A Look Back At Don Dohler
Don Dohler’s admittedly cheap’n’clunky low-budget independent horror and science fiction pictures will probably never be acknowledged as true works of cinematic art, but his films still nonetheless possess a certain raw energy and infectious feeling of pure go-for-it Do-It-Yourself enthusiasm…
The Call
Too many critics and pundits were too busy making fun of Halle Berry’s hair instead of noticing how tight and compelling her newest movie was. The picture has a corker of a premise, with Berry playing a 9-1-1 operator who…
Ho Ho Horror
Santa’s coming for some of you depending on your personal beliefs and so is the holiday season and that means its time for you to sit down and enjoy some holiday cheer and mayhem. Whether you celebrate the holiday or…
Billy Jack Passes
Tom Laughlin, the maverick actor and filmmaker best known for the “Billy Jack” films, has died. He was 82. Laughlin died Thursday in Thousand Oaks, his family announced. Laughlin had been married to actress Delores Taylor since 1954 and also…
King of the monsters
We’ve had demons, vampires, werewolves, aliens, shapeshifters, cyborgs, zombies, even an oversized monkey called Kong. But none has proved more enduring or malleable or fascinating to filmmakers and audiences alike than the one monster that did actually exist: the dinosaur….
Audrey Totter, femme fatale actress of film noir, dies at 95
Audrey Totter, an actress who specialized in playing temptresses, dangerous dames and women harboring dark schemes in a series of movies from Hollywood’s film noir period of the 1940s and ‘50s, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Woodland Hills,…
Spoofing Sharknado
In your daily dose of cringe media the Atlanta Hawks have attempted to bring their team to a viral level by having their cheerleading squad star in a video spoof of the B-Movie, “Sharknado”. “Sharknado” is about a bunch of…
When Shaft Ruled Hollywood
With the release of The Butler, Fruitvale Station, 12 Years a Slave and The Best Man Holiday, 2013 has been proclaimed a banner year for Black films as well as filmmakers of color. Indeed, while these cinematic feats are being…
Susan Hart, The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Susan Hart (born June 2, 1941 in Wenatchee, Washington) is an American actress, and the widow of American International Pictures (AIP) co-founder James H. Nicholson. She is best known for her appearances in three popular AIP films of the 1960s,…
Look Back At Ed Wood
Anyone off the street, after spending years hearing him being labeled as the worst director of all time by the press, would falsely describe Edward D. Wood Jr’s life as something along the lines of “notorious.” The real story of…
Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes Poster Reveal
20th Century Fox has released the first posters for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Details on the plot are still scarce, but we know that it will continue building to the original 1968 film, there will be more…
Sharknado Sequel Underway
Sharknado became a pop culture phenomenon earlier this year and went on to become one of the most successful SyFy channel original films ever. The film has garnered enough attention and popularity to warrant a Sharknado sequel, which will be…
Francio Nero On Django
ranco Nero had no inkling that when he started filming the original Django movie nearly 50 years ago that he’d be making history. There was no real script, the budget was at first big enough to finance only a single…
Christopher Young: Composer
One of the foremost talents in film music today, Golden Globe-nominated composer Christopher Young has scored an impressive number of features in virtually every genre, all with strikingly original music. The spine-tingling “Hellraiser” showcases the composer’s seminal upbringing in horror;…
The First B Movie Superstar: Elmo Lincoln
Elmo Lincoln was an American film actor. Born Otto Elmo Linkenhelt, the barrel-chested actor is best known in his silent movie role as the first person to star as Tarzan (as an adult) (Gordon Griffith played him as a child…
Cyborg Cop
The first time I saw Cyborg Cop (also known as Cyborg Soldier) was back in the early 1990’s on HBO as part of the channel’s old Thursday Night Prime series, which saw a new low budget genre movie debut every…
Three Bullets for a Long Gun
Several people have called this a spaghetti western, even if it’s a South-African production, shot on South-African locations. It clearly rips off Sergio Leone’s dollar movies and offers a few winks at Corbucci and Peckinpah as well. The tone is…
Day Of The Dead Soundtrack
Even when outright horror movies had humor in them, composers would mostly play the often gory action straight. While DAY OF THE DEAD might amiably shamble amongst George Romero’s original trilogy, it’s John Harrison’s score that stands as the most…
John Saxon
John Saxon has appeared in nearly 200 roles in the movies and on television in a more-than half-century-long career that has stretched over seven decades since he made his big screen debut in 1954 in uncredited bit parts in It…
Natasha Henstridge
Natasha Henstridge was born on August 15, 1974 in Springdale, Newfoundland, Canada. Known for movies like Species (1995) and The Whole Nine Yards (2000), she started her career as a model in Paris, France at the tender age of 15….