The Crater Lake Monster (1977)
A claymation plesiosaur rises from the depths of Crater Lake to wreak havoc on a group of local rednecks, not to mention your fast forward button. To call “The Crater Lake Monster” amateurish is to overstate the obvious. If you…
The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)
If I were to say the name “Albert Pyun”, chances are pretty good you’d draw a blank. “Cyborg”? Uhh, isn’t that a Van Damme film or something? Yeah. “Radioactive Dreams”? Cult movie from the 80s maybe? Sci-fi? Yup. Same guy…
Mean Guns (1997)
“Mean Guns” is a great movie as far as action goes. Christopher Lambert and Ice-T are really the only two big names in the movie. The rest of the cast is either virtually unknown or relatively unexperienced in the action…
Blast (1997)
At the time of the Atlanta Olympics the FBI stopped a potential terrorist attack, this film is what might have happened if they hadn’t. Terrorist plant bombs all over the Olympic buildings and take the USA women’s swimming team hostage….
Omega Doom (1996)
Most people would tell you that this flick stinks because it’s got poor special effects or the plot seems to be vague. Frankly, you can’t judge it next to A-list movies. It’s not an A-list movie. What it is though,…
Max Havoc: Curse of the Dragon (2004)
Max Havoc (Mickey Hardt) is an ex-kickboxer turned photographer who protects two attractive sisters from the Yakuza led by David Carradine. Seems that one of the sisters bought a jade dragon from dealer Richard Roundtree and after numerous awkward moments,…
Savage Beach (1989)
Savage Beach is hardly a great departure for director Andy Sidaris, yet another cheezy adventure featuring his stock-in-trade heavily armed, big breasted babes, heroic hunks and despicable bad guys; but although it’s still a long way from a work of…
Space Girls in Beverly Hills (2009)
Bad in every respect, Space Girls in Beverly Hills is the absolute nadir of ego-driven, no talent film making. All concerned are clearly having a great time but it should be illegal to inflict such suffering on a paying audience!…
Stuck on You! (1982)
This low budget “B” romance comedy is crude but it has moments of brilliance. The real find here is Mark Mikulski, a big brawny guy with a handsome boyish face playing a very dumb cluck who works in agribusiness…that is…
Tales from the Crapper (2004)
Once upon a time, Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman gave former Playboy Playmate of the Year India Allen a quarter of a million dollars to make two features shot on “crappy digital video” and starring leggy cult queen Julie Strain….
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, but wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale, though, he got introduced to “B” pictures and the works of Roger Corman. Lloyd later got the opportunity to…
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
For those that don’t know, there are intentionally “bad” movies, and then there are intentionally bad movies; “The Toxic Avenger” is the latter. Troma Entertainment is the undisputed king of bad b-pictures, but the 1985 cult hit “The Toxic Avenger”…
Malibu Hot Summer (1981)
Blah!! I love Troma. Terror Firmer is my favorite movie of all time. I love low budget movies. But this is too horrible for words. I won’t call it the worst movie of all time for 2 reasons: 1. I…
Vincent Price
Despite his lasting association with horror films, Price started out as a character actor. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger….
Little Dead Rotting Hood – Press Release
This past February, Cinedigm and The Asylum announced a deal that entailed at least a dozen “high concept” films to be produced over the next three years. One of the films in the deal is Little Dead Rotting Hood which…
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
There are two schools of thought regarding ‘Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein’. The first holds that the movie represents the nadir of the Universal Monsters cycle, with three once-great monsters reduced to playing second-fiddle to a couple of Laurel and…
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
THE MUMMY’S TOMB (Universal, 1942), directed by Harold Young, the third installment in the Mummy series, the second to feature Kharis and the first starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the living creature under wraps. A sequel to THE MUMMY’S HAND…
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Fairly good sequel of “Creature From the Black Lagoon” has the Rita II traveling back to the Amazon Basin to capture the Gill Man who survived in the earlier film from his would-be-captors or executioners. Getting the Gill Man trapped…
Millenials and The Movies
Movie Reality Check Reality can be very cruel sometimes. About four weeks ago I visited a drive-in theatre in Spencer Indiana. The drive-in was beautifully laid out, great projection and best of all a fun and well appointed concession stand….
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
One must pity the Wolf Man. Marked not only with the pentagram, but marked to never have a sequel that was all his own. A real shame, considering that even the likes of the Mummy got ‘four’ sequels. Universal begins…