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Foundational Cinema

Month: October 2012

The Bay Directed By Barry Levinson

Starring mostly unknown actors and shot entirely on consumer-grade (or lower) video, The Bay apes a hypothetical work of citizen journalism released on a WikiLeaks-style exposé site, documenting a fictional disaster that killed off most of the population of Claridge,…

The Monstrously Bad Guys

Tonight is Halloween. Tonight what you won’t see are kids dressed as any of the following movie evil-doers because, to be blunt, kids are far too smart to want to be any of them. In fact, just the thought that…

Innocent Scares on Halloween

RED RUM, anyone? Halloween’s the perfect time to drink a toast to scary movies. Of course, scary is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I like a good scare as much as the next gal. I’m not, though, a…

Lucas Sells The Whole Kit And Kaboodle

Disney has purchased George Lucas’ Lucasfilm LTD for $4.05 billion, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Disney will own all of LucasFilm, including its film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects and audio post-production divisions. It will also acquire the…

Five Quick Questions with Lloyd Kaufman’s Long Suffering Daughters

As we know Lloyd Kaufman is a legend for B movie horror and comedy horror.  Beyond that his wife Patricia is the executive director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development. With all the…

Five Quick Questions: Jim Wynorski

JIM WYNORSKI , International B Movie Man of Action and a native of Long Island, is a multi-talented writer/producer/director with over 70 genre films to his credit. His many B classics combining the Basics of Breasts, Blood and Beasts include…

Back To Our Roots:A B Movie Manifesto

Movies are changing, and not for the better. Today we are barraged by an amazing cascade of computer generated effects, shots are slowed down and then sped up scoffing at the laws of physics in order to accentuate a punch…

Suspiria

Suspiria(1977) is given its cult status in the USA partialy due to the extreme usage of colors. The colors in Suspiria(1977) gives it an artful flavor that makes the movie beautiful to watch. Argento uses the colors of blue, green,…

Dario

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk…

B Movie News

Gila! Releases Poster And Trailer

In preparation for the American Film Market , are are please to release the final poster and trailer for GILA! Here is the trailer for our remake of the Giant Gila Monster [v=7vvbM6ZwxQE]

I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)

Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the shrink who hypnotizes him and turns him into a raging lycanthrope. Yvonne Lime , who co-starred with Elvis the same year in…

El Stinko:Piranha 3DD

After the calamitous events at Lake Victoria in Piranha 3D, the prehistoric piranhas set their sights on a new target: Big Wet, a water park that is set to open just in time to draw massive crowds for the start…

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…

A Rodriquez Fire And Ice Remake?

Robert Rodriguez has revealed he has personally acquired the rights to Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta’s 1983 animated feature “Fire And Ice” with hopes of adapting it into a live-action film through his Troublemaker Studios. “The awesome Ralph Bakshi and…

A Gun And A Donkey

This paella/spaghetti western of director Manuel Esteba is the proud owner of a unique record – it’s easily the one with the most remarkable differences between two available versions. The Italian edit (the one that was dubbed into English and…

Wolfman Mac

Wolfman Mac is B-movie and horror aficionado Mac Kelly, host of “Chiller Drive-In,” a sitcom about a werewolf who owns a drive-in and shows classic horror and sci-fi films. The show, produced in Pontiac at Erebus haunted attraction, is nationally…

Florida Is Going B Crazy

What’s with the sudden B-movie fascination in South Florida? Over the last several months, a handful of local theaters and art spaces have been transformed into houses of horror, screening what could be described as the anti-Hollywood film: the B-movie….

Five Quick 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 Quick 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…

Maestro Mario Bava

Mario Bava was born on July 30, 1914, in San Remo, Italy. The son of cinematographer/special effects designer Eugenio Bava, young Mario grew up surrounded by film. So strong was his father’s influence on him that Mario gave up his…