Cinema Massacre
Every year around this time, I have a tendency to get sucked into watching even more spooky Halloween and horror films than usual. Earlier today, stumbling on Cinemassacre’s yearly “Monster Madness” segment, I started reflecting back on some of the…
It’s All Going Be Chinese
China’s richest man, property developer Wang Jianlin, raised the curtain on a planned 50 billion yuan ($8.17 billion) “motion-picture city” which he described as the biggest-ever single investment in the movie and television industry. Property developer Wang Jianlin, 58, founder…
Machete Kills
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he’d build on the U.S.-Mexico border: 20 feet tall with barbed wire, electricity, and a moat. “And I would put those alligators in that moat!” he cheered….
The 2013 Golden Cob Award Winnners
We are pleased to announce this years B Movie’s GOLDEN COB AWARDS For Excellence In B and or GENRE Movies Films released up to September 1st, 2013 were eligible for voting. Four different committees nominated films and film artist to…
Del Toro Does Simpsons
Guillermo Del Toro, screenwriter and director who was the creative mind behind Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone and Pacific Rim, is trying a hand at animation this fall, where he will design the 2-minute-45-second opening sequence to this year’s…
Killers From Space — Cheesy 1950’s B-movie Sci-Fi
Fun trivia for any fans out there of cheesy 1950’s B-movie Sci-Fi, here is a review of Killers from Space, starring Peter Graves, from 1000misspenthours.com (That is, Misspent, as in 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, not Miss Pent. LOL.) Enjoy….
It’s the Invasion of the 87-year-old Producer!
Roger Corman would have a field day coming up with a title for this one. It’s about an 87-year-old man who refuses to yield ground to the behemoths that have invaded his home world. Corman, known for 60 years of…
The Wild And More Than Prolific Brett Kelly
As a director, Brett has had “an almost Roger Corman-esque career in Canada” (bloodsprayer. com) and has directed over 15 features, unprecedented for Canadian film makers. He has been called “Canada’s Duke of Doom” (Penny Blood Magazine) and “Canada’s Baron…
Bad Milo
While there have been some very successful gross out monster movies that inspire the imagination while at the same time turning the stomach (see all the amazing work of Frank Henenlotter!), it is admittedly a tough genre to make work….
100 Years Of The Orpheum
A staple for the performing arts in downtown Sioux Falls is celebrating a monumental birthday. 100 years ago this week, the Orpheum theater was first opened to the public. KDLT’s Phil McIlrath gives us a look back on the last…
Silent Running
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew…
Saving Movie Theatres Through Gravity
This weekend’s two new releases provide a perfect example of the current divide in the movie going experience. I am speaking of course of Warner Bros.’ Gravity with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney along with 20th Century Fox's Runner Runner…
We Are What We Are
When making a scary film, there are only so many directions you can take. Characters, formulas and monsters are recycled again and again through the narrow, dimly lit echo-chamber that has become the horror genre. So it’s refreshing when one…
Cinema Wasteland to stalk Strongsville
Oh my gawd, it’s a gaggle of bloody freaks in a pool of movie geeks! Ah, no worries. For years, they’ve been getting along swimmingly in their own little “Cinema Wasteland.” Shrieking cretins, it’s the Cinema Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia…
I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)
This is my favorite B movie. I first saw it on Doc Shock’s Mad Theater out of Philly in the early 70s. Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the…
The Hideous Sun Demon (1959)
The late Robert Clarke appeared in a number of cult sci-fi classics including The Man From Planet X (1951) and Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), but the one he’ll be best remembered for is 1959’s THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, which…
Horror House
Horror House is a brand new horror anthology from the Newlyweds of horror Kerry and Evan Marlowe. The film stars b-movie icon Lloyd Kaufman as Joe the Real Estate Agent who guides us through five different stories taking place in…
Godzilla Re-Emerges
Godzilla, the instantly recognizable, radioactive, B-movie monster with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, will be 60 years old when he stomps into theaters in May of 2014. Based on the iconic Japanese film series, Godzilla is…
B Movie Producer Passes
A.C. Lyles, a producer whose affiliation with Paramount Studios spanned more than 85 years, has died. He was 95. Lyles died Friday night at his home in Los Angeles, said his assistant Pam Gibson. His long association with the studio…
Sammy Terry Is Back
Old memories were shared and new memories were made Saturday night at Robe-Ann Park as Sammy Terry came to life for a new generation of Hoosiers while ghoulishly reversing the aging process on a legion of older admirers. More than…