Funeral Home (1980)
An effectively spooky low-budget thriller that takes more inspiration from Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) rather than Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), as so many horror films from this era did. A girl goes to help her grandmother with her new boarding house, a…
Cyxork 7 (2006)
When I first saw this movie , I didn’t know what to expect. I knew it would be unique when I saw the hilarious, scathing news channel parody. From then on, it made me laugh with unexpected surprises and subversive…
Dragstrip Girl (1957)
Louise (Fay Spain), Fred (John Ashley) and Jim (Steve Terrel) meet at a set of lights and instantly have a drag race – a policeman follows them to Mama’s Cafe Grill, which is the local hangout for kids. Typical of…
Funny Money
One July night, an auditor show up at my drive-in on the behalf of Sony Pictures. This women tells me that basically this is just standard operating procedure for the studios and I should not even worry. I of course…
Spaceways (1953)
On a top secret base in the English countryside the British space programme is in full swing and it’s not just the space programme that is swinging because Mrs Vanessa Mitchell is having an affair with Dr Phillip Crenshaw ….
Death Rides a Horse (1966)
When Bill (John Phillip Law) was a young child he witnesses a gang kill his father, and rape and kill his mother and sister, while he was spared. Now Bill is a young man who is now intent on exacting…
Johnny Yuma (1966)
This is a very decent, if somewhat obscure, spaghetti Western. It lacks a famous-name director like Sergio Leone or American male stars like Clint Eastwood or Henry Fonda, or even Cameron Mitchell (the lead is the journeyman European actor Mark…
The Space Children (1958)
Despite its very low ratings from the movie critics the movie “The Space Children” is one of the most thought-provoking motion pictures to come out of Hollywood in the 1950’s in its addressing the dangers of nuclear proliferation and the…
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960)
I have always been fascinated by the philosophical aspects of space and time, for example, such as the possibility of time dilation. That is why movies such as “The Time Machine”, “World Without End” (especially, “World Without End” being one…
The Road to Ruin (1934)
This is one of many so-called “educational films” of the 1930s that were really sad excuses for sleazy low-budget producers to make films that could slip nudity and banned material past the censor boards. Starting in late 1933 and early…