Hollywood Boulevard (1976)
In the autumn of 1975, Roger Corman set out to make the fastest, cheapest drive-in movie in the history of New World Pictures. This wild, uproarious cult classic is the result. Candice Rialson is Candy Hope, a starry-eyed Midwestern beauty…
School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)
This is a rather odd movie, appearing after the JD/reform school movies of the late 50’s and early 60’s, but before the sleazy WIP films of the 1970’s. It’s also British, so all bets are off. The British are famous…
Donovan’s Brain (1953)
Veteran actor Lew Ayres, best known to many old movie buffs as ‘Dr Kildare’, plays Cory, a scientist experimenting with monkey’s brains, seeing if it is possible for them to exist outside the body. He is assisted in his innovative…
Little Revolutions
I want you to get up right now. Sit up. Go to your windows. Open them and stick your head out and yell – ‘I’m as mad as hell and I’m not gonna take this anymore!’ Things have got to…
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)
Science fiction has long held an honorable place in the entertainment industry. Gulliver’s Travels was written as a satire on Society in Swift’s period, but its theme is essentially science fiction. The books of Jules Verne are noteworthy for featuring…
Savage! (1973)
The story of a CIA(or some kind of military special forces adviser) played by James Iglehart as Savage set in some south east Asian country(read:Vietnam) who first helps the dictatorship and then realizes his mistake and turns on his former…
Venus in Furs (1969)
In Istanbul, the trumpet player Jimmy Logan (James Darren) is dazed and confused on the beach and finds his musical instrument buried in the sand. Then he sees a woman in the sea and he pulls her body from the…
Death Rides a Horse (1967)
Death Rides a Horse is one that Spaghetti Western fans (and fans of Lee Van Cleef) would thoroughly enjoy. The FILM is most watchable (read below about the DVD and possible hopes for a Region 1 letterbox DVD release), and…
$1,000 on the Black (1966)
Johnny Liston has just finished his twelve-year term in prison and returns back to his hometown to find out his brother Sartana rules the nest and has married his woman. Knowing that his brother framed him, Johnny with the help…
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Some would claim that this is the last of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns – a genre he created. It started with the three Clint Eastwood ones – Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad…
Castle of Blood (1964)
The premise is hardly an original one and the pace is quite slow at times, but my attention was held throughout the film’s entire duration. The opening sequence in a tavern reminded me of a similar scene in Jean Epstein’s…
Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
Not a bad variation of THE MYSTERIANS crossed with BRAVE NEW WORLD with little WESTWORLD tossed in. I have to say the sets were pretty darn impressive in design for such a low low budget. How many indies have we…
Bandolero! (1968)
Mace Bishop is slumming his way across Texas when he hears that his brother has been caught robbing a bank and is due to be hung, along with his whole gang. Posing as a hangman, Mace manages to convince the…
Ursus (1961)
Ursus, Maciste, Goliath, Samson, Hercules, Atlas, wow, those Italian muscle man producers must have had a hard time figuring out what to call the musclebound actors who played all these legendary muscleman heroes…..In the “Mighty Ursus” Ed Fury, formerly Ed…
House of Dark Shadows (1970)
For anyone who enjoys Gothic melodramas, this one is for you. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, producer Dan Curtis was on a roll with his hit afternoon television series Dark Shadows. When the powers that be decided to…
The Executioner (1974)
EXECUTIONER (1974) is a contemporary crime thriller about a secret band of fighters recruited by a disgraced narcotics detective seeking to stop the flow of drugs into Japan. While diehard fans of the film’s star, Sonny Chiba, are partial to…
Blood and Lace (1971)
“Blood and Lace” (not to be confused with Bava’s unrelated “Blood and Black Lace,” though most likely a ripoff of that title) follows teenaged orphan Ellie Masters, whose prostitute mother has been clobbered to death with a hammer alongside a…
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
This is an under rated Sci-Fi gem. Absolutely powerful story line leaving no room for cob webs in your mind. Dr. Charles Forbin(Eric Braeden)puts his life’s work into creating a super intelligent computer that links up with a similar machine…
48 Hours to Live (1959)
“48 Hours to Live” refers to the time limit imposed on a kidnapped nuclear scientist by a ring of spies before his daughter is harmed or killed. This movie sees British actor Anthony Steel taking a leading role as a…
The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973)
The legendary Mr. Lee’s last outing for dear old Hammer Studios in his red contact lenses and silk-lined cape. And what a sorry end to what was once one of the real jewels of British cinema, the Hammer horror franchise….