Superstition (1982)
This is pretty standard haunted house fare. I’ve seen worse, I’ve seen better. What makes it stand slightly higher than normal hauntings are a few good gore scenes, including a guy being ripped in half by a window, so that…
Bury Me an Angel (1972)
You can complain all you want about low budget production values, but BURY ME AN ANGEL is a lot better than most biker pictures of the age, telling a “revenge-on-the-go” story that satisfies. Best of all, it defines both revenge…
5-25-77: The Day Things Changed
There are moments in life that I think you can reflect back on and understand that they help shape and define the person you are. I think movies are like that as well. Movies I think can capture the tone…
The Cycle Savages (1969)
Romico doing sketches of scenery around town gets the attention of a gang of bikers who feel that their privacy had been invaded. The bikers then take it upon themselves to break the artists hands for doing it. You wonder…
Macho Man (1985)
This is “Macho Man”, a West German film from 1985, so it had its 30th anniversary last year. The writer and director is Alexander Titus Benda and this is certainly his most known work, which is no surprise though as…
The Cosmic Man (1959)
“The Cosmic Man” is worth watching and has a definite message. This low-budget b-movie takes liberally from “The Day the Earth Stood Still”, but it has a more specific conflict in it that is its entire focus. An alien spacecraft…
Last Platoon (1988)
It’s THE DIRTY DOZEN meets KELLY’S HEROES in the jungle with a splash of BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI for good measure, all with substantially reduced budget necessitating the editing in of as much action footage from THE LAST HUNTER…
Land of Doom (1986)
A low budget but good-looking US/Turkish MAD MAX 2 rip-off in which the hero this time is a woman who has a pathological hatred of all men – that is until she meets the charming and courageous male lead Anderson,…
The Changeling (1980)
Horror films have become caricature’s over the years. They contain characters, situations, and elements you’ve seen before. The exceptions have been THE SIXTH SENSE and SCREAM. THE SIXTH SENSE cleverly turned the ghost genre on it’s head and SCREAM mocked…
Blastfighter (1984)
Having watched “Blastfighter”, I can now proudly say for myself that I’ve seen the entire repertoire of lead actor Michael Sopkiw. Not that this is such an exhausting or praiseworthy accomplishment, as this peculiar macho star only ever appeared in…
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
This 60’s horror comedy is very much in the mould of the pioneering gore flicks made by Herschell Gordon Lewis. It shares the specific combination of schlocky, excessive bloodletting with wacky humour. It’s this strange and often totally inappropriate combination…
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
The Beast With Five Fingers predates any other ‘disembodied’ hand film I’ve seen by a good twenty years. Such films include Dr. Terror’s House Of Horror, The Hand, Evil Dead II, Severed Ties, and the two Addam’s Family films and…
The Thing That Couldn’t Die (1958)
As “disembodied head movies” go, this one’s right at the top. The movie is workmanlike, the cast doesn’t have famous actors although they are recognizable, and production values are decent. The silly story—a very old head searching for its body—is…
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Marshall Thompson, along with Kenneth Tobey and Richard Carson are my favorite 50’s sci-fi leads that was one of the big pluses of this movie. On the other hand it seemed rushed and too short. The love interest, which I…
The 27th Day (1957)
It’s premise immediately called to mind the plot for the the best film of it’s kind in the genre, “The Day The Earth Stood Still”. However, instead of offering the citizens of Earth an ultimatum as in the latter picture,…
Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
Using his instincts, reporter Morgan Randall, (Robert Deveau) figures out a story lead near an old farmhouse, only to narrowly escape a zombie attack instead. Receiving help from Shelly Goodwin, (Donna Asali) and she helps him get back to town….
Giant from the Unknown (1958)
Ah! The 1950’s and science fiction films. This was the decade that brought us giant ants and other mutant insects, evil aliens coming to take over our bodies, good aliens out to save mankind from destroying itself, Godzilla and all…
Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)
Flight of the Lost Balloon is one of the more interesting failures in the 50s/60s Jules Verne cycle. Rarely seen today, the movie has a game cast, a director with excellent genre credentials, and some outstanding widescreen photography to display….
Girl in Gold Boots (1968)
\ Before there was “Showgirls” there was “Girl in Gold Boots”. This film is even worse and worse made. You know, I really think the director took himself seriously when he made this movie. Sad, is it not? But I…
She Demons (1958)
Story is about four people getting shipwrecked on an uncharted island and at first they believe it’s unoccupied but when one of them is discovered murdered with spears they quickly change their mind. The Captain is Fred Maklin (Tod Griffin)…