Africa addio (1966)
Africa Addio, more commonly known as Africa Blood & Guts (so named by infamous exploitation distributor Jerry Gross), is undeniably masterful at holding one’s attention. But it makes the sleaze and sensationalism of Mondo Cane seem like something produced by…
Bucktown (1975)
Blaxploitation flick about a man (Fred Williamson) who travels south to bury his brother but learns that the place is being run by a bunch of crackers (redneck white folks). After the cops try bullying him, the man calls in…
Master Of Your Own Cinematic Destiny
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. Invictus by William Ernest Henley This week myself and other members of our…
Nemesis (1992)
This sexy, slick, sci-fi, shoot them-up, is a bit unpolished, but sure is fun to watch. Kick-boxer Olivier Gruner is so busy bucking them down he hardly has time to show some love round house kick style. The movie takes…
The Legend of Bigfoot (1975)
This movie is about 90% stock footage of animals with a really dull voice-over talking about Bigfoot. If I had a dollar for every time he said the name “Bigfoot” throughout this 92 minutes of coma inducing stock footage, I…
Residue (2015)
I’m just about never the one to complain that a movie is ‘too slow’. 4 hour silent Russian epic? Sign me up! But this movie got the better of me. I’m fine with slow if there’s a purpose. Letting a…
The Human Vapor (1960)
Ishiro Honda is best known for his Kaiju films, which is rather a shame because he made many other fine and creative movies. This scifi/horror mix a good example of one of his more intimate, darker and multilayered creations and…
#WomenDirectors
In the past few years, public demand has grown for more women directors to helm projects in a field typically dominated by men. While gender equality is the primary motivation for this effort, the movie-going public particularly stands to gain…
Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)
After the blockbuster success of dance movies Fame and Flashdance, Lucio Fulci, Italy’s ‘King of Gore’, decided it would be a good idea to cash-in on the craze, so in 1984 he gave the world Murder Rock, a giallo style…
The New York Ripper (1982)
Though reviled by even some of the most ardent Fulci supporters, LO SQUARTATORE DI NEW YORK is actually one of the Italian maestro’s best works. The film belongs to the Italian “giallo” genre, a brand of thriller which emphasizes flashy…
The Haunting (1963)
THE HAUNTING(1963) is an important horror film because it is one of a tiny handful of films within the tradition that genuinely unsettle the viewer. Are the events at Hill House for real, or are they happening on the inside…
Baron Blood (1972)
Baron Blood is one of my favourite Mario Bava films. As usual, Bava seems dismissive of things like story, character and acting, and concentrates on creating a memorable mise-en-scene, which makes a lot of the juxtaposition of the old and…
Machete Kills (2013)
I love Machete. The character is incredible, the premise is perfect, literally everything about it just screams B-movie stupidity, and it’s insanely awesome. I actually saw this movie before the first Machete so I wasn’t sure what to expect, and…
Splice (2009)
Clive (Adrien Brody) and Elsa (Sarah Polley) are genetic scientists attempting to come up with a breakthrough protein that will help combat against deadly diseases. But the pharmaceutical company financing their work wants to push ahead, despite their insistence of…
Eye of the Beast (2007)
Arriving in a small fishing village, a researcher trying to investigate a local problem finds the cause to be a monstrous squid living in the waters and teams with some locals to try to stop the creature’ rampage. As a…
Operazione Goldman (1966)
Shot in Rome,usually known in the English speaking world as “Lightning Bolt”(so like “Thunderball”!),this movie is an especially tacky example of the Euro-Superspy genre of the 1960’s.Often these movies starred second string American actors to help US sales-and this has…
Xtro (1982)
After being abducted by aliens three years earlier Sam (Phillip Sayer) returns to earth and reunites himself with his wife Rachel (Bernice Stegers) and son Tony (Simon Nash). While Sam was away Rachel moved on with her life and started…
Visiting Hours (1982)
One of the better Canadian killer-thrillers of the 80’s is this solid shocker. TV journalist is attacked by a maniac and taken to the hospital, now the obsessive creep is determined to make sure she doesn’t get well soon! Visiting…
The House That Screamed (1970)
“The House That Screamed,” better known in Spain as “La residencia” (“The Residence”), focuses on a remote girls’ boarding school in nineteenth-century France. The school is run by the stone-cold Mademoiselle Fourneau (Lilli Palmer), whose methods of punishment border on…
Blood Glacier (2013)
Really, how many movies feature ibexes, let alone a mutant ibex-fly that gets a drill in the noggin by a feisty granny? This may entice you to watch “Blood Glacier” next time you see it in the Netflix lineup of…