Starcrash
Starcrash (original Italian title Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, literally “stellar clashes beyond the third dimension”) is an Italian 1978 science fiction film, which was also released under the English title of The Adventures of Stella Star (in the…
Those Amazing Zombie Italian Movies
You had better have a strong stomach if you’re going to watch the five best Italian zombie movies. If you’re really daring, you’ll do it in one night. All you need is a girl and some grub; the gore you’ll…
What Is Giallo?
The term refers to books as the murder mysteries that typify the genre were first introduced in small pulp fiction novels with yellow covers, giallo being the Italian for yellow. The first film to follow the pattern established in the…
Suddenly:Sinatra’s B Movie
Not much happens in the small town of Suddenly. Once named after its hustle and bustle atmosphere, it has since settled into your typical, sleepy, average American burg. It’s the kind of place where beat cop Tod Shaw (Sterling Hayden)…
Mr.Dick Miller
Richard “Dick” Miller (born December 25, 1928) is an American character actor who has appeared in over 100 films, particularly those produced by Roger Corman, and later in films of directors who started their careers with Corman, including James Cameron…
Silent Night Deadly NIght
Silent Night, Deadly Night is a 1984 horror film produced by Ira R Barmak, written by Michael Hickey, directed by Charles E. Sellier, Jr. and starring Robert Brian Wilson, Lilyan Chauvin, Gilmer McCormick, Toni Nero, Linnea Quigley, Britt Leach, and…
Topo Gigio
When people talk about The Ed Sullivan Show the conversation almost always reverts back to Elvis Presley’s 1956 appearance watched by 60 million viewers, The Beatles first US live television performance on February 9, 1964 and, shockingly enough, the little…
Caltiki-The Immortal Monster
Each time I watch Caltiki – The Immortal Monster, I’m astonished that it hasn’t had a better history on home video – it’s one of the best black and white horror films, indeed sci-fi films, to come from Italy. It’s…
Carlo Rambaldi
If one asked filmgoers what they immediately visualise at the mention of Ridley Scott’s Alien (1979) and Steven Spielberg’s ET: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982), the majority would most likely name the creatures in the title roles – disgustingly malevolent in the…
Chuck Cirino B Movie Prophet, Composer And Nice Guy
From Hockstetter Q: First off, what career path and decisions were taken until you finally started scoring films in 1986, with “Chopping Mall? A: I have to go way back to the late-1960s when influences from Morricone and Leone inspired…
The Perpetual Albert Pyun
No other film director has been so much vituperated against as Albert Pyun. Frequently compared with Edward D. Wood Jr., they both share a fascination for the bizarre. Pyun has a feel for the stylistic and hypnotic, changing the conventions…
The Farmer
Kyle Martin (GARY CONWAY) is a Silver Star hero who returns home to his Georgia farm at the close of World War II. Behind its Currier & Ives exteriors, it becomes apparent that his farm is terribly rundown and close…
The Town that Dreaded Sundown, The remake?
Continuing its library-mining operation, MGM is developing a remake of 1976 horror movie “The Town that Dreaded Sundown.” MGM had no comment but the Lion has been asking agents for possible takes from writers to reboot the Charles B. Pierce…
Roger Corman’s Poe Movies
Terrifying tales of torture, madness, grizzly death and blood-curdling burials alive. These are core elements of Edgar Allan Poe, the most significant American writer of gothic and grandiose horror stories, the original grandmaster of gore. On the sliver screen, Poe’s…
PINO DONAGGIO
Pino Donaggio began his involvement with music at the age of ten years. Born in 1941, in Burano, in the Venetian lagoon Italy. Donaggio commenced studies in violin at the Venice Conservatory. He continued these studies at the Verdi Conservatory…
The Eternal Universal Soldier
Sometimes a simple, formulaic genre film breaks free of its format, takes root in the hearts and minds of a generation, and becomes something larger, greater — a modern myth. Movies like these don’t just spawn sequels; they sort of…
Francesco DeMasi
Francesco De Masi was an Italian conductor and film score composer. Born on the 11th January 1930 He studied composition at the San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, under the guidance of Achille Longo, who was also his uncle. De…
Rambo One More Time
Hollywood veteran Sylvester Stallone has confirmed his legendary action hero Rambo may make a return to the big screen for one last battle. Stallone talked about making another movie to end Rambo’s story during a recent appearance in Rome for…
Mockbuster Malady
Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, MGM and The Hobbit producer Saul Zaentz want to stop them using the word Hobbit in the title of the “knockoff film”. They claim The Asylum is “free-riding” on the worldwide promotional campaign for Peter…
Best and Worst B Movie Monsters
It’s been hailed as B-Movie campalicious because it boasts what is supposedly the lamest monster ever committed to celluloid. Robot Monster, the 1953 science-fiction schlocker, famously features a bloke in a gorilla suit wearing a diving helmet tormenting pretty ladies….