Six-String Samurai (1998)
…if you like rock-a-billie and love a campy adventure in a post-apocalyptic world were Elvis, the KING, has just died and there’s a guitar-strumming race across the desert to Las Vegas to see who will be the next King crowned…
Enter the Deadly Dragon (1978)
Hardly anyone seems to have seen this kung fu cheapie which is no surprise given how obscure it feels from beginning to end. It’s a period-set adventure in which, somewhat unusually, Ching patriots are posited as the villains while the…
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
OK. Nobody in their right mind could have expected much from this movie. But even though I knew Jesse Ventura was the headliner and that the budget was low, I didn’t expect this film to be as bad as it…
Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985)
As one who pretends to have benefitted from a post-graduate education, I am almost ashamed of my love for this, the best/worst of the Ninja flicks. And while Ninja films are no longer in vogue among the “militia in training…
The Haunting of Morella (1990)
Morella (Nicole Eggert) is killed in the opening minutes for murder and witchcraft as her husband Gideon (David McCallum) looks on with their infant child. 17 years later, the child Lenora (Eggert again) is all grown up and soon to…
The Case of the Red Monkey (1955)
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist…
The House on Skull Mountain (1974)
Called away to a remote house, a woman and her ancestors gathered together for a will reading find that a powerful voodoo spell has been enacted which begins to kill them off and forces the remaining family members to put…
Voyage to the End of the Universe (1963)
IKARIE XB-1 is one of the most compelling science fiction films ever made. Filmed in very Cold War era Czecheslovokia and rarely seen in North America in it’s complete widescreen form, this is a movie that was so ahead of…
Little Dead Rotting Hood (2016)
Lady in the woods passes the crown to her granddaughter to become some kind of Zombie-Vampire-Werewolve-Buffy-Chick, so she can protect the small town from a supernatural evil, the Denmother. Why she had to be dead for that, who knows… It…
Mission Stardust (1967)
A mission to the moon discovers a couple of aliens who are stranded there in a large spacecraft. It turns out one of them has leukaemia, so the astronauts agree to return with them to earth to seek out a…
Thunderbirds Are GO (1966)
This is the first of two feature film versions of the `Thunderbirds’ TV show. If you’re on the wavelength of this type of entertainment (i.e., willing to ignore the fact that the characters are puppets, and to simply accept them…
The Spider (1958)
When EARTH VS. THE SPIDER crawled onto theatre screens nationwide in 1958 and first appeared on television in 1963 it was under the title THE SPIDER. Thus its current label is somewhat of an enigma. Perhaps the additional prefix of…
Ms .45 (1981)
The 1970s were THE decade for American exploitation movies with the likes of Roger Corman, Jack Hill, and Larry Cohen Jr creating some of the most entertaining trash ever made. For the most part the 1980s were a big let…
Lifeforce (1985)
Rather than dismiss ‘Lifeforce’ out-of-hand as a sort of schlock and primitive exploitation feature, it’s important to recognize that the film draws upon the ‘esteemed’ traditions of British horror and science-fiction – specifically Hammer and American International features like Quatermass…
The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
Trish (Michelle Michaels) is a popular basketball player whose parents have gone away for the weekend. Just so happens that the night before, convicted killer and mental patient Russ Thorn (wonderfully played by Michael Villella) has escaped from confinement. Awww…timing…
Ninja III: The Domination (1984)
Lucinda Dickey is a telephone repair woman with a portable tape player. She is possessed by a dying Ninja after a golf-course confrontation between said Ninja and various businessy types, and as a consequence Lucinda goes all ‘oriental’ (i.e. slant-eyed…
The Tingler (1959)
The Tingler marks the second teaming for horror’s greatest actor – Vincent Price, and horror’s greatest showman – William Castle. This film was released later in the same year that their first venture – House on Haunted Hill – was…
Deathstalker (1983)
The opening-scene, maybe? We see a bunch of mongoloid-barbarians with bad make-up jump off the walls of some ruins. They sneak around and attack some dude with a scantily clothed captive girl. The dude runs off, the mongoloids follow him…
The Mutations (1974)
This is a totally bizarre British horror film which deserves cult status of the highest order – I can’t believe that this didn’t have problems with the censor, it is a disturbing, nasty piece of work and should undoubtedly have…
World Without End (1956)
This is the perhaps the best script from a writer’s point of view of any of the 1950s low-budget “B” sci-fi films. Galactic fiction being beyond the capacities of Hollywood writers’ imaginations, the best they could do is “futuristics”, stories…