Skinheads (1989)
A small group of skinheads led by Damon (Brophy) are apparently tired of harassing elderly store owners, so they take a skinhead vacation to the rural mountains. When further harassment of the locals such as restaurant owner Martha (Bain) leads…
Five (1951)
‘Five’ is the sort of science fiction I enjoy: long on ideas, short on rayguns and F/X. That’s very likely why the movie flopped: most filmgoers seem to think that science fiction should have a big special-effects budget and no…
Midnight 2
A sequel shot on video from director John Russo has a psychopath, Abraham(Matthew Jason Walsh taking the place of John Amplas from the first film), the only survivor of those backwoods Satanist killers from the first film, is hunting victims…
Don Knotts
Don Knotts, the legendary television character actor, was born Jesse Donald Knotts on July 21, 1924 in Morgantown, West Virginia, to William Jesse Knotts and the former Elsie L. Moore. He was the youngest of four sons in a family…
Black Shampoo (1976)
I got a fair amount of entertainment out of this diverting if forgettable blaxploitation entry, but then I approached the whole thing looking at it as tongue in cheek. If one were to take it seriously, they might well find…
Hemoglobin (1997)
Bleeders is, in a single word, baffling. It features a competent cast, including the always fantastic Rutger Hauer, and a bunch of unknowns who provide us with far better performances than we generally have inflicted upon us in low-budget straight-to-video…
Humanoids From The Deep
“Humanoids” is not the most obscure horror film on Netflix, but it’s one of those movies that haunted late night cable back in the ’80s, and always seemed to be on the shelves at mom and pop video stores. For…
The Giant Spider Invasion
This low-budget film about huge spiders attacking the town of Merrill, Wisconsin, was one of the top 50 highest-grossing films of 1975. Since its theatrical release, “The Giant Spider Invasion” has seen four major runs on television and has become…
My Bloody Valentine
There’s a big valentine-party planned in the little coal mining town of Valentine Bluffs, Nova Scotia. It is the first Valentine’s Day party in 20 years, because then there was an accident in the mine, and the accident happened because…
The Burning (1981)
“The Burning” showed up on Showtime late one night, as I’ve noticed many rare films have (one time, I saw a really strange Italian action-adventure movie from the 80s, complete with bad dubbing and all) so I decided to tape…
Sharknado 3 Is D.C. Bound
The iconic image of big-screen Washington destruction — the White House getting blown to smithereens at the hands of aliens in “Independence Day” — will have some competition. This time, it’s death by sharks. The Syfy channel on Monday announced that Washington…
Tourist Trap
Tourist Trap is a film that upon its initial 1979 release seemed destined for cinema obscurity where it would forever remain due to poor numbers at the box office. However, through repeat airings on late night cable throughout the 1980’s…
Prom Night
For six long years, Hamilton High School seniors Kelly Lynch, Jude Cunningham, Wendy Richards and Nick McBride have been hiding the truth of what happened to ten-year-old Robin Hammond the day her broken body was discovered near an abandoned convent….
Rollergator (1996)
A very nice and funny independent production, a road movie on Rollerblades: Sandra Shuker plays a young woman who finds a talking baby alligator (I’m not a baby, I’m almost twelve)who is running away from a fair market owner (Joe…
Leprechaun in the Hood (2000)
Three up and coming rappers (Postmaster P, Stray Bullet, Butch) decide to rob the studio of a record label mogul, but they end up wakening the Leprechaun instead in “Leprechaun In The Hood”. It begins with Ice T’s character “Mack…
Monster Squad
The Monster Squad opened in theaters in 1987 to a moderate lukewarm reception. The film was wrongly classified by many as the Goonies meet Universal Monsters. The film also treaded a line between horror and childhood fantasy, a rather difficult…
Tank Girl (1995)
It is the year 2033 and it has been a difficult 10 or so years since a comet hit Earth, wiping out most of the population and changing the eco-system to the point that it hasn’t rained since. With such…
Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984)
Nothing in the world can prepare you for Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo. No description does it justice, no warning truly gives you an idea of what you are in store for. Few movies are as bizarre, yet oddly compelling at…
The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
Back in 1985 this movie was deemed “unreleasable” by its studio. They (purportedly) re cut it and quietly opened it. To their surprise it was a sizable hit leading to two sequels. I saw it twice when it came out–this…
Entering The Asylum
In an undisclosed location in beautiful downtown Burbank sits to ramshackle building that house that B Movie Juggernaut, the Asylum. Actually they list their address on their webpage so I guess it’s not much of a secret. Sitting outside these…