The Sand (2015)
A whole bunch of students get together for big beach party where they have to turn in their phones for a Vegas rules party. They don’t want anybody recording something they shouldn’t plus this gives the writer the opportunity to…
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…
Pickup on South Street (1953)
In this excellent Twentieth-Century Fox film-noir, the metropolis is a labyrinth of despair in which scavengers and predators survive by living off one another. Brooding cityscapes lower over puny humanity in bleak expressionist symbolism. A prostitute has her purse snatched…
White Dog (1982)
White Dog is often mentioned on lists of all-time most controversial films, and there’s a good reason for that. Samuel Fuller’s film is controversial because it confronts the theme of racism head on, and succeeds where modern films such as…
THE CONDO – Coming Soon
Director James Cullen Bressack got his start in films by mostly making horror films and in recent years his portfolio has quickly grown to include genres of family, thriller, drama, and comedy. His latest film THE CONDO is an outrageous…
The Grand Duel (1972)
It could be said that The Grand Dual is merely a vehicle for its lead star, and whoever said it wouldn’t necessarily be wrong; but while this film doesn’t feature a lot of originality, it’s also true that Italian cinema…
The Big Gundown (1966)
This film is often referred to as “the best non-Leone spaghetti western.” That may very well be true. For me, it’s difficult to decide because there are a couple of others that I like about as much as this one….
The Brotherhood of Satan (1971)
‘Brotherhood Of Satan’ is a very interesting and overlooked Seventies Satanic thriller. Initially you might lump it in with silly-but-fun schlock like ‘The Devil’s Rain’ and ‘Race With The Devil’ but it’s actually a much more complex and ambitious movie…
Dr. Who and the Daleks (1965)
o followers of the original TV series, this plot will be as familiar as the Daleks’ squawking cries of ‘Exterminate,’ and despite some changes to the cast (most notably the Doctor being portrayed as a human), it faithfully captures the…
Electra Glide in Blue (1973)
Before he found himself on the wrong side of a murder investigation, Blake was noted for playing an unconventional cop on the TV show “Baretta” (and also the flip side as a brutal killer in the film “In Cold Blood”.)…
The Bus Is Coming (1971)
k, obscures how tentative, even meliorist, the politics of many of these movies could be. The Panthers here, while sympathetic, are also juvenile and deluded. Meanwhile the text talks up ‘one racist cop’ but he’s no scuzzier than his partner,…
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
1975’s “A Boy And His Dog” defies categorization, much like the outspoken author who penned its Nebula-winning source novella. Harlan Ellison has resisted the genre label for his entire 900+ short story career (“call me a ‘science fiction’ writer, and…
Poor Pretty Eddie (1975)
One of the great undiscovered jewels of Truly Bad Cinema! It’s almost useless to try to write a commentary on this, because this film is indescribable. Leslie Uggams (whose acting consists of exactly two expressions, defensive and shrieking) plays a…
The Plaza
Older single, double and triple screen theatres are truly magical places. They are a place that holds for many a deep and abiding memory and within them you can mark your life. Young children being taken by their parents to…
Die Sister, Die! (1978)
Rich siblings Edward & Amanda are feuding over their late father’s estate. Amanda is also suicidal since she is grief-stricken over her involvement in the death of her father & the disappearance of her sister. Edward hires Esther, a former…
The Devil’s Wedding Night (1973)
Italian Gothic Horror films from the 60s and 70s are usually as elegant, eerie and rewarding as Horror can get. While Luigi Batzella’s “Il Plenilunio Delle Vergini” aka. “The Devil’s Wedding Night” of 1973 is certainly no highlight of the…
Dead of Night (1974)
Though filmed in the early 1970s, Deathdream doesn’t come off as hopelessly dated. Its themes resonate strongly even today. As an allegory, the film makes its anti-war points bluntly. This war (thought it is never named it’s obviously Vietnam) is…
The Tingler (1959)
“The Tingler” is the name that Vincent Price’s likable scientist character gives to the creature that apparently is responsible for the sense of spine-tingling fear we all experience at some point in our lives. If we scream, The Tingler is…
Body in the Web (1960)
This West German production is a bona-fide trash classic. It’s monumentally silly but hugely enjoyable. It concerns a troupe of female dancers and their manager whose plane crash lands in the ocean, leaving them stranded on a desert island. This…
Las Vegas Lady (1975)
This on the money solid and enjoyable Crown International Pictures crime caper affair comes across like a cheerfully low-rent drive-in discount version of “Ocean’s 11.” Adding immensely to this film’s already considerable entertainment value is the always charming and delightful…