The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
Insanely entertaining post-apocalypse garbage from those always dependable Italians is good for some excitement and *many* laughs. Robert Iannucci, looking like American actor Martin Kove, stars as sleazy lone wolf “Alien”, roaming the desert landscapes and making trouble. He makes…
Phase IV (1974)
Saul Bass’s “Phase IV” lies within the interstices of science fiction and horror, and adds an unexpected element: that of sheer awe and mystery. As a partial inspiration for his film, Bass likely had the 1971 faux documentary “The Hellstrom…
Oasis of the Zombies (1982)
This is Jesus Franco’s addition to the zombie boom of the early 80s. He may be an exploitation director but is more a sleaze-monger than an out and out horror film-maker. In this respect he is similar to Jean Rollin,…
Warlords of the Deep (1978)
Warlords of Atlantis starts deep in outer-space as the credits play over a large ball of flaming Martian rock as it hurtles towards a prehistoric Earth & ends up in the Sea… The film then switches to the middle of…
The One Armed Executioner (1981)
Ramon Ortega (Guerrero) is an Interpol agent living in the Philippines. His professional and personal relationships have never been better, including his marriage to his hot blonde American wife Ann (Kay) – until one day tragedy strikes. A gang of…
Alligator (1980)
This great B-movie unspools like a Sergio Leone revenge tale. Big mean Daddy flushes daughter’s baby gator, Ramon, down the toilet. Sixteen years later, Ramon has grown up to be a 36-foot mutated maneater stalking the mean sewers of the…
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971)
Yet another early 70’s giallo with one of those cryptic zoophilic titles. A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin is a very fine example of this most Italian of exploitation sub-genres and is possibly the best film that Lucio Fulci ever…
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things (1972)
The story is nothing remarkable–a bunch of hippy actors invade an island, raise the flesh-eating dead, and die horribly. What is memorable about this movie is the “execution.” The characters are all wonderfully obnoxious actors. They spit campy, bitchy, memorable…
Alone In The Dark (1982)
“Alone in the Dark” centers on a small New Jersey community, where Dr. Dan Potter is assigned to work as a new doctor at “The Haven”, a mental institution outside of town, run by Dr. Leo Bain (Donald Pleasance). The…
Night of the Blood Beast (1958)
Considering that the crew appear to have constructed the prop space capsule out of a septic tank, this is a decent little el cheapo scifi flick. A film buff with the slightest knowledge of the major auteurs goes into a…
The Snow Creature (1954)
Silly, preposterous cheapie from Billy Wilder’s incowpetant kid brother, W. Lee Wilder(“Killers from Space”, “Phantom from Space”, “Manfish”). A churlish failed botanist & a drunk photographer lead a group of Japanese actors trying to pass as Tibetans into some poorly…
The Terrornauts (1967)
The Terrornauts which looks like it was shot on a budget for a real and not Walt Disney high school musical, is one of the quirkiest science fiction films ever made. That’s in fact part of its charm, a Star…
Atomic Shark (2016)
And just when you thought you had seen every conceivable type of shark that Hollywood could spew out, then “Atomic Shark” comes to take a bite out of you. But let’s be honest, with a title such as “Atomic Shark”,…
Streaming Wars: The Implosion Of Hollywood
It is 2:00 AM in Beverly Hills. The air is quiet…the odd dog barks, private security firms patrol the streets. In master bedrooms studio executives face the knowledge that their world is coming and are not sleeping well. The Fox…
Streaming Wars: The Coming Implosion Of Hollywood
It is 2:00 AM in Beverly Hills. The air is quiet…the odd dog barks, private security firms patrol the streets. In master bedrooms studio executives face the knowledge that their world is coming and are not sleeping well. The Fox…
Tourist Trap (1979)
During the late seventies and early eighties, Paramount Pictures began a streak of quality horror films paralleled only by the Universal Films of the thirties and forties. Exemplified by the Friday the 13th series, My Bloody Valentine, Silver Bullet, April…
Bad Milo (2013)
Bad Milo is another great example of what is right in horror comedy the last few years! Its a perfect blend of bad one liners, potty humor, heart and gore. Who would have thought that a film that teaches us…
Black Friday (1940)
This is not a bad film; it’s a serviceable “B” thriller. In fact it is very reminiscent of the fine Columbia Studios Boris Karloff mad doctor/gangster/horror films of the late Thirties and early Forties. Curt Siodmak collaborated with Eric Taylor…
The Killing (1956)
‘The Killing’ has been overshadowed by Stanley Kubrick’s subsequent better known and better made movie masterpieces. Films like ‘Dr. Strangelove’, ‘2001’ and ‘A Clockwork Orange’ are much more flamboyant and intellectually exciting than this early hard boiled crime thriller, but…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein must be Destroyed is one of the best of the hammer horror series; and that is saying something, as the studio has produced a lot of horror highlights. Peter Cushing stars as Baron Frankenstein, the mad doctor whom everyone…