.J. Abrams–inspired visual tic as derivative as the rest of this vigilante B-movie in which no-nonsense British military contractor Lex Walker (Craig Fairbrass) returns to L.A. upon hearing…
Maniac Cop
For some odd reason, I always forget that Bruce Campbell stars in William Lustig’s ‘Maniac Cop.’ Of the long list of movies in which the chin-tastic actor has appeared — and not necessarily counting the hundreds of cameo appearances —…
The Lego Movie
Kids go through phases of Legomania which keeps them off Grand Theft Auto and bankrupts their parents. In product placement terms, an animated film with the client’s name in its title is the equivalent of three lemons in a row…
The Beast of Hollow Mountain & The Neanderthal Man On Blu-Ray
Retro-kitsch DVD producer Shout! Factory is back with the latest in its line of double-feature re-releases, this time with a pairing that will warm the hearts of many ‘50s schlock lovers. Black-and-white 1953 opus The Neanderthal Man is paired with…
Oldest Drive-In Goes Digital
GDC Technology Limited (“GDC Technology”), a world leading digital cinema solutions provider, is proud to announce that Shankweiler’s Drive-In Theatre in Pennsylvania, has selected GDC Technology’s SX-2000AR server with Barco’s DP2K-32B projector and Ballantyne Strong for its digital conversion. Shankweiler’s…
The RoboCop Legacy
Let’s look back on the Robocop legacy. RoboCop (1987) With a B-movie premise, a relatively tight budget and a director in Paul Verhoeven who’d never made a movie in Hollywood before, the odds were stacked against the original RoboCop from…
Blob’s Jack Harris Gets His Star
Back in the early ’70s, a 21-year-old came to producer Jack L. Harris with his first feature film, made in 12 days. The novice director had worked on more than 70 movies but this was his own and he put…
Surprising Sequels
There are some movies, be it through their natural storyline or boffo box office, that deserve a sequel. Then there are films that seem to have told a complete story, or not done enough business to make a continuation worthwhile….
Take a Hard Ride
Dir: Antonio Margheriti – Cast: Jim Brown (Pike), Lee van Cleef (Kiefer), Fred Williamson (Tyree), Catherine Spaak (Catherine), Jim Kelly (Kashtok), Barry Sullivan (Sheriff Kane), Dana Andrew, Harry Carey Jr., Ricardo Palacios – Music: Jerry Goldsmith Made roughly a decade…
Lee Van Cleef
Born on January 9, 1925 to parents of Dutch ancestry, Lee Van Cleef grew up in the pleasant farm community of Sommerville, New Jersey. Coming of age just in time for World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy…
Sabata
lthough Lee Van Cleef is wearing a kind of Colonel Mortimer outfit, Sabata is much closer in spirit to director Gianfranco Parolini’s own If you meet Sartana, Pray for your Death. 1969 was a difficult year for the Italian western…
FEARNET’s February Programming Brings World of Horror to Smallscreen
Revenge and heaping doses of it from Asia are what FEARNET is cooking up for you in February. Highlights OLDBOY, SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE, AND SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, AT 8 P.M. ET/5 P.M. PT FEARNET…