Messiah of Evil (1973)
DEAD PEOPLE (also known as MESSIAH OF EVIL, the version I saw) is a rather artistic and unusual little horror movie. The zombies in this case are flesh eaters, but the exact cause of zombification is a century-old curse upon…
Prison Heat (1993)
The story is set in Turkey and involves a group of young female tourists who are falsely imprisoned on drug trafficking charges without receiving a trial and are maliciously raped and sodomized by sadistic prison guards. The hidden message I…
Cathy’s Curse (1977)
Also known as CATHY’S CURSE, this movie was apparently an attempted cash-in on the popularity of horror movies featuring telekinetic and/or possessed young girls in the 1970’s, such as THE EXORCIST and CARRIE. This is one strange flick, and the…
Project X (1968)
The “X” in “Project X” (1968) may well stand for the X in Matrix. In this story, set 150 years after 1968, Christopher George is a spy whose memory has been wiped clean after his capture by an Asian empire…
Movie Manners
Manners At The Movies It went to a screening yesterday, (a full house of 625) of the emerging classic Christmas film ELF. In observing the audience it became more than apparent that many folks have forgotten how to behave in…
Don’t Go in the Woods (1981)
It’s hard to know where to start; the acting is abhorrent, even by badfilm standards. The ‘actors’ frequently talk over each other, repeat lines ad infinitum (one actress makes her way through the entire film with the words huh? and…
Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time (1991)
It was made for kids and teens of the late 80ies or early 90ies and as such it was truly a film of it’s time. If you hated that period, or love the first movie so much that you can’t…
The Puppet Masters (1994)
Unfortunate enough to share a name with a brand of dirt-cheap Charles Band movies (but completely disconnected from them) I always figured that The Puppet Masters would be just as schlocky. It ain’t art, but it is decent, low-brow, brainless…
Slayer (1991)
his movie is about how some boy scouts find some weapons in a house in the forest.And they take them out side so they can take them to the cops to be hero’s.But they decided to hide them outside the…
Dangerous Charter (1962)
Three fishermen discover an abandoned yacht in the middle of the ocean; they board it and discover a dead body. The authorities let them keep the boat guessing that the real owner to be a mysterious criminal who they suspect…
Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
First, though, you need to know what I mean by “magnificent.” I LOVE movies that appear “dark” and “low budget” because it gives them a eerie dimension not seen in 21st century attempts at horror. Growing up during the early…
Summer Heat (1982)
One of unsung B-picture director Jack (“A Small Town in Texas”) Starrett’s most appealing and hence underrated features, this disarmingly sweet, big-hearted, beautifully well-observed and surprisingly moving seriocomic slice of blue collar life centers on one Dolin Pike (the always…
The Sender (1982)
An suicidal amnesiac(Zeljko Ivanek), with enormous telepathic power, is brought into a psychiatric hospital to determine what his identity is. The doctor over his care, Dr Gail Farmer(Kathryn Harrold) begins seeing her patient’s own nightmares, seeking to understand why he’s…
Saturday the 14th (1981)
Oh god, another horror spoof?! Yes, but you gotta love this one. I get the feeling that they made “Saturday the 14th” for fun, and cast Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss to give the flick a less than totally silly…
Frenzy (1945)
A sculptor’s wife goes missing and the weird occurrences in and around the studio end up requiring a medium to be brought in to reveal what had happened. Lets not beat around the bush the end of this movie is…
Bomber (1982)
Bud Spencer as Italian seaman and previous heavyweight boxer turned into coach and manager against experimented American boxers . This time Bud Spencer as Bud Graziano , a hustler and ex-boxer who left the boxing and helps Jerry (Cala) to…
Blood in the Streets (1973)
I’m a big fan of Italian crime flicks, but it has to be said that a lot of them are rather similar. That’s not the case with Revolver however! Some of these films go off on a bit of a…
Child Bride (1938)
This film deals with the subject of underage women (rather pre-teenage girls) forced into marriages with older men in the Appalachian mountains and the school teacher who is desperate to get a law passed to outlaw this procedure. She enlists…
Truckin’ Buddy McCoy (1982)
In a nutshell, Buddy is a child in a man’s body, drifting aimlessly from job to job. Then two things happen. First, he gets fired. Secondly, he wins a Mack truck in some kind of sweepstakes. This truck is boss,…
The Eighties: The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
The 80’s ….just the mention of this decade will bring a smile to the face of the most jaundice entertainment professional. A time when the film industry was in full blush, the multiplex worked and many great of downtown theatres…