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Month: December 2015

Eyes Without a Face (1960)

Georges Franju’s atmospheric masterpiece is a tapestry of contradictions. Eyes Without a Face is a compelling tale of sadism that has an astute tenderness at the same time. A film that will disgust you with it’s macabre imagery, yet simultaneously…

Up! (1976)

The film begins quite mysteriously in a dungeon where a young man is torturing an Adolf Hitler look-alike… We then quickly cut to a stunning gal, played by Kitten Natividad, who teasingly introduces the audience to the setting… We are…

Cannibal Girls (1973)

There is an explanation to the disjointed and jumbled storyline. From what I read, the movie was originally made in 1971 as a cheap quickie by producers Reitman and Goldberg, largely depending on improvisation. On seeing the completed footage, they…

Witchula – Press Release

Marcus Bradford has had his hands in numerous films over the years whether acting, producing, editing, and every job in between. A few of them were films by James Cullen Bressack, Maria Olsen, and Edward Payson, amongst many others.  Bradford…

Gator Bait (1974)

You know in reality this movie is *NOT* as patently offensive or disturbing as the naysayers may have you believe. It is tasteless, lunk-headed, vacuous and exploitational as they come, but THAT IS THE POINT OF THE FILM. To expect…

Night of the Blood Beast (1958)

Crashing back down to earth the first man in space Maj. John Corcoran,Michael Emmet, goes into a deep state of suspended animation where he’s at first mistakenly declared dead by his colleague back at the army base Dr. Alex Wyman,…

Man Bait (1952)

In 1950, before Hammer made a name for itself with a memorable horror output, it set up a deal with American producer Robert L. Lippert to make a dozen or so low budget crime dramas, all of which were to…

Tobor the Great (1954)

Watch this one with child-like eyes and you’ll have a great time. Tobor (‘robot’ spelled backwards) is the invention of an elderly scientific genius who develops a robot to serve as the pilot for dangerous space flights in place of…

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

With the recent box-office success achieved by the latest remake of 1974’s `The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,’ it’s worth looking back at Tobe Hooper’s original horror classic. The movie tells a fairly simple tale at heart. A group of five teenagers…

Earth vs the Spider (1958)

There is a saying that a true artist can make an error into a masterpiece. While this doesn’t exactly apply to film-making, it can easily apply to film-viewing. Think of lots of 1950’s low budget sci-fi cliches (bad acting, bad…

The Food of the Gods (1976)

A rare food taken by an old woman(Ida Lupino) provokes the excessive increasing on animals and bugs. Thee killer beasts , gigantic flies, huge chicken, wasps, worms and enormous rats strike tourists on a secluded island. A football team players(Marjoe…

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)

The world’s most famous amateur detective tracks THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, a notorious demonic fiend intent on destroying the last descendent of an ancient family. 20th Century Fox brought Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic tale to vivid life in…

Moon Zero Two (1969)

1969 was a year for classic westerns, with such titles as True Grit, Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, and The Wild Bunch. It was also the year of the first space western. Moon Zero Two is a bizarre offering…

District B13 (2004)

Thrilling and violent movie with a phenomenal starring pair and in which Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle cast all the Stuntmen themselves . Set in the rundown ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate…

The She-Creature (1956)

If you take a look at the credits of Chester Morris’s career, you’ll note he did a lot of television in the Fifties and Sixties after his Boston Blackie series came to an end. Morris was one of those players…

The Vault Of Horror (1973)

Fairly good entry in the Amicus anthology cycle, even if none of the stories are particularly remarkable (or original). The premise is also quite simple: five men meet inside an elevator which takes them, irrespective of the floor to which…

The Cyclops (1957)

Bert I. Gordon, when you hear that name many people smile but some tremble. Many of us remember his back projected monsters (THE BEGINNING OF THE END), transparent giants (THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN) and his malevolent ghosts (TORMENTED). Okay so…

Hell’s Belles (1969)

Hells Belles started off pretty adequately, and as it went along it turned out to be one of the better biker pictures I’ve seen from AIP. It probably wont be remembered much years from now, and one reviewer who said…

The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957)

All of the men of a Viking tribe have disappeared across the great waters, so their lovesick ladies decide to build a boat and go find ’em. They run into a whirlpool and a giant sea monster before sailing their…

Fangs (1974)

“Snakes” is a peculiar and – in fact – very wrong 70’s animal exploitation, but it’s undeniably great entertainment. The film introduces Snakey Bender (Les Tremayne), a snake shepherd who traditionally visits every Wednesday a little town that is ……