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…
Garden of Death (1974)
Gardener is a 70s Horror Film starring Joe Dallesandro as the title character, a gardener with evil powers. More importantly, gardener who never wears a shirt with evil powers. Excited yet? The movie is very pretty, filmed in Puerto Rico….
The Funhouse (1981)
Two couples on a double date spend their evening at the local carnival, against the main character’s father’s wishes. Rumor was circulating that kids in another county were killed at that carnival in the past. But they ignore the father,…
The Shape Of Things To Come
Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell,1984 This week the motion picture exhibition industry feasted on the new life that Black Panther, Jurassic Park and Incredible’s 2…
City of the Living Dead (1980)
A priest commits suicide in order to open a gateway to hell. This leads to a series of grim events, including several supernatural zombies. City of the Living Dead is the second of Italian director Lucio Fulci’s four celebrated zombie…
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964)
“The Tomb of Ligeia” was one of a cycle of films made by Roger Corman in the sixties based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe. Verden Fell, an English country gentleman of the 1820s has become obsessed with his…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Frankenstein must be Destroyed is one of the best of the hammer horror series; and that is saying something, as the studio has produced a lot of horror highlights. Peter Cushing stars as Baron Frankenstein, the mad doctor whom everyone…
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
The fourth film of Hammer’s awesome Frankenstein series, legendary director Terence Fisher’s “Frankenstein Created Woman” of 1967 is another creepy and excellent Hammer gem, and my personal favorite film in the series. Movies like this are reason enough to admire…
Filmmaker Bola Ogun
Born and raised in Texas, filmmaker Bola Ogun is a first-generation American from Nigerian heritage. After attending the University of North Texas, she started working in the entertainment industry. Some of the early projects she worked on were Walking…
Evil Eye (1963)
Letícia Román stars as a young American woman who loves reading mystery novels. In fact, she’s seen reading a detective novel called “The Knife” when we meet her on the plane. She plans to stay with her aged aunt, but…
Port Sinister (1953)
The story and dialogue were fine and the island sets were outstanding (in the elaborate style of The Land Unknown) but the terrible amateur acting and poor line delivery by a large majority of the cast left Port Sinister dead…
Tomboy (1985)
Despite her masculine sounding name and a love of traditionally male pursuits (fixing cars, basketball, baseball, driving like a maniac), there’s nothing remotely butch about Tommy Boyd (Betsy Russell) when it comes to her physique: under the baseball cap and…
The Kiss (1988)
Amy (Meredith Salenger) finds her world turned upside down when her mother is killed in a freak accident. Soon her mother’s estranged sister, fashion model Felice (Joanna Pacula), has moved in and begins working her way into the family, starting…
Lost Continent (1951)
An atomic rocket crashes atop a lofty plateau on a South Sea island, a plateau where dinosaurs still survive. Three military men and three scientists climb to the top of the plateau and struggle through the savage environment to recover…
Back from the Dead (1957)
Divinely silly, I use that adverb with great relish, since this film has the sensations of a silent film without the creative know-how. It seems to be striving for every emotion mankind has ever known, jotting each line in the…
And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
In 1795, in England, the young woman Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) moves to the house of her fiancé Charles Fengriffen (Ian Ogilvy) in the country to get married with him. When she arrives, she feels interest in the portraits of the…
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
A secret rocket expedition to Space unexpectedly crashes back to Earth. One lone astronaut is found to have survived only he’s disheveled, not quite himself as he seems to be on the verge of some bizarre transformation! And what happened…
Playing Chicken: The Folly Of The Movie Subscription Services
I found myself on a whirlwind tour of Texas this week. Texas is dry, it is sprawling and produces an interesting dynamic of people. As I was driving to Laredo and really taking in the sprawling scrub, huge vistas and…
The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
“The Strange World of Planet X” (British, 1957; usually shown as “The Cosmic Monsters” on American TV) has been one of my favorites for many years. It’s been said that films of this type don’t appeal to anyone except the…
Jet Attack (1958)
Real life war hero John Agar stars in this ridiculous D picture from American-International about a rescue mission during the Korean War. For reasons I cannot fathom after watching this film, radioman Joseph Hamilton who is captured in North Korea…