Screech of the Decapitated – Review of a B Movie Cult Classic
Once in a great while, filmmakers encourage each and every cast and crew member to provide input and to add their creativity and quirks to their film to make it a group effort. That was the case for the film…
Five Easy Questions: STUART GORDON
“It’s hard to get ahead in this economy…” STUART GORDON is one of the few current filmmakers whose work will be studied, with appropriate shock and awe, decades from now. His bold style and unique vision are thematically diverse, visually…
Five Easy Questions: ARCH HALL JR.
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…
1992 Rock and Roll Fantasy/Sorority House Party
The hottest rock star in the world is held hostage by the sorority babes on campus. Little do they know that his manager has put a hit out on the rock star and the sorority needs to protect him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0luT-fpxZ4o…
Five Quick Questions with Laurene Landon
While on stage in 3rd grade, Laurene had parents cheering her loudly for her femme fatale role in a play. That moment she knew she was destined to be an actress. At the same age she also realized she won’t…
Post Impact
The 2004 “Post Impact” sounded like an entertaining low budget disaster movie to watch. Unlike most B movies beginning with an immediate disaster, kill or nudity shot we’re given the story and learn about a few characters prior to the…
Mutant Vampire Zombies from the ‘Hood!
“In the wake of a solar flare of unusual properties, a mismatched group of inner-city survivors must put aside their animosity to escape a Los Angeles now free of gang-bangers, but infested instead with blood-sucking zombies.” http://www.youtube.com/watch?[v=G2Pms5ft034] “Mutant Vampire Zombies…
1981 Scanners
David Cronenberg has been writing, directing, producing, editing, along with other jobs since the sixties and still continues to write and direct. “Scanners” is still high on my list of 80’s movies. We already know the storyline, but here it is….
Claudia Jennings
Claudia was getting her life back on track as she was kicking her drug habit, got out of a rocky relationship, and was working on not getting into altercations with cast members or directors on set. She was leaving behind…
Five Quick Questions w/ Bill Rebane (THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION)
Baron Bill Rebane is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for low budget horror movies such as Twist Craze and The Giant Spider Invasion. Rebane also ran for Governor of Wisconsin in 1979 and 2002…
The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg burst onto the international filmmaking scene with the freaky 1976 horror film Shivers, which he quickly followed up with Rabid (1977). Both of these films were heavily subsidized by the Canadian government (as were Cronenberg’s earlier experimental feature…
The War of the Gargantuas
The 1968 film directed and screenplay by Ishiro Honda is entertaining. If you’re a B Movie fan you’ll appreciate the film quite a bit and pay no attention to the plastic army guys in toy tanks and the string on the…
The Movie Title Stills Collection
It’s not often that we take a close look at the opening titles for a film. Sometimes, we arrive late to the theater and miss them entirely…and if we’re at home, they offer a great opportunity to put the butter…
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven began his directing career in 1972 with the seminal The Last House on the Left, a gut-wrenching, cinéma vérité-style horror film that got up close and personal with unsuspecting audiences, setting a new standard for terror on the…
West Coast Premieres of “Mil Mascaras vs. the Aztec Mummy” & “Stomp! Shout! Scream!” Sept. ’09
Poster by Strephon Taylor Monogram Releasing publicist/B Movie Nation co-administrator Will “the Thrill’ Viharo is taking his “Thrillville” cult movie cabaret on the road this Fall with the West Coast premieres of two Monogram releases, the all new Mexican monster…
Five Easy Questions: Amazing author/historic horror host JOHN STANLEY
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…
Five Easy Questions: THE CZAR OF NOIR, EDDIE MULLER
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…
Five Easy Questions: TURA SATANA
There are Legends, there are Icons, there are Super-women – and then there is TURA SATANA, the immortal star of Russ Meyer’s masterpiece Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1965) as well as many other cult classics, who boldly embodies all three…
Five Easy Questions: TED V. MIKELS
Monica Tiki Goddess, Ted V Mikels, Will the Thrill, Vegas, October 2001 The term “living legend” tends to get overused, but in the case of TED V. MIKELS, it can’t be overstated. Ted is the Energizer Bunny of grindhouse…