Curse of the Faceless Man (1958)
ndeed, the title character of this patently ridiculous schlock feature does not have a face. Incased in stone, he was a slave named Quintillus Aurelius in the days of ancient Rome, when Mount Vesuvius erupted and caused the destruction of…
Gang Wars (1976)
It starts out with a group of monks wearing orange robes carrying a tomb, with a head monk dressed in a black robe. They are away from the public eye out in a rocky woods area, walking through some trails…
Night of the Witches (1970)
“Night of the Witches” is a psychedelic 70’s horror comedy about a lewd preacher who meets up with a coven of sexy witches.The main witch Cassandra often speaks with Jupiter in her colorful mansion.Very strange and somewhat surreal horror comedy…
Doctor Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972)
Paul of course is a werewolf with a witch sidekick and when this robber guy starts going on about revenge and involving the locals it doesn’t turn out right for anyone, as more villagers end up dead, the rest get…
Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972)
Dr. Frankenstein (Dennis Price) arrives at his new abode only to find the dead bat body of Dracula (Howard Vernon) in his basement. With the help of his Frankenstein monster, the doc has a local burlesque dancer kidnapped and uses…
Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)
The Queen of the Hellenes has been taken by the Babylonians as a slave. Troubles is, they don’t realise they have her but the Assyria n king does. He visits the three rulers – two brothers and a sister –…
Down With David – web series
The web series Down With David is a raunchy comedy about a straight guy struggling to pay the bills who takes a job dancing in a gay bar in West Hollywood that soon discovers he’s able to pick up more…
Frankenstein Meets the Spacemonster (1965)
In outer space, a Martian spacecraft commanded by Princess Marcuzan (Marilyn Hanold) and her assistant Dr. Nadir (Lou Cutell) is traveling to Earth to abduct women to breed a new race, since an atomic war has annihilated Martian women. Meanwhile…
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Amicus are famous for the anthology films, and that’s hardly surprising since they made so many. The majority of the anthologies they made are entertaining, and I don’t think I’ve ever really seen a bad one; Asylum, The Vault of…
Sandokan the Great (1963)
An effective jungle adventure yarn from one of Italy’s greatest cult directors – Umberto Lenzi, who would later go on to greater fame with his polizia and horror movies in the ’70s and ’80s. Here, his pacy direction keeps SANDOKAN…
Explosion (1969)
The film’s shoestring budget is glaringly apparent throughout. Bad sound. Bad lighting. Cheap, washed out film stock. Atrocious direction. Over-the-top acting. Gordon Thomson is painfully wooden as the central character, Alan Evans, who flees to Canada to avoid the draft….
I Am Curious: MoviePass
Companies whose branding that is primarily red , if Netflix has shown us anything is something that should give the movie exhibition business cause to pause. When I first heard of MoviePass, I thought to myself that this was wacky….
The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)
This is a wonderful, thoughtful little film with timeless messages about prejudice and what it is to be human. A lot of people comment on the low budget, but there were some A list Hollywood people involved in making this…
Creature of the Walking Dead (1965)
Had to do some research on this one. This film was originally a Mexican film directed by Frederic Corte and titled ‘La Marca Del Muerto’ American director Jerry Warren bought the rights, threw in a few new scenes, took out…
The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
I cannot claim to be an expert on Mexican Horror cinema so far, but I certainly intend to dig out more films of the kind of this gem. “Misterios De La Ultratumba” aka. “The Black Pit of Dr. M”/”Mysteries From…
The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
1962’s “The Man Who Finally Died,” released December 1963, was a BBC serial that originally aired in 1959, with this feature version following three years later, with an entirely different cast. Stanley Baker stars as British subject Joe Newman, formerly…
Psycho à Go-Go (1967)
In 1965 Al Adamson produced and directed a very low budget quickie called “Psycho A Go-Go”, in which an ex-soldier is turned into a zombie-slave-killer by criminals who implant a device in his brain. The film was a big flop….
High School Caesar (1960)
John Ashley gives a memorable performance in this teen exploitation drama of a spoiled but neglected rich kid who pretty much controls the lives of his classmates, arranging for himself to be elected student body president so he can extort…
What Other Couples Do – Review
What Other Couples Do is a movie about four married Los Angeles couples who get together for a dinner party and decide to play Seven Minutes in Heaven, “a kissing game.” Courtney Daniels wrote and directed the movie and did…
Love Hunger (1962)
This is a review of the US release LOVE HUNGER, which takes an excellent 1962 Argentinian crime film, set in a desolate rural area, dubs it into English and adds a 12 minute color US-shot nudie sequence as a “flashback”…