The Video Dead (1987)
Two delivery men go to a quiet suburban neighborhood and deliver an old television to a writer who lives alone. Baffled by the television that he didn’t ask for, it soon starts playing a movie by itself.. Zombie Blood Nightmare….
The Incredible Petrified World (1957)
John Carradine, who had roles in The Ten Commandments and Stagecoach and Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask among his 334 films, and won awards for The Scarecrow and House of the Long…
13 Ghosts (1960)
William Castle was renowned for showman gimmicks to which he gave cheesy names, such as “Percept-O,” “Fright Break,” and “Emerg-O.” Although some of these effects were pretty silly, some were fairly complicated–and most of them relied upon the communal nature…
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
Doctor Who was written by Terry Nation (1930 – 1997), amongst others, who before his inauguration into the Doctor Who franchise, and personally creating the Dalek, was already writing for television, with works as The Saint with Roger Moore and…
5th Passenger
Directed by: Scott Baker Written by: Scott Baker, Morgan Lariah, and David Henri Martin Starring: Marina Sirtis from Star Trek: The Next Generation , Tim Russ and Manu Intiraymi from Star Trek: Voyager, Doug Jones from Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth…
Hell on Wheels (1967)
Here’s a “no-budget” independent production designed to showcase both the singing and racing skills of good ol’ boy country crooner Marty Robbins. He’s obviously a talented singer, and apparently a passable race car driver. But he should never have attempted…
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
The sets are spectacular. The Rhodes statue, with its big child-like eyes, is a great design. The use of widescreen is excellent. Some scenes, like the one when they revel in the King’s chambers, are truly eye-filling. The memorable soundtrack…
Idaho Transfer (1973)
“Idaho Transfer” takes an extraordinary premise and places it in a nonchalant story line. Almost everything seems pedestrian and laid-back, as if time travel could be as common and ordinary as hopping on the log flume at Six Flags. The…
Cyborg 2087 (1966)
The term, cyborg, meaning cybernetic organism, relates to a human enhanced with mechanical parts, often robotic in nature. Thus gave us the first glimpse into this genre. Albeit low budget (I mean, instrumentation from the future labeled with Dymo Label…
City On Fire (1979)
Not the lemon it’s often branded, “City on Fire” is an entertaining Canadian disaster movie with a capable cast, some good sets and special effects, and better than average dialogue. Two separate fires converge to create an inferno of biblical…
Pterodactyl (2005)
Here’s the story line, I will try to give it to you straight, with an unbiased approach – a bunch of annoying US students and their dumbass lecturer are for some unknown reason in Romania when they decide it is…
George Lucas and The Death Of Movie Chains
On Sunday I usually reflect on the shifts of this business and I am in. Occasionally I share my thoughts with you. Not that I have any magic crystal ball or my opinion caries more weight than anyone else. I…
Hot Rod Girl (1956)
It’s when Jeff Northrup, John Smith, let his kid brother Steve, Del Erickson, take the wheel of his hot-rod that he was suddenly goaded into racing a fellow hot-rodder that ended in him crashing into a parked car and killing…
The Born Losers (1967)
Tom Laughlin’s 1967 film The Born Losers is not what it appears to be; good-guy defeats out-law biker gang and saves young rape victims. On the contrary, Born Losers is Laughlin’s take on the war in Viet-Nam and the effects…
The Giant Claw (1957)
Yes, ‘fraid I feel positively compelled to stand up and be counted in support of “The Giant Claw”(if only for sentimental reasons).It’s yet another of those decidedly creaky but fun Z – Grade sci fi flicks from the golden days…
Warbirds (2008)
A WASP air crew is ferrying a bomber to Hawaii in WWII. When they arrive, they’re immediately ordered to take an officer and some secret cargo to an island in the Pacific. What could the secret cargo be? It’s near…
Rabid (1977)
Rabid (1977) is a strange film about a parasitic virus that inhabit’s the body of a young woman (Marilyn Chambers). She receives this strange mutation after a new experimental procedure is performed upon her after she and her boyfriend were…
Canadian Mounties vs. Atomic Invaders (1953)
When I saw the title of this serial, I was expecting something along the lines of a cross between Ed Wood and Commando Cody. What I got was a fairly routine chapter play about a foreign power wanting to set…
The Thing With Two Heads (1972)
The head of a white bigoted doctor (sadly Ray Milland) is attached to the body of a wrongly convicted black man (Rosey Grier) on Death Row. Unfortunately, Grier’s head is still attached. It escapes from a hospital and tries to…
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
This movies outshines “Troll 2” in every respect. It puts “Plan 9 From Outer Space” and “The Room” to shame. Imagine a movie that would be created solely to give film students a paper topic on how NOT to make…