The Girl from Starship Venus (1975)
THE SEXPLORER is a low budget exploitation quickie from notorious director Derek Ford, whose SEX EXPRESS made the following year would prove to be even more outrageous and no-holds-barred than this film. By comparison, THE SEXPLORER is a slightly quaint…
7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
There’s a proverb somewhere that states that youth is wasted on the young.One might similarly feel that the wisdom of fairy tales,folklore,and fantasy are wasted on children.While I,for one would hesitate to go that far,I feel that the messages contained…
Space Master X-7 (1958)
Behind this bland, forgettable and indescriptive title is one of that decade’s more interesting low budget items. “Blood Rust” was probably the script’s original name, and this refers to the red coloring of Mars which, as is found out on…
When Worlds Collide (1951)
Astronomers discover two planets coming Earth’s way that will destroy our planet. Time is needed to do the unthinkable: create a rocket ship that will fly 40 or so people to one of the planets passing by to keep the…
First Men in the Moon (1964)
The opening contains a hook of the first manned flight to the moon where a British union flag is found and it’s discovered that Senior citizen Arnold Bedford was in fact part of an expedition who had visited the moon…
Battle in Outer Space (1959)
A truly great science fiction epic with plenty of futuristic hardware, alien invaders and cool spaceships. The best! It’s finally available as of 2009 on DVD, although if you look hard you can find gray-market versions or bootlegs from Laserdiscs….
The Lost Missile (1958)
Undeniably tense and frightening, an extremely low budget film that is a clever combination of fantastic Air Force and Civil Defense stock footage with effective, chilling special effects. This is quite an achievement of creativity overcoming limited resources. The movie…
War Between the Planets (1966)
This is Italian Sci-Fi; but no matter where WAR BETWEEN the PLANETS comes from…this low-budget feature is bad enough to be laughable. Some movies are bad enough to be good; this one leaves a lot to be desired. Scientists discover…
Invasion of the Animal People (1959)
Actually it’s a Swedish-American collaboration. A spaceship (that looks VERY much like a meteor) crashes in Northern Sweden before the eyes of some Samis. Some people, including the young geologist Erik Engström and the American Dr Wilson, travel up to…
Requiem for a Vampire (1971)
This is not Jean Rollin’s best film, but it might be his most essential one for fans because it combines the moody visuals of films like “Fascination” and “Two Orphan Vampires” with the perverse softcore sex of films like “Bacchanales…
The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
Completed in April 1964, “Surf Terror” had to wait over a year before finally being issued under the more exploitive title “The Beach Girls and the Monster,” quickly making its way to TV screens under still another, “Monster from the…
The Mysterians (1957)
Although best known for their Godzilla series, Japan’s Toho Studios made many other sci fi and fantasy films. This was the first of many that would be about aliens from another world invading Earth {that idea would be later incorporated…
The Phantom Creeps (1939)
This is a serial, like the classic Radar Men on the Moon, and Buck Rogers. Unlike it’s compressed TV movie version (1949), this more protracted version of Phantom Creeps wanders all over the map at a frenetic pace. The Phantom…
The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960)
The first time I saw THE VAMPIRE AND THE BALLERINA, it was in an 8-millimeter version that belonged to my cousin(remember the old 8 and Super 8 millimeter versions of old movies you could buy at K-mart and show on…
Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?: The Decline Of The Movie Hero
Where is my John Wayne Where is my prairie song Where is my happy ending Where have all the cowboys gone Paula Cole As pictures of Harvey Weinstein smirking and being led into a New York Police Station in order…
The Black Castle (1952)
All Boris Karloff fans will love this classic film, where Karloff is the castle physician and gives his patients excellent attention. Sir Ronald Burton,(Richard Greene), an eighteenth-century English adventurer, believes his two friends have been murdered by Count Von Bruno,(Stephen…
The Psychopath (1966)
Cinematographer and Director Freddie Francis who is best known for his work at Hammer Studios in Britain, (a classy outfit that remade the Universal Horror classics with verve and in color and produced some of the most remembered movies of…
Drum (1976)
This was the so-called sequel to “Mandingo” and its not really a sequel but another excuse for exploitation which can be fun to watch. Ken Norton is “Drum” and he can’t act to save his life but his physique is…
Black Force (1975)
WOW! They don’t come more incompetent than this. A Blaxploitation flick where four karate experts are hired to retrieve a stolen African witchdoctor fetish doll. The entire movie consists of them getting the job, asking people where it is, kicking…
Velvet Smooth (1976)
For a low-budget 70’s martial arts film, I thought it was pretty entertaining. The soundtrack is really a hoot, as are the sets and costumes. I especially enjoyed the scene where King and Velvet are on the sofa and you…