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Foundational Cinema

Month: August 2017

Galaxina (1980)

t begins with a rip-off of the Star Wars crawl, which they obviously thought needed to be three long paragraphs in order to be a true parody, because it goes on forever without having much to say. What it does…

Saturn 3 (1980)

In the future, Earth is overcrowded and the population relies on distant bases to be fed. In the Saturn 3 station, Major Adam (Kirk Douglas) and the scientist Alex (Farrah Fawcett), who is also his lover and has never been…

Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)

From the perspective of yet another guy who’s trying to see all the ‘official’ video nasties – namely me – Mardi Gras Massacre passed the litmus test. It offers another dose of the very particular atmosphere unique to a lot…

The Monolith Monsters (1957)

“Monolith Monsters” was unique in that it took a different approach to 1950’s sci-fi. There were no alien monsters. Atomic radiation didn’t spawn them. You couldn’t just blast them with guns. There weren’t any miracle chemicals or devices needed, just…

The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

This is simply a superb science-fiction drama of a couple’s prosperous 1950s world turned upside down. Vacationing on a boat, while the wife Louise (Randy Stuart) is below deck, husband Scott Carey (Grant Williams) above becomes exposed to a radioactive…

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974)

On the video nasties list as simply The Living Dead (it has several other titles), I watched a version called Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, it is pretty difficult to see why this was on the list to begin with. Yes…

Jessica Sonneborn Spotlight

“Jessica is a true gem in the acting world!” Director Vito Trabucco Actress, Director, Producer, and Writer Jessica Sonneborn thrives on acting in roles where she is a complicated character with a wide range that transforms throughout the story. Her…

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Schizo (1976)

On one hand, Pete Walker’s psychological horror Schizo is a pretty fun time-waster, boasting decent performances, some delightfully gruesome killings (best of all being a knitting needle in the head—implausible but cool), and a touch of nudity courtesy of its…

Attack of the Jungle Women (1959)

I really don’t know what these people were thinking when they made this movie. As a bad movie fan, my favorite kind of bad movie is the obscure, little-known b-movie that probably only got released onto video through some misdirected…