The Hammer
Born in Gary, Indiana, on March 5, 1937 (some sources cite 1938 as his date of birth), Fred ‘Hammer’ Williamson grew up in Gary and graduated from Froebel High School in 1955. He enrolled at Northwestern University, where he played…
Five Million Years to Earth
‘Five Million Years to Earth’ is the US title for the British film, ‘Quartermass and the Pit’. It’s based on a BBC six-part TV serial, broadcast in December 1958 and January 1959. There were two prior TV series, The Quartermass…
The Creeping Terror
This 74-minute stink bomb is produced and directed by A.J. Nelson, alias Vic Savage, who also stars in the lead role. Savage plays Martin Gordon, a deputy in Angel County, Calif., which is nonexistent, just like we wish this movie…
The Effusive Greydon Clark
GREYDON CLARK is a renaissance man of B movie cinema – actor/writer/producer & more over four decades of delectable decadence (and counting). Here is a brief but illuminating Q&A with this genre giant: Will the Thrill: Any standout memory or…
A Few Moments With Kelli Maroney
Kelli Maroney plays cute and tough, bad and beautiful better than anyone. In “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” her character intrepidly stands up for school spirit during a rally. In the cult zombie classic “Night of the Comet” she wields…
Netflix Announce 4 Live-Action Marvel Series
Marvel will now dominate all media. Having conquered the multiplex, currently holding down TV with “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (even as the show finds its footing), the next move for Marvel is streaming into the homes of fans everywhere with the…
Dogs of Hell
Independent star / producer Earl Owensby 3D fable “Rottweiler: Dogs from Hell” is a trashy, but mildly fun cheap-jack little animals run amok horror enterprise. I saw this one when I was only a kid and certain scenes had stayed…
Zombie Prom
Boy meets girl. Girl loves boy, but parents disapprove. Boy commits suicide at a nuclear-power plant but returns as a zombie — just in time to take girl to the big dance. Zombie Prom, opening tonight in the Drake Center’s…
Army Of Darkness Sequel a No Go
Right, someone needs to make up their minds about whether this film is happening or not. Despite telling people that Army of Darkness 2 was going ahead (not to mention Fede Alverez also saying it was happening), Ash Williams himself…
Good Bye Gore Roger Corman
At 87 years old, Roger Corman is a twinkly gent. He walks with a pronounced stoop, and speaks in careful, precise sentences, making considerable effort not to waste a word. It’s hard to believe the career this benign legend has…
Moments That Made The Movies
Advertisement The name of David Thomson’s new book is “Moments That Made the Movies” (Thames and Hudson, 302 pages, $39.95). His basic premise in this beautifully illustrated book is sound – that it is moments from movies that we retain…
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Believe it or not, Lake Placid vs. Anaconda is a real motion picture that reportedly begins filming next month. The folks at SyFy were way ahead of their time. In an attempt to capitalize on the B-movie boom that followed…
They Live
John Nada (Roddy Piper) comes to L.A. to search for a Job. On the same working place, when he finds a job. John meets Frank (Keith David), Frank asks John to come along. Where Frank stays with poor people and…
A Little Spanish Press On The B Movie Celebration, Dracula 0.9
Among the striking postal culture that draws those that are not so easily forget . For example, those who made the filming of a horror film , a version of the classic Dracula more or less, in an enclave already…
Evil Dead 2
It is a rare occasion for a sequel to be better than the original, even more so for a low-budget B-movie. “Evil Dead II” is one of these few exceptions. Released in 1987, a solid six years after the first…
World War Z on Blu-Ray
In the entire history of feature film adaptations of literary works, none have been so dismissive of their sources as World War Z. Bar the title and the genre, Marc Forster’s film shares precious little in common with Max Brook’s…
The Worst Fanboys-Tongue Firmly In Cheek
Fanboys – people that are fanatical about a particular type of technology – should be loaded into a special space ship that flies directly from Earth to the burning, white-hot center of the Sun. Do these people even stop to…
Snake Eater
You have to wonder who the intended audience is for this movie. The box says “As Dirty as Dirty Harry, as Dangerous as Deliverance.” Why they are comparing this 1989 film to movies from 20 years ago I do not…
Firebird 2015 AD
In Firebird 2015 AD picturesque Drumheller, Alberta stands in for the Iowa countryside getting ripped up by Darren McGavin’s bad, bad Turbo Am Firebird. McGavin, who you may recognize as the father in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story stars in…
The Origins Of The Exorcist
The 1973 classic “The Exorcist,” an Oscar-winning horror film that is still considered to be one of the scariest ever made, and the book of the same name, were not simply imagined, but inspired by demon-purging rituals that took place…