Ticker (2001)
Ticker is a strange movie. It starts out promising, with a good cast, nice story and lots of action. Especially after watching “Out for a kill” which I did 2 weeks ago, this one seems to be much better. And…
Caliber 9 (1972)
Milano Calibro 9/Milan Calibre 9(1972) contains a fast paced tightly edited prologue that is done with brilliance. The opening five minutes are both brutal and sadistic. Rocco played by Mario Adorf is introduced in the prologue as a psychotic mafia…
Shadowchaser (1992)
When Romulus the android (Zagarino) comes to life after a lot of clacking on computers, he and his henchmen decide to take an entire hospital hostage. Naturally, the President’s daughter (Foster) is in the hospital. Apparently this is happening because…
China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
Named after a mysterious signpost in Beaumont, southeast Texas, set between U.S. 90 and the adjacent Southern Pacific railroad tracks, that inexplicably reads “China 9 Liberty 37”, with the genre fading quick into obscurity in both sides of the Atlantic,…
The Underground (1997)
`The Underground’ has a simple plot about a detective on a case of a trio of guys that wear Abraham Lincoln masks as they murder up and coming rap stars. The rap stars all have a connection to a shady…
Rulers of the City (1976)
“Rulers of the City” is enjoyable for fans of the Italian crime flick, with a fast moving story and a sense of humour to let you know that it’s never taking itself too seriously. The actors are all good and…
The Apocalypse (1997)
Sandra Bernhard is terribly miscast in this five hundredth derivation of `Alien’. Whining and sneering her way through this movie, she sounds ridiculously unconvincing spouting the technical mumbo-jumbo necessary for science fiction films. She aint no Sigourney Weaver, that’s for…
Dolls (1987)
Stuart Gordon. The name is synonymous with gruesome acts of myrth, gore, violence and other on screen mayhem. Normally his films are loaded with buckets of blood and gore, yet somehow in the middle of all the gory mayhem he…
Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (1974)
I believe Sam Peckinpah to be one of the most underrated directors in modern American cinema. We praise Scorcese to the sky (albeit deservedly) for ultra-violent work like Taxi Driver, yet tend to dismiss Peckinpah as a shallow director of…
Cyborg Cop (1993)
CYBORG COP is an entertaining low-rent beat ’em up with a sci-fi twist. It’s a classic piece of B-movie fare, featuring all the usual elements we’ve come to expect (and love) from our cult films: a muscled, posturing hero (David…
Black Demons (1991)
This film is supposedly the second sequel to Lamberto Bava’s fun eighties trash flick ‘Demons’, although I’d say it’s more like a lacklustre version of Lucio Fulci’s zombie masterpiece ‘Zombie Flesh-Eaters’. Umberto Lenzi is undoubtedly one of Italy’s most diverse…
The Church (1989)
Michele Soavi (born in 1957 in Italy) began as an assistant director for Dario Argento and the late exploitation king Aristide Massacessi before finally having the opportunity, by Aristide, to direct his first feature film, Deliria aka Stage Fright in…
Demons (1985)
With a pounding heavy metal score accented by a phenomenal opening track from Dario Argento’s band Goblin, DEMONS grips from the onset and never stops, despite a paper- thin plot that appears as if the filmmakers made it up as…
Awaken’s Natalie Burn
Natalie Burn’s parents enrolled her in a gymnastics class in Ukraine at the age of four. The hard work and training Natalie endured in gymnastics was instilled into her and it was the beginning of her competitive and ambitious life….
Alien Intruder (1993)
Welcome to the grim future. The year is 2022. Aboard the U.S.S. Holly in outer space, mild mannered crew member Borman (Jeff Conaway) has apparently gone berserk. For no logical reason, Borman has callously slaughtered his own men… Back on…
Screwballs II (1985)
Four twenty-year olds who have been stuck in the twelfth grade for four years because of all the babes they continue to score with are sent by their fed-up principal to a “special school” in the summer to supposedly teach…
Beneath Still Waters (2005)
The picture packs thrills, chills , terror and lots of blood and gore . Horror and fantasy based on a novel “Beneath Still Waters” by Matthew Costello with screenplay by Angel Sala , though partially inspired by the master H.P….
King of the Ants (2003)
Stuart Gordon, considered a master of the horror genre thanks to classics like Re-Animator and Dagon, decides to do a different move in this strange trip to human morals. “King of the Ants” is about a regular guy, Sean Crawley(newcomer…
From Beyond (1986)
Two scientists create a machine that enlarges the penial gland(the supposed location of the third or “mind’s eye” which Descartes called “the seat of the soul” and Bataille called “the blind spot of western rationality”) and are able to glimpse…
Basket Case (1982)
This movie is a classic. That’s all there is to it. You need to watch it. You need to go watch it now. If you don’t know what it’s about, protect your innocence, get a bunch of friends and a…