JOHN STANLEY is the legendary author of numerous articles, novels and books on the subject of fantasy cinema, and perhaps most famously hosted the popular Creature Features program in the Bay Area circa the early ‘80s. He is additionally a filmmaker in his own right, as well as a good a friend and an all-around [...]

EDDIE MULLER, author, bon vivant, cultural archeologist and founder of both the Noir City Festival and the Film Noir Foundation, is indeed the Czar of Noir. You couldn’t find a nicer guy for such a dirty job, either. His many books on the topic include such definitive tomes as Dark City: the Lost World of [...]

ARCH HALL JR. is that rare combination - a living legend and a nice guy. This cool cat is still swingin’ forty odd (yes, very odd) years since his debut in The Choppers (1961) written by his legendary father, Arch Hall Sr., and cementing his own legacy as a drive-in deity with the timeless gems [...]

Announcing the great film line-up at this years B Movie Celebration
Abby
Black Christmas
Black Horizon
Blacula
Chopping Mall
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Cyclone
Dark Star
Dire Wolf
Dr. Goldfoot and the The Bikini Machine
Forbidden Planet
Gas!
Godzilla King of the Monsters
Grand Theft Auto
Halloween
The Hideous Sun Demon
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Horror of Dracula
I Was A Teenage Frankenstein
Ilsa She Wolf of The SS
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Journey to The [...]

CYXORK 7 , the hilarious and inventive movie about making a movie in a fading sci-fi franchise, coming May 15 from Monogram Releasing, is one of the Best Movies of 2008 you’ve never heard of, according to Popmatters and according to me, too. Prolific and amiable writer/director JOHN HUFF gave us the lowdown on this [...]

New Jersey’s Elysee Productions has unearthed two tawdry, torrid treasures from the salt mines of sleazy drive-in cinema history: the complete and original scores for Al Adamson’s notorious monster-match Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) and Eddie Romero’s equally infamous tropical terror Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969). The former was originally released by Adamson’s decadent drive-in [...]

Juicier than a Georgia peach and wilder than a Georgia beach (during a hurricane), this retro-rocket blast of a soundtrack to the 2005 cult surf-monster movie Stomp! Shout! Scream! (now available from Monogram Releasing) is a ready-made party-time smash. The fourteen tracks include all five period pitch-perfect all-girl garage rock numbers by Catfight! (dubbing The [...]

The Moon-Rays are the B Movie Lounge/Surf/Jazz House Band. Their superior CDs so far include Thrills and Chills, The Ghouls Go West (featuring my theme song, “Thrillville”) and Sinister Surf, all amazing amalgams of sci-fi surf, hipster horror and drive-in delirium, retro-cool but timelessly toe-tapping sonic cocktails served straight up with a twang and sometimes [...]

David Hess may scare you on the screen but he’s a pussycat in person. He can roar and hiss, sure, but he can also purr like the talented tiger of many stripes he is. David was already an accomplished musician before he was offered the defining role of his film career, the amoral killer/rapist Krug [...]