Best Thanksgiving B Movies
Blood Freak (1972) Okay, so this movie doesn’t revolve around Thanksgiving, but it does revolve around a deranged man with a mutant turkey head killing people. Still interested? Read on. This movie is probably the hardest movie to find, I…
Help Us Promote Gila!
Hey want to see GILA! gracing the SYFY channel. maybe give them a little nudge about you wanting to see this Wynorski classic on the SYFY Channel …and of course your undying appreciation for doing so. Please write them at…
’40 Days and Nights’ Coming Soon
’40 Days and Nights’ is the newest disaster film by The Asylum due out November 27th. “When a colossal tectonic shift causes the sea level to start rising, a microbiologist gathers the DNA of as many species as she can,…
Mockbuster Malady
Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, MGM and The Hobbit producer Saul Zaentz want to stop them using the word Hobbit in the title of the “knockoff film”. They claim The Asylum is “free-riding” on the worldwide promotional campaign for Peter…
Best and Worst B Movie Monsters
It’s been hailed as B-Movie campalicious because it boasts what is supposedly the lamest monster ever committed to celluloid. Robot Monster, the 1953 science-fiction schlocker, famously features a bloke in a gorilla suit wearing a diving helmet tormenting pretty ladies….
The Pharoah’s Curse
Nicknamed “Roll ‘Em” Sholem for his unpretentious efficiency, director Lee Sholem had worked with Tarzan, Superman, Jungle Jim, Ma and Pa Kettle and Tobor the Great by the time he wrapped his head around his first and only “mummy” movie,…
The Highest of Low Standards: How ‘MST3K’ Picked Movies to Mock
by Benjamin Vigeant The scene, as I remember it, is like this: Ally Farson is in the kitchen with her emotionally abusive mother having a lengthy argument. Ally, as we’ve learned earlier, is fairly unhinged and has recently started a…
Red Dawn
Red Dawn is generic as it gets. And that’s the good part. The cinematography, pacing (especially in the first 55 minutes), and storytelling is cohesive as a Donald Trump speech – an incoherent rant. But for those that fantasize about…
Five Quick Questions with Writer Mike MacLean
The instant classics ‘Sharktopus’, ‘Dinocroc vs. Supergator’, ‘Piranhaconda’, and ‘Attack of the 50ft Cheerleader’ began with the screenplays written by Mike MacLean. Mike is a family man and a talented writer that can write hybrid horror creatures, a comical giant…
Corman In Tucson
Since selling his first script in 1953, Roger Corman has made more than 400 films and distributed countless others, so it’s safe to say he’s been a busy man for the last 60 or so years. • Even at the…
Piranaconda Hits DVD
Fans of Roger Corman rejoice! Piranhaconda has been unleashed and its making its way to a DVD near you! Yep, mark this date down, January 7, 2013 see’s the release of Roger Corman produced flick Piranhaconda, and we have the…
No No Troma:Father’s Day in Australia
Australia has banned the release of North American horror comedy Father’s Day, about a man intent on avenging his father’s killing. The film was directed by Adam Brooks and produced by Canada’s Astron-6, with global distribution by Troma Entertainment. The…
The Manborg Embrace
If Halloween is about dressing up in strange costumes and creating questionable, gory entertainment, the zero-budget movie Manborg may be your best haunting season choice for 2012. After all, dressing up and acting out is what the local film collective…
The Fantastic Four: Revenge of the Invisible Film
With the triumphant arrival of Captain America, another comic-book superhero has made his mark at the movies. Frankly, I’ve not enough of a comic-book geek to fully appreciate films like this one. When I was Roger Corman’s story editor at…
Maria Ford, and a Pier without Peer
On a beautiful early fall day, just as the sun was slipping into the Pacific Ocean, I found myself in one of my favorite L.A. places, the Santa Monica Pier. Yes, the pier is the home of that brilliantly colorful…
THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1963)
My dear, departed friend, cult movie god RAY DENNIS STECKLER was a frequent guest at my live Thrillville show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias “Cash Flagg” hood) around…
The Mother Of Modern American Cinema:Verna Fields
Verna Fields was an American film editor, film and television sound editor, educator, and entertainment industry executive. Fields edited more than thirty motion pictures, including Peter Bogdanovich’s golden period of What’s Up, Doc ? (1972), Paper Moon (1973), and Daisy…
Make-Up Giant Rick Baker Gets Star On Hollywood Walk Of Fame
The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce will honor makeup artist Rick Baker with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on November 30, 2012, at 11:30 a.m. at 6764 Hollywood Boulevard in front of The Guinness World Records Museum. “We…
The Night Child
After the softcore-thriller world of Super Bitch, director Massimo Dallamano went on to dabble in the dark world of Satanism and demonic possession with The Night Child – Italy’s answer to The Exorcist (though you won’t see child star Nicoletta…
The Biology of B-Movie Monsters
BY | Michael C. LaBarbera Michael C. LaBarbera is a professor in Organismal Biology & Anatomy, Geophysical Sciences, the Committee on Evolutionary Biology, and the College of the University of Chicago. Size has been one of the most popular themes…