Being Big By Thinking Small
I do not believe that big is better. In fact I would say in the movie business whether its production of exhibition small is much better. I see the erosion of the big mega mall, dwindling of Hollywood output in…
Valley of the Zombies (1946)
Well crafted little horror jaunt. Seems long dead Murks (Keith) won’t stay dead, but he does need blood to keep frightening us viewers. I guess he must have had a zombie dad and a vampire mom, or some such. Anyhow…
The Human Vapor (1960)
Ishiro Honda is best known for his Kaiju films, which is rather a shame because he made many other fine and creative movies. This scifi/horror mix a good example of one of his more intimate, darker and multilayered creations and…
The Haunting (1999)
The Haunting, if you have seen the original, you know a great ghost story, it’s perfection on film. It’s a haunting tale of 4 people who go into a haunted house and with the simple trick of sound and movements,…
Kill Baby, Kill (1966)
Here we have an isolated Transylvanian village haunted by the spirit of a dead little girl intent on collecting the souls of the inhabitants. The plot finds a young doctor summoned to the town to perform an autopsy in the…
Jessica Cameron Spotlight
“Jessica Cameron is one of those talented actresses that not only brings her A game to the set but her talent is beyond just acting” Stephen Biro Writer & Director AMERICAN GUINEA PIG: THE SONG OF SOLOMON Growing up in…
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
“The Magnetic Monster” was a superior sci-fi B movie of the 1950’s. Rarely seen these days, it hasn’t gotten the appreciation it deserves as an unusual sci-fi classic. Two scientist-detectives from the Government “Office of Scientific Investigation (O.S.I.)” are sent…
The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
John Gilling directs with style and flair in one of his minor masterpieces The Plague of the Zombies. Hammer only made one foray into the zombie sub-genre with this film about a doctor and his daughter paying a visit to…
Once There Were Showmen
I live in a small city in Indiana. When I am in town and not flying about, I try to land at a local coffee shop to catch up on local gossip and the happenings of the day, Next to…
THIS F’ING TOWN
THIS FUCKING TOWN The title says it all! This web series follows actors trying to make it in the film industry. With the abundance of films and shows over the years about making it in Hollywood, THIS FUCKING TOWN has…
The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
Scott Marlowe is Benny, the new boy in school, and he’s all attitude, which ticks off the local gang of toughs, led by Stu and Jackie (Dickie Jones and Richard Bakalyan). Benny’s got a little secret, though: he’s a pusher…
Horror Express (1972)
All aboard the Trans-Siberian Express – non stop to the shores of hell. That’s the interpretation of the priest character on board. But he’s off-base; it’s an alien monster that’s causing all the trouble – a monster derivative of “The…
The Power (1968)
This film was beautifully directed by camera whiz Byron Haskin, and it has a fine literate script, one of the best supporting casts ever assembled for a sci-fi movie and very good production values. The question is why the critics…
The Dark (1979)
Given that John “Bud” Cardos took over directorial chores three or four days into shooting after original director Tobe Hooper proved woefully out of his league handling a full-scale production crew, “The Dark” definitely isn’t the wretched, foul-smelling unmitigated stinker…
The Strangler (1964)
This movie is actually based on the Boston Strangler. There are many hints to it such as; women setting up bottles in front of their door so they can hear the strangler coming in, the stocking tied around the victim’s…
Star Odyssey (1979)
There are many movies that are “so bad they are good”, and then some that are so bad you just have to kind of marvel at them. This movie is hypnotic, and suggests a vision of some sort that is…
Street Trash (1987)
Aside from surrealist art flicks like ERASERHEAD or BEGOTTEN, STREET TRASH is unquestionably the most outlandish, astoundingly bizarre movie ever produced. It really doesn’t have a cohesive plot per se, but it mainly concerns a newly discovered type of liquor…
Comin’ at Ya! (1981)
By 1981, the heyday of the Spaghetti Western was over..that golden era finished..played out…& pretty much left for dead. A few interesting stragglers trickled out…”Mannaja” in ’77..Lucio Fulci delivered “Silver Saddle” in ’78.. & Michele Lupo’s “Buddy Goes West” in…
Mutant Hunt (1987)
Some claim this is a BLADE RUNNER ripoff but I know the truth. In the distant future, failed filmmaker Ridley Scott built a time machine and decided to go back in time to film MUTANT HUNT, what many in this…