Spy in the Sky! (1958)
1958’s “Spy in the Sky!” was clearly inspired by the launching of Sputnik, but was beaten to the screen by Roger Corman’s “War of the Satellites.” A little seen and rather ordinary spy thriller with no sci fi elements, starring…
THE LAGOON – Coming Soon
A cancer-sickened doctor goes to Puerto Rico to find a cure in a lagoon that holds unknown mysteries. After the success of AWAKEN, made by Actress and Producer Natalie Burn and her production company 7Heaven Productions, she is currently campaigning…
Actress Jackie Saland
Actress and Model Jackie Saland keeps busy rushing from set to set assisting directors, actors, various crew members, and is on speed dial for casting directors. In order for production to stay on time and budget, the different roles Jackie…
Graveyard Shift (1990)
You don’t hear or read much about this movie based on a short story written by Stephen King and I think that’s a shame. It sure ain’t no big masterpiece but it got several things going for it. Though, there…
The Neptune Factor (1973)
Not as exciting as the box cover artwork might suggest, with a painfully stilted characterisation by Ben Gazzara and capable supporting cast trapped in one-dimensional roles. The story concerns militant, officious salvage expert (Gazzara) contracted by an aquatic research team…
All the Way Boys (1972)
Likable Terence Hill and stocky Bud Spencer team up again as the valiant duo . The agreeable crew makes a new adventure movie plenty of fist-play , action and entertainment . This amusing film deal with ours intimate friends in…
Chosen Survivors (1974)
Chosen Survivors is directed by Sutton Roley and written by H.B. Cross. It stars Jackie Cooper, Alex Cord, Richard Jaeckel, Bradford Dillman, Barbara Babcock, Diana Muldaur and Lincoln Kilpatrick. Music is by Fred Karlin and cinematography by Gabriel Torres. It’s…
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Sure, Snake Plissken is a relic from the ultra-macho 80s action craze. Sure, Carpenter’s use of effects is often obvious (though occasionally brilliant). Sure, the film is nothing but a slab of highly fragrant cheese, but it’s FUN cheese. It’s…
Ginger Snaps Back: The Beginning (2004)
Neither sequel has been nearly as good as the original, but considering how brilliant “Ginger Snaps” was, no one could reasonably expect that. Actually, my main disappointment with both sequels is that I wanted what GS had–horror, humor, hipness, irony….
Curse of the Undead (1959)
The combining of westerns with horror has not always made for great films. I mean, who can forget “Billy the Kid vs. Dracula” and “Jesse James meets Frankenstein’s Daughter”. The exception is “Curse of the Undead”. This 1959 picture stars…
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)
Citizen Toxie is, without a doubt, the finest Troma film to date. Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma team managed to make a sequel to a twenty year old movie that is not only more succesful than the original, but has…
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
First of all, to approach “Birdemic: Shock and Terror” with any kind of hope of witnessing a good feature film is utter lunacy. “Amateur” is a word a thousand times too generous for this film’s description. Even given its low…
Carnival of Souls (1962)
This is something like a full-length episode of the Twilight Zone, popular at the time of the movie’s release. It’s cheaply made, the photography is grainy, the story basically simple, and the acting nothing to write home about — but…
The Rise Of The Independent Theatre
There is an deep undercurrent of change in the motion picture exhibition business. With the apparent sale of Regal to an operator whose major operations are in Eastern Europe and Israel as well as the beginning of some rather public…
Flesh Gordon (1974)
The filmmakers of Flesh Gordon spent so much effort lovingly recreating the look and feel of the original Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s that they actually created a soft porn movie with real (if very modest) cinematic worth. In…
The Evil Dead (1981)
For a film that was made on a budget that would make Steven Spielberg die laughing, “Evil Dead” was one for the most interesting pieces of horror cinema I’ve ever seen. I watched the series backwards, so “Army of Darkness”…
They Live (1988)
They Live is based on a pulp sci-fi story about aliens who live among us and manipulate us through subliminal advertising, other mind control techniques, and sometimes, guns and bulldozers. Like most Carpenter films, its artistic, fun, intelligent and does…
Deathsport (1978)
Inexpensive sequel to “Death Race 2000” (1975), that bares little relation (both in content and quality) to the original. Gone is the camp dialogue and black humour – arrived is a painfully ear-splitting synthesiser score, pyrotechnic displays and banal screenplay….
Mothra (1961)
Mothra is a movie based on a fantasy novel “Glowing fairies and Mothra” co-authored by Shinichiro Nakamura, Takehiko Fukunaga, and Yoshie Hotta. Name of the main protagonist Zenichiro Fukuda are combined names of these three co-authors (Chinese character Yoshi is…
Madison County (2011)
A group of kids on a road trip stop by Madison County, a small town full of weirdo, possibly psychotic dirty looking hicks, in order to interview a local author on his book he wrote based on a real serial…