Blow Out (1981)
DePalma’s best film by a mile and also as dark as night. It has his moral core but it is unrelenting. Sally set up a politician to be killed; Jack saved her but like his master Hitch she is doomed….
Sisters (1972)
SISTERS isn’t Brian De Palma’s first film, but it might as well be called that because this is the first film where we got acquainted with his real tastes and his all-time admiration to the works of Alfred Hitchcock. It…
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Watching early films by classic directors in the midst of discovering their trademark style always proves to be an interesting endeavor, and Martin Scorsese’s Boxcar Bertha is no exception. Made the year before Scorsese’s breakthrough hit, and first tale of…
Curse of the Fly (1965)
One of the best horror movies of the 50s is without a doubt the 1958 version of “The Fly”, the story of a scientist who gets fused with a common fly when a experiment goes awfully wrong. Directed by Kurt…
Goliath King of The Slaves (1963)
The tyrant Balthazar (habitual nasty Spaghetti Western , Folco Lulli), usurper of Babylone , rules the city with violence and atrocities . He organizes continuous sacrifices of maids along with the priestess (Moira Orfei , Peplum usual , along with…
The Dragon Flies (1975)
The Man From Hong Kong (1975) was one of the few attempts that film makers and producers have made in trying to market Wang Yu as an international star in the same vein as Bruce Lee. Even some film markets…
A New Slate: Life After The VPF’s
When I am not sitting at my kitchen table, pounding away at my keyboard writing about movies, I am either trying to build some kind of drive-in environment or once and awhile like I did earlier this month wade into…
Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound (1990)
Toiling in the not-too-distant future, Joe Buchanan (John Hurt), a not-quite mad scientist, has invented a machine that vaporises the enemy while leaving the environment untouched, something that will protect the good ol’ U.S of A from evil. The only…
Danger: Diabolik (1968)
In casting John Phillip Law as the arch criminal Diabolik, motion picture casting approached status as an art form. Spending much of his on-screen time wearing the character’s mask, which only leaves his eyes exposed, Law radiates cynical power with…
The Losers (1970)
Rough and tumble hog-riding Hell’s Angels hellions Link (the almighty William Smith), Duke (the equally awesome Adam Roarke), Dirty Denny (former real-life Green Beret Houston Savage), Speed (Gene Cournelius) and Limpy (a fine Paul Koslo) are recruited by the CIA…
7 Doors Of Death (1981)
L’Aldila/The Beyond(1981) is the film that brought interest in the cinema of Lucio Fulci. I became a big fan of his work after watching this movie. Have seen a good portion of his films since. The opening prologue is shot…
Shock ‘Em Dead (1991)
Rehearsing with a band, Angel Martin, (Stephen Quadros) is quickly booted out by the other members, Greg Austin, (Tim Moffett) Izzy, (David Homb) Dustin Clean, (Christopher Maleki) and Jonny Kraft, (Markus Grupa) when he turns them off with his playing…
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…
Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
This movie hasn’t seen the light of day for many, many years but is now available on DVD. It is also dubbed into English, from its original Italian dialogue, although it has to be said that the print isn’t exactly…
Delusion (1981)
A young nurse named Meredith accepts a job looking after an ageing millionaire in his secluded country home. Almost as soon as she arrives strange events begin occuring. It then becomes apparent that someone is murdering all the occupants of…
Scalps (1983)
Digging the pile of low budget horror, I happened to find this piece of pure gold that shines even today. I knew Fred Olen Ray for an actor but with this one, Ray totally grabbed me in. I now salute…
Prom Night II (1987)
What have The Fly, Invaders from Mars, The Thing from Another World, and The Blob all have in common? They are science fiction films from the 1950s that were remade in the 1980s. The 1980s saw a new enthusiasm for…
WITCHULA adds Dee Wallace and Tyler Mane
Written By: Keith Makenas Witchula Adds Two More Horror Icons to its Star-Studded Cast Dee Wallace and Tyler Mane join what Writer producer director Marcus Bradford promises to be a cast for the ages LOS ANGELES – Nov. 21, 2016…
BLOOD BROTHERS – Review
Written By: Keith Makenas Two brothers, Charles and Thomas, who feel they are of superior intelligence, concoct a deadly game of murder to fulfill their devious fantasies, but doing so derails their relationship with horrifying results. When Jose Prendes wrote…
World Gone Wild (1987)
It’s 2087, 75 years after the start of the final war. It lasted 15 years and left the world devastated. It hasn’t rained for 50 years. Lost Wells is a settlement in the desert that actually has water. The peaceful…