Gila! and Five Quick Questions with Jim Wynorski
The premiere of ‘Gila!’ at the B Movie Celebration packed the theatre with fans, filmmakers, actors, actresses, and crew members. The entire cast and crew shared their filming experiences with friends and family before and after the film. After the…
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…
Little Shop Of Horrors
Funny, sexy black comedy shot by “King of the B’s” Roger Corman on a landmark budget of 27 000 and in landmark time of only 2 days! Its the funniest movie i’ve seen from 1960 or before, and between this…
Ms. Caroline Munro
Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Catholic Convent School. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a “Face of the Year” competition…
Sharknado Is Real
While many of us this week are still dealing with the crippling aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we should all take a moment and be thankful that it wasn’t worse. It could’ve been a Sharknado. What’s a Sharknado? An upcoming movie…
The Ghastly Love of Johnny X
“They sing! They dance! They’re juvenile delinquents from outer space!” Paul Bunnell’s “The Ghastly Love of Johnny X” is a lovingly demented homage to 1950s sci-fi and beach-bop cinema, the kind of movie destined for a long and fruitful afterlife…
5 Quick Questions with Whitney Moore – Birdemic
Anyone that can put a movie together deserves tons of credit, the blood, sweat and tears that go into making a movie must be praised no matter what….usually. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrxZblVUkMU ‘Birdemic Shock and Terror’ was the most recent Rifftrax simulcast and…
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…
Pitch Your Story Idea To The Asylum
PITCH SUBMISSION We are seeking pitches for the following genres ONLY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily Hispanic-American cast. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTION: Action movie with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO ACTION:…
Machete In Court
The owner of the “Machete” action movie sued the makers of an upcoming sequel for more than $2 million, claiming they lied about the budget to avoid paying producer fees. Overnight Productions and Machete’s Chop Shop Inc. sued Machete Kills…
The Big Cheese: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians
There is a real movie called “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” Just let that sink in for a minute. In 1964, adults with careers used real money and real effort (well, real money anyway) to make a movie called “Santa…
Duncan Jax, Super Spy
This movie introduces us to superspy, adventurer, and uh…ninja, Duncan Jax (played by Ian Hunter, not the Mott the Hoople singer, although that may have been more interesting). We are about to embark on a spy-ninja-pulp adventure featuring Jax and…
The Vulture
1967, Starring Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford. Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Only the second full-length horror film to be produced in Canada (the first being the trippy 3-D flick The Mask, released in 1961), 1967’s The Vulture is one…
Cashing In On The Eighties
If I’d known the ’80s were so great, I’d have paid more attention while I was living through them. But they must have been because, for the past couple of years, Hollywood has been remaking and “rebooting” movies from the…
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…
Remakes Are Bad Business
I went to see RED DAWN and was bitterly disappointed. Studios are fixated on the idea of pre-sold or recognizable brands abdd sometimes they rely too much on those brands. But it’s still much easier to make a buck on….
A Monster Of An Interview
An Interview with Gila by Robert Hood: RH: Welcome once again to the Backbrain, Gila. How’s it feel now that the film’s in the can and has even premiered. Gila: Feels great! I got a bigger hole in the ground…
The Golden Turkey Awards
The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved. The book awards the fictional “Golden Turkey Awards” to films judged by the authors as poor in quality, and to directors and…