April Wright and her passion for Drive-Ins At the B Movie Celebration
It’s always exciting to explore the persona of an emerging talent. April Wright, writer, director, and producer of the recently released documentary, Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-In Movie, is one such talent. Wright earned an MBA…
Lorenzo Lamas Battles Dinos At The B Movie Celebration
If you haven’t yet had enough of monster movies full of computer generated abominations, and you can’t quite wait until 2015 for Jurassic World, then you’re in luck. A brand new Jurassic Park ripoff is stomping our way, and we’ve…
James Cullen Bressack’s 13/13/13
Written and directed by James Cullen Bressack who brought us “Hate Crime,” “To Jennifer,” and “My Pure Joy.” Knowing and enjoying James’ style, I anticipated a lot of insane moments and he didn’t let me down. “For millennia, calendars have…
Peter Bogdanovich’s Targets
Boris Karloff became a star playing Frankenstein’s Monster. Thirty-seven years later, he ended his career in a movie that was assembled like one. The film was originally conceived under the ominous title Before I Die, and later released as Targets….
Army of Darkness 2 Still Happening
Back in March, producer Rob Tapert revealed that the long-awaited fourth sequel to the original 1981 horror classic The Evil Dead will be called Army of Darkness 2, as a follow-up to 1993’s Army Of Darkness. Franchise star Bruce Campbell…
Chopping Mall Comes Alive Again At The B Movie Celebration
On March 21st, 1986, a film was released by legendary producer Roger Corman that today is still recognized as a genre classic. “CHOPPING MALL” produced by Julie Corman and helmed by exploitation wunderkind Jim Wynorski, was released during the VHS/home…
Escape Plan is a masterpiece, you guys. Seriously
If you didn’t see the Sylvester Stallone-Arnold Schwarzenegger prison break movie “Escape Plan” this weekend, I have a surprise for you. It’s pretty awesome! I’ve conducted a quick sample of reviews online, and I would characterize them overall as “mixed…
Spinning Horror Into Gold
At first glance, there is nothing particularly special about Jason Blum. He makes low-cost horror films that sell a lot of tickets. Producers have been getting rich from that formula for decades: rinse (the fake blood) and repeat.Adelaide Kaine in…
Ida Lupino’s The Hitch Hiker
Reputedly based on a true incident (“Penned from the headlines”), the story traces the movements of a hitch-hiker, Emmett Myers (Talman), who repays his highway hosts by robbing and murdering them. Initially, we are shown mere glimpses of Myers and…
Rocky Horror Lets The Freak Fly
Ryan and Faith Wilson have spent over a decade stuck in a Time Warp. Maybe ‘stuck’ isn’t the right word, since the husband-and-wife team have produced and directed the Friday Nite Specials Rocky Horror Picture Show cast – and danced…
Mexico’s B Movie Master
Mexico’s half-forgotten B-movie master, “involuntary surrealist” Juan Orol (1897-1988) , receives a pitch-perfect tribute which is a love letter to a self-made man of showbiz, whose career spanned nearly sixty films (1935-1968) . In a black and white flashback mingling…
Escape Plan
When Arnold Schwarzenegger tried to make a comeback to the big screen earlier this year with The Last Stand, he failed miserably. It wasn’t because he has turned into a dull husk, it was because the film just didn’t have…
Creature
I thought for a while about the choice for my first Netflix review. There seemed to be an infinite amount of choices, I was like a kid at a candy store. Except, all the candy was either rotten or tasted…
Syfy follows Sharknado with Stonados
Sharknado, which aired in July this year, became an internet sensation as a result of its implausible plot and its terrible special effects. And now the Syfy channel is looking for a repeat performance with a film about deadly rocks…
Five Quick Questions with Sean Cain
Sean Cain is an editor, director and writer amongst other jobs. He wrote and directed his classic “Silent Night Zombie Night” and his upcoming “Jurassic Block”. Sean’s passion is editing and some of those films include “Sand Sharks,” “Zombiegeddon,” “Silent…
Will Riff No More
Joel Hodgson seems like a humble American, like a white guy who works for a Philadelphia-based aerospace company (which he in fact does). But he’s also a cultural icon, a legend in the minds of millenials who grew up watching…
THE IMPROVISED B-MOVIE
The Philly Improv Theater (PHIT) house team Asteroid! will once again stage The B-Movie, an improvised show that celebrates the fun of the low-budget sci-fi/horror films of the 50’s and 60’s, starting tonight, October 17, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. and…
Carrie 2013: Hell has no fury like a woman scorned
This weekend actress Chloë Grace Moretz will recreate one of the most famous sequences from 1970s cinema. Years after the release of the 1976 Brian De Palma-directed Carrie, the movie’s impact was summed up by Esquire, who wrote, “Like any…
Some Big Ass Spider Love
Is there a better name for a film about a big ass spider than Big Ass Spider!? We think not! But director Mike Mendez (The Gravedancers) says his self-explanatory creature feature, which hits select cinemas on Oct. 18 and will…
When A Stranger Calls (the good one)
The movie “When a stranger calls” starts off with young Jill Johnson, Carol Kane, coming over one evening to the Mandrakis residents to baby-sit for their two small children. As soon as the Mandrakis’ leave Jill starts getting phone calls…