Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
A great giallo from a director who made too-few forays into the genre but come up with the goods each time. In particular, this (like “The Fifth Cord”) is a great example of how the giallo creates a particular physical…
12 to the Moon (1960)
This film remains rather stilted and slow-moving and that’s not a good thing in what is essentially a 1950s style Rocketship B-Movie…it has many of the trademarks common to those…hurtling meteor storm attacks!, silly and impossible solutions to every problem…
Freaks (1932)
It is ironic how director Tod Browning followed up “Dracula”–a horror film with painterly set design and a distinct atmosphere of unease–with a horror film more grounded in reality. Whereas the sets in “Dracula” were as skillfully rendered as the…
Death Race 2000 (1975)
‘Death Race 2000’, like ‘Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls’, ‘The Omega Man’, ‘Repo Man’ and ‘Rock’n’Roll High School’, is one of those dependable all time favourite trash classics that I watch regularly and never fail to get a smile…
The Manhandlers (1974)
Three girls take over a massage parlor only to have the mob pressure them into making it a whorehouse. The overall tone of this movie tries to be serious but comes off light and playful. It really has an innocence…
Intruder (1989)
INTRUDER is without a doubt one of the last great slashers from the genre’s peak decade. Scott Spiegel had been a friend of both Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell since hi school and had also worked with them on most…
Blood Bath (1966)
One of the most underrated gonzo films of all times! On the surface, this is an atmospheric, low-budget and sometimes confusing horror film. But this amazing work is composed of three separate films and was several years in the making….
Web of the Spider (1971)
The opening of this film treats us to Klaus Kinski in twice his usual state of delirium – thrashing about in a shadowy, cobweb-laden crypt. He’s playing Edgar Allan Poe, and he looks the very embodiment of an absinthe-soaked poete…
Mad Max (1979)
Mad Max (1979) is a low budget Aussie film that became a huge success in the U.S. because of it’s sequel Mad Max 2 a.k.a. The Road Warrior. Not only did this movie spawned a franchise but it created a…
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
One of few truly great “creature” films, THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON is a surprisingly effective horror film concerning a scientific expedition up the Amazon to investigate an unusual fossil find–but instead of fossils the crew members encounter an…
The Flight Of The Phoenix: Movie Going Has A New Brave Voice
In Greek mythology, a phoenix is a long-lived bird that cyclically regenerates or is otherwise born again .Associated with the Sun, a phoenix obtains new life by arising from the ashes of its predecessor. According to some sources, the phoenix…
Evil Dead II (1987)
This film, is without a shadow of a doubt, one of finest, most imaginative comedy horror films ever made. Raimi, has put all the aspects of the film together in masterful fashion. The camera work and sound effects are pulsating,…
The Mummy (1932)
With one of Boris Karloff’s numerous acting successes and a production done the way that a horror feature should be made, this is a well-crafted classic of the genre. From the first scene, the right atmosphere is established, and the…
Hangup (1974)
“Super Dude” covers all the cliches of your basic black action movie, but covers them with a certain slickness and style that suggest an above-average director. That turns out to be the case; the director this time is Hollywood veteran…
Hit Man (1972)
This brutal , austere crime-thriller focuses cheerless Tyrone in the title role (a tough , amoral African-American Bernie Casey) , he’s a hit-man who returns home to investigate his brother’s death by some mobsters . Two-fisted Tyrone in order to…
The Woman Eater (1958)
Before coming back to civilization from the uncivilized and unexplored Amazon jungle Dr. Moran, George Coulouris, came upon a secret that the local natives had all to themselves for generations, the restoration of life for the recently departed among us….
Roustabout (1964)
Welcome to 1964. Elvis is still stuck in movie limbo, the Beatles are ready to conquer America, and this movie pops up. Elvis has one of his better roles since Flaming Star, as he plays a angry young man named…
Sleepaway Camp (1983)
This 1983 horror slasher gem was written and directed by first time director Robert Hiltzik. The story begins with a boating accident which kills the main character Angela’s father and brother. We then move forward in time, now Angela is…
Mission Mars (1968)
The year: 1968. The movie “2001: A Space Odyssey” sets new technological and intellectual standards in the SF genre. Likewise 1968: The movie “Mission Mars” sets new standards of daftness and technological incompetence in the SF genre. The unsuitable, excruciating…
Fire Maidens of Outer Space (1956)
As the fire maidens walk briskly around in circles the suspense builds to a crescendo while a taut rescue is planned to save the lead Fire Maiden from her imminent sacrifice, a scene with this measure of suspense has never…