Race with the Devil (1975)
Wow, what a great little flick. Race With the Devil is a seventies road movie/satanic horror film about a group of holidaymakers who get more than they bargained for when they witness the brutal murder of a young girl…
Corman’s World (2011)
If you are my age or perhaps a bit older, than there’s an excellent chance you’ve seen several of Roger Corman’s films. If you are a young whippersnapper, then perhaps you haven’t. Regardless, he is an important man who…
Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)
This 1965 Toho classic brings the reanimated corpse to the world of giant monsters and elaborate miniatures, an oddball idea. Believe it or not, Frankenstein was originally suppose to fight the likes of Godzilla at the time, but the concept…
Rockabilly Baby (1957)
The mysterious Mrs. Eleanor Carter moves to Springfield with her two teen-age children Jimmy and Cathy. Eleanor makes friends with the town’s social leader, Mrs. Wellington, who supports her idea for a town youth center, and she is aided by…
Radar Men from the Moon (1952)
In 1949, in one of their last bursts of inspiration, the thrill engineers at Republic produced ‘King of the Rocket Men,’ which capitalized on the popularity of the flying hero Superman, from the eponymous 1948 Columbia film serial. Although Rocket…
Tobe Hooper
Before becoming a filmmaker, Tobe Hooper, a native of Austin, Texas, spent the 1960s as a college professor and documentary cameraman. In 1974, he organized a small cast that was made up of college teachers and students, and then he…
The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984)
A simple rain shower signals the cast to strip naked. An S&M tribute to ‘Ben-Hur’s chariot race with human horses. And Chinese bar fights with midgets being impaled. If loving this is wrong I don’t want to be right. “‘Barbarella’…
Full Moon Entertainment
After the collapse of Band’s previous film studio, Empire Pictures, he moved back to the United States from Rome and opened Full Moon Productions. Band’s goal with Full Moon was to create low-budget horror, sci-fi, and fantasy films, while retaining…
Pieces (1982)
Thank you, Juan Piquer Simon! First I’m delighted by your wondrous “E.T.” rip off “Pod People”, then your amazing killer slug movie, the aptly titled “Slugs”. But now I’ve seen the one that tops those classics and then some: your…
Chillerama (2011)
Chillerama is one great big homage to the drive-in films that were once one of the biggest ways to view a film. Now, we have midnight showings and regular movie theaters. Though the number of American drive-in theaters have…
Master Of The Movies: Robert Lippert Exhbitor
As of late I have been publishing articles on the state of the motion picture industry and some gentle perspective to give it a way out of the malaise it finds itself in. I have offered examples in other countries…
Planet Terror (2007)
While Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof seems to be a much more authentic representation of 1970s grindhouse pictures, Robert Rodriguez’ Planet Terror is more of a loving caricature of 1980s zombie splatter films. Nothing in the film is played straight, and…
Cry Baby Killer (1958)
Recently, this viewer happened to watch, for the first time, the 1950 film “The Men,” historically important today as the screen debut of 26-year-old Marlon Brando. And by some strange coincidence, my next film, also seen for the first time,…
End of the World (1977)
After witnessing a man’s death in a bizarre accident, a coffee machine explodes sending him through a window and into a neon sign where is electrocuted , Father Pergado (Christopher Lee) encounters his alien double bent on world conquest and…
The Funhouse (1981)
The production of this film included the use of a real vintage carnival from the 40s/50s. For anyone interested in the appeal of a traveling carnival, this film has some great sets. “The Funhouse” also features some great Rick Baker/Craig…
The Spotlight Shines on Daemon Hillin
“I love movies!!! There is nothing better than sitting back and escaping to another reality,” says Producer Daemon Hillin. “The most rewarding thing for me is to wake up every day and do what I love doing. There is no…
Crocodile (2000)
Eight College Students (Mark McLachlan, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari, D.W. Reiser, Julie Mintz, Sommer Knight, Rhett Jordan and Greg Wayne) are taking a break from College for a vacation that means Party for these eight students. They rent a boat…
Scanners (1981)
After a renegade scanner named Revok (a mutant human with advanced mental powers) causes another man’s head to explode, he is hunted by a second scanner hired by a semi-secret scientific organization. Meanwhile, other scanners are picked off one by…
Caveman (1981)
Like airline disaster movies, one staple of 1970’s cinema that was ripe for spoofing was the sub-genre of pre-historic melodrama influenced by “Korg: 1,000,000 B.C.”(1966). Enter, “Caveman,” a movie as willing to stick it to this genre as “Airplane!”(1980)…
American Ninja (1985)
Ask a thousand people what the greatest unintentional comedy of all time is, and they will almost invariably tell you Battlefield Earth or Plan 9 From Outer Space. They’re wrong. American Ninja has those two turkeys beat down for a…