Konga
Dr. Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. During…
Five Quick Questions with Christy Savage – Trash Film Orgy
The Trash Film Orgy (TFO) crew Christy Savage, Darin Wood, and Amy Slockbower, provide fans with a fun interactive show that consists of games, musical numbers, skits, dancing, etc. in addtion to the main feature film. Christy and Darin been…
An Interview With Frank Henenlotter
“The New York I grew up in and love doesn’t exist anymore,” says Frank Henelotter, cult icon of exploitation cinema, director of Basket Case and Brain Damage, and in Edinburgh as guest of honour at this year’s Dead By Dawn…
Warhol’s Mead Passes
The previous year Warhol had arrived in Hollywood with Mead, staying for two weeks at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Warhol used his new silent 16mm Bolex movie camera to shoot his first partially scripted feature, Tarzan and Jane Regained……
Horror fans come out for B-movie
VHS horror fans got their gore on at the Sherman Theater on Saturday. Anyone who still owns a video cassette player could have had a thrill looking through some of the dusty copies of mainstream movies, but most of the…
A Look At The Lfe Of Ray Harryhausen
Earlier today we learned of the death of Ray Harryhausen, the special-visual-effects specialist whose name practically became a synonym for the art of stop-motion animation. As a young man, Harryhausen was inspired by the work of Hollywood animation pioneer Willis…
B Movie Theatre
Three-headed dinosaurs. Slime creatures from another planet. Time-travelling scientists. All of the above figure in Ramshackle Theatre’s Sci-Fi Double Feature, and if it sounds like the stuff of long-ago drive-in movies, that’s the point. Calling from a break during technical…
Bollywood Zombies
The cliche about waiting a long time for a bus to come and then three arriving all at once also applies to Bollywood zombie movies, it seems. The Saif Ali Khan-starrer Go Goa Gone opens on Thursday, the same day…
Rise Of The Zombies
The Machete star Danny Trejo stars in a horror about a group of zombie apocalypse survivors taking refuge in Alcatraz prison, fighting for survival when the undead discover them. Taking inspiration from the TV show The Walking Dead, the film…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Begins Shooting
Twentieth Century Fox announced that principal photography is underway on Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed…
“Birdemic 2: The Resurrection” Five Quick Questions with Alan Bagh
The first Birdemic started a Birdemican cult. “Birdemic 2: The Resurrection”, far exceeded my expectations and that cult is sure to grow. Producer, director, writer James Nguyen along with producer Jeff Gross and actor Alan Bagh, were traveling between…
Google Honors Saul Bass
Saul Bass celebration animates Google’s name in several different styles, playing on the designer’s best-known credit sequences. Google has marked the birthday of Saul Bass with one of the search engine’s most elaborate “doodles” yet – an animated sequence based…
Ray Harryhausen Rest in Peace
Stop motion pioneer Ray Harryhausen died in London today, May 7th. Harryhausen was born in June 1920, and developed an interest in stop motion animation after seeing the 1933 version of King Kong. According to the obituary released by the…
Ressurecting AIP?
A trio of Hollywood veterans are teaming up to reinvent 1950s B-movies from the American International Pictures library. Producer Lou Arkoff, writer-producer Jeff Katz and ICM alum Hal Sadoff have joined forces on the venture, which will reimagine the AIP…
A disastrous summer ahead for the movies
Enjoy the summer movie season like it’s your last. Hollywood is doubling down on one of its most durable themes this year: doomsday. Apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic and dystopian futures will be busting out all over multiplexes like never before. Already in…
Upcoming “Way Down in Chinatown”
“A playwright and his director wife are trying to produce a great play, while the world around them is slowly ending.” The movie’s acting, settings, and effects give the audience a sense of being at an actual play. When we…
RobotMonkeyArm
RobotMonkeyArm is a multimedia project of the mind. A series of imaginary films, comic books, and novels all represented only through the music that creator Ryan Baker has written, it’s a cinematic mix of surf rock, Italian Western, and B-movie…
White House Down
Yes, the White House already got overrun by terrorists in movie theaters in 2013. You’re seeing double. Releasing dueling movies like “Armageddon” and “Deep Impact” or “Tombstone” and “Wyatt Earp” (or even “Volcano” and “Dante’s Peak,” for good measure) make…
Dead Man Down
The original Swedish film of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo was no masterpiece, but it turned Noomi Rapace into an international star, and it gave its director, Niels Arden Oplev, the pick of every screenplay in Hollywood for his…
The Amazing Adventures Of Victoria Clarke
s movie studios tighten their grip on development, Hollywood producers must search for creative ways to bring their ideas to life, and many see internet crowdfunding as the future of independent story development. Film and Video projects are the most…