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Foundational Cinema

Month: November 2013

Full Moon

Starting in the seventies, Band formed Charles Band Productions. Dissatisfied with distributors’ handling of his films, Band created Empire Pictures in the early eighties. Through Empire, he could produce and distribute his films ensuring proper distribution and return on profits….

Simply Wild About Carrie

In a particularly jarring 2004 episode of the Canadian high school drama Degrassi, a bullied student is publicly humiliated when his assailants dump paint and feathers on him onstage in front of his entire school. In response, he goes home…

‘Clown Fatale’ a B-movie homage

These women do not clown around. With colorful coifs, revealing attire and, in one instance, a whole heap of crazy, four female circus performers are mistaken for contract killers and then decide on a change of career paths in Clown…

Chopping Mall Will Have A Theatrical Re-Release

Yep, you have read that headline correctly. The Eighties classic Chopping Mall could very well be dismantling the flesh of teenagers at a theatre near you soon, and we have your first details. From the Press Release On March 21st,…

Comedy Club In Long Island Goes B

The Long Island City comedy club is offering classic B movies and comedy cult classics during weekend brunch and special Wednesday screenings in addition to its regular schedule of live standup comedy performances. The new offering is part of an…

Buddy Gray, R.I.P. – Memphis Movie MVP

As the above pictures suggest, Howard “Buddy” Gray — or “H.G. Ray,” to borrow his frequent professional pseudonym — did not crave the limelight. He was happier behind the scenes and out of camera range, folding his Ichabod Crane frame…

‘Grindhouse’ To The Comic Shop

‘Malley on November 11, 2013 at 2:07 pm GrindhouseCover1 CREDIT: Dark Horse Comics Comics have always had a reputation for being bad from you; the industry still bears some of the scars from Fredrick Wertham’s Seduction of the Innocent, leaving…

The Last Ever Blockbuster Rental Was…

Blockbuster ended in-store rentals for good on Saturday night. So what was the final movie rental ever? Incredibly appropriately, it was Seth Rogen comedy This Is the End, checked out at 11pm in Hawaii, according to a tweet by the…

Rat Pfink a Boo Boo

Rat Pfink A Boo Boo is a hard title to review properly. It’s a film I give one star in terms of actual filmmaking, whether it be acting, writing, editing or even making any coherent sense. But I give it…

Queen of Outer Space

American astronauts are drawn by a mysterious force to the planet Venus, which they find to be inhabited only by beautiful women and their despotic queen. “Vimmen cannot be happy vizout man!” Thus spake Zsa Zsa Gabor, the most unlikely…

Black Christmas

1974’s Black Christmas is one of the most important Canadian horror films ever made, a decidedly gimmick-free spookshow that weaves terror and humor into a festive holiday package. Not only is it of interest to Canuxploitation enthusiasts for the Canadian…

The Hammer

Born in Gary, Indiana, on March 5, 1937 (some sources cite 1938 as his date of birth), Fred ‘Hammer’ Williamson grew up in Gary and graduated from Froebel High School in 1955. He enrolled at Northwestern University, where he played…

Five Million Years to Earth

‘Five Million Years to Earth’ is the US title for the British film, ‘Quartermass and the Pit’. It’s based on a BBC six-part TV serial, broadcast in December 1958 and January 1959. There were two prior TV series, The Quartermass…

The Creeping Terror

This 74-minute stink bomb is produced and directed by A.J. Nelson, alias Vic Savage, who also stars in the lead role. Savage plays Martin Gordon, a deputy in Angel County, Calif., which is nonexistent, just like we wish this movie…

The Effusive Greydon Clark

GREYDON CLARK is a renaissance man of B movie cinema – actor/writer/producer & more over four decades of delectable decadence (and counting). Here is a brief but illuminating Q&A with this genre giant: Will the Thrill: Any standout memory or…

A Few Moments With Kelli Maroney

Kelli Maroney plays cute and tough, bad and beautiful better than anyone. In “Fast Times At Ridgemont High” her character intrepidly stands up for school spirit during a rally. In the cult zombie classic “Night of the Comet” she wields…

Netflix Announce 4 Live-Action Marvel Series

Marvel will now dominate all media. Having conquered the multiplex, currently holding down TV with “Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.” (even as the show finds its footing), the next move for Marvel is streaming into the homes of fans everywhere with the…

Dogs of Hell

Independent star / producer Earl Owensby 3D fable “Rottweiler: Dogs from Hell” is a trashy, but mildly fun cheap-jack little animals run amok horror enterprise. I saw this one when I was only a kid and certain scenes had stayed…

Zombie Prom

Boy meets girl. Girl loves boy, but parents disapprove. Boy commits suicide at a nuclear-power plant but returns as a zombie — just in time to take girl to the big dance. Zombie Prom, opening tonight in the Drake Center’s…

Army Of Darkness Sequel a No Go

Right, someone needs to make up their minds about whether this film is happening or not. Despite telling people that Army of Darkness 2 was going ahead (not to mention Fede Alverez also saying it was happening), Ash Williams himself…