Action Jackson (1988)
“Action Jackson” is an action movie starring Carl Weathers. Former pro football player-turned actor Weathers (he earned a degree in theater arts from San Diego State U. before segueing into a brief stint with the Oakland Raiders and a Canadian…
The Day Time Ended (1979)
Considering it was made on a low budget, THE DAY TIME ENDED manages to make the most of its budget with some surprisingly good special effects work. The story involves a family who are about to move into their solar-powered…
The Tenant (1976)
This is a wonderfully tense and intensely claustrophobic film with a slowly escalating and relentless psychologically terror. Roman Polanski stays true to his style from Rosemary’s Baby and Repulsion. But this movie is more than a simple examination of the…
Maniac (2012)
Since I have not seen the original Maniac (1980) hence this movie for me had no prerequisite anticipatory factor attached to it. Also since slasher movie genre doesn’t hold so much of a charm on me so I took this…
The Playmates in Deep Vision 3-D (1974)
What can I say about this movie? I have seen it at least 30 times and it’s one of my favorite films. It’s both good and bad. Bad for people who expect too much from a shoe string budget 3D…
Movie Review: Little Dead Rotting Hood
Moviegoers have been down the fairy-tale remake road numerous times before, with mixed results. But Little Dead Rotting Hood is told in a competent new way that grabs the audience’s throat from the opening scene and never lets go. The…
Zombeavers (2014)
This movie pretty much delivers on its promise; anybody who watches something with THIS title expecting serious genre fare is sorely misguided. As this kind of cheesy, self-spoofing entertainment goes, it’s actually pretty funny, enough of the time to make…
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976)
Another chilling docu-thriller from director Charles B. Pierce (who made The Ledgend of Boggy Creek in 1972), this film being his best! It’s 1946, in the small town of Texarkana, Texas-Arkansas a hooded murderer is terrorizing the community and making…
Popcorn (1991)
Maggie, a film student at University, continuously wakes up with one bad dream after another involving some bearded wacko, which she records about on a tape, so to come up with some sort of screenplay. Her film teacher and fellow…
Blind Fury (1989)
BLIND FURY is one of those guilty pleasure films. The late Chicago film critic Gene Siskel cited it as such during a broadcast of the show he co-hosted with Roger Ebert several years ago. It is not a great film,…
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
The shining glory of Producer/Director Dan Curtis’s career came in 1983 when he transformed Herman Wouk’s acclaimed World war 2 novel “The Winds of War” into an epic television miniseries. But it was during the late 60s and 70s that…
Children of the Corn (1984)
This is a really disappointing adaptation of an excellent and terrifying short story which appeared as part of American horror novelist Stephen King’s first anthology of short stories, 1978’s ‘Night Shift’. King’s story offers a dreadful sense of growing unease…
In Praise Of Haskell Wexler
If a common thread exists in American cinema, at some point two names rises to the forefront, the grandmother of editors and of the New American cinema, Verna Fields and the cinematographer Haskell Wexler. Haskell passed on from this earth…
Digital Crack: The Issue With VPF’s
Due to the digitization of movie theatres and the introduction of the VPF system the whole business model for distributors and exhibitors has changed and not for the better. In some countries where industry representatives created their own VPF system…
Raw Meat (1972)
“Raw Meat” (aka “Death Line”) is a truly unsettling experience, a low budget effort that uses its own limitations to achieve a gritty effect. The aspects of filth and decay in this movie are absolutely unnerving, and while the story…
Target Earth (1954)
“Target Earth” is a a potential minor classic that falls short when the screenplay falters and the budget just can’t back up the proper execution of the scenario. The director can be proud of the first ten minutes or so….
Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)
Ah, Christmas. Although it has become increasingly commercialized and sometimes appears to be nothing more than a huge crash-grab for multi-million dollar corporations, Christmas have remained popular year after year. While the underlying message the holiday carries with it of…
Black Christmas (1973)
Released and ignored in 1973, “Black Christmas” became a forgotten classic. The Canadian shocker was eventually re-released as “Silent Night, Evil Sight” in order to avoid confusion with the blaxploitation films of the time, but it bombed once again. In…
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)
I think it’s safe to assume we have a new and very strong contender for the title of greatest Christmas themed horror movie ever made. Although it has to be said that the Finnish treat “Rare Exports” is not exactly…
Santa’s Slay (2005)
“Santa’s Slay” is a mildly impressive little slasher-comedy set during the cheerful holiday season. The film opens with a hilarious Christmas dinner gone wrong, and we are then introduced to Nicholas Yulesone, a normal teenager with a seemingly-senile grandfather. It’s…