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Foundational Cinema

Month: January 2017

The Legacy (1978)

The film opens in Los Angeles. Margaret Walsh (Katherine Ross) is talking on the phone, making sure a cheque for $50,000 from a British company called ‘Wigans and Trumble development’ has cleared. She discusses it with her boyfriend Pete Danner…

Capturing The Wild Millennial

When I was a young movie-goers, many, many years ago I used to spent an inordinate amount of time in movie theatres. The movies I went to see were being viewed by hordes of young men 18-24 who at one…

Invisible Invaders (1959)

Eddie Cahn’s “Invisible Invaders” is a fun film despite its extremely low budget, especially for fans of the genre, thanks to an interesting premise and memorable performances from genre stars John Carradine and John Agar. Despite a few comments here,…

Critters (1986)

In 1986 “Critters” catered to the crowed that loved ’84’s “Gremlins”, and ’85’s “Ghoulies”, and the crowed that found Gremlins a little tame for there gory tastes. Though “Critters isn’t an all out ‘horror’ film, it carries the fine line…

War Fever (1969)

This is a below mediocre war film that doesn’t have much to say. It was made by Cine Azimut, which isn’t famous for other hits as “Cost of Dying”, “Death Laid an Egg” (real title), this one, and two others….

Prison (1987)

What we have here is a compelling piece of low budget horror with a relatively original premise, a cast that is filled with familiar faces AND one of the most convincing filming locations in the history of horror films. So…could…

The Beastmaster (1982)

As far as the Sword and Sorcery genre goes, this is it’s shining star. A lot of people comment in negative ways(bad acting, poor costumes, etc.)but the’re missing the point of this film style. Let me summarize: A man’s village…

Armed Response (1986)

“Armed Response” qualifies as one of B-movie director Fred Olen Ray’s better crime thrillers. David Carradine plays Jim Roth, a Los Angeles barkeeper in his own bar who suffers from Vietnam War flashbacks. Interestingly, the Vietnam sequences in his memories…

Aenigma (1987)

At a school for wayward girls that would give any British/Australian TV presenter/entertainer from the seventies a stroke, a prank has gone way, way wrong. Cathy, the weirdo daughter of the weirdo cleaner, has been set up on a date…

Dark Star (1974)

Lieutenant Doolittle is in charge of ‘Dark Star’, a ship on a lonely mission to destroy unstable planets in systems targeted for colonisation. The ship has been on it’s mission for twenty years, but the crew have only aged three…

She Devil (1957)

I was COMPLETELY mesmerized by this film because I loved the concept of this woman who was in essence given everything a human being would need to survive and still gave into her baser instincts and became even more of…

Day of the Dead (1985)

The third film in George A. Romero’s immensely popular “Living Dead” trilogy is by far the bleakest and most complex film the director has ever worked on. “Day of the Dead” received a lot of negative press upon its release…

Night of the Demons (2009)

The majority of the recent Horror remakes have been done with the backing of major studios. They’re no fools and know that this is a big money maker and it looks like it will be for some time. The upside…

The White Buffalo (1977)

WHITE BUFFALO was released in the late 1970s, in between KING KONG and ORCA, which were all produced by Dino de Laurentiis. WHITE BUFFALO was seen then as part of this unofficial “Big Animal on the Rampage” trilogy de Laurentiis…

Death Weekend (1976)

This is a lesser-known entry into the backwoods brutality genre of films started by the classic DELIVERANCE. Derivative exploitation, but pretty good nonetheless. Please note that a majority of the reviews listed for this film (also known as THE HOUSE…

Outlaw Riders (1971)

Ducking the law and trippin’ town to town, the Outlaw Riders take on any girl and any gang that stand in their way in their quest for the freedom of the open road, and their lust for a good time….

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)

Just a little south of the Texas border, the cattle ranchers are having trouble with an unusual rustler — a Tyrannosaurus Rex. This is one of the few non-Harryhausen stop-motion films produced during the 1950s. The original concept was bought…

House 3 (1989)

Detective Lucas McCarthy (Lance Henriksen) finally apprehends “Meat Cleaver Max” (Brion James) and watches the electric chair execution from the audience. But killing Max Jenke only elevated him to another level of reality. Now Lucas’ family is under attack, his…

SWAMP APE Now Available

A group of college researchers go camping deep into the Florida Everglades .While entering forbidden Native American territory against being advised not to  they encounter the Swamp Ape.   Actor Geoff Ward has starred in feature films, a few TV…

Divorce:Hollywood Style

Sometimes it is painfully apparent that a relationship has gone woefully awry and the only resolution is a parting of the ways. This parting while initially painful can lead to vast personal growth and a re-acquaintance with oneself. Every once…