Salon Kitty (1976)
‘Salon Kitty’ was Tinto Brass’ movie immediately prior to his infamous attempt at a big budget porn crossover ‘Caligula’. While it isn’t as notorious as that much talked about film, it is no slouch in the outrageousness department itself! Camp…
Der Sittlichkeitsverbrecher (1963)
Back in the art-house days, porn and classic foreign cinema coexisted, as a loyal fan base had been established for the risqué movies of Brigitte Bardot and later Ingmar Bergman-directed classics. This odd bird from Switzerland falls into the light…
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
A Fashion House is being plagued by a mysterious masked serial killer who is picking the girls off one by one in a variety of gruesome ways Why this Maniac is killing these girls is academic to the plot, as this…
Blood from the Mummy’s Tomb (1971)
Blood From The Mummy’s Tomb’ isn’t one of Hammer’s very best, but it’s still a ripping yarn about an expedition to Egypt which inadvertently awakens the powers of an evil Egyptian Queen with disastrous results. The movie is based on…
The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)
Recently viewed this little gem as “The Torture Chamber of Dr. sadism”. Originally released in the US and UK as “The Blood Demon”, while it’s German title was “Die Schlangengrube und Das Pendel”. An odd film that seemed to be…
No Postage Necessary – Now Available
No Postage Necessary – Now Available Love and laughter along with lies, heartbreak, and regret is the roller coaster ride of emotions that Sam (George Blagden) and Josie (Charleene Closshey) experience from start to finish in the feel good movie…
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962)
It’s great to be able to finally see “Confessions of an Opium Eater” in a decent print via DVD. It’s been obscure and unavailable for a long time. All I knew was that it existed, and a memory of some…
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Long before anesthesia, operations in London hospitals were wards of screaming patients in great pain and suffering. In 1840, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff),a great humanitarian surgeon, tries to eliminate all the pain and suffering connected with surgery. Bolton tries…
The Crawling Hand (1963)
THE CRAWLING HAND looks like something straight out of the 1950s, when TV was beginning to upset the Hollywood applecart, forcing the major studios to look for new angles and gimmicks (Todd A-O, Cinemascope, VistaVision, Cinerama, 3-D, stereo sound, and…
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)
Not to be confused with “Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde” (1972) or “Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Hyde” (1995), “Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957) is a moderately interesting quickie from legendary Poverty Row director Edgar G. Ulmer. In this one, Gloria…
The Vengeance of She (1968)
A young drop dead gorgeous blond woman named Carol(played by Olinka Berova-real name Olga Schoberová) is drawn to the lost city of Kuma and King Killikrates believing herself to be the reincarnation of the long dead queen goddess of Kuma–Ayesha(she…
Orgy of the Dead (1965)
Terrible movie that was “written” (you mean there was actually a script to this??) by Edward D. Wood Jr. though he didn’t direct it. You could have fooled me, as the incompetence of Stephen C. Apostolof is just as bad…
Zarak (1956)
This desert-set adventure flick exemplifies the subtle difference between Hokum and Camp: recently, I had watched its star, Victor Mature, in THE VEILS OF BAGDAD (1953) spirited, tongue-in-cheek and generally exuding an air of unpretentious low-budget professionalism, it falls…
Station Six-Sahara (1963)
Five men of disparate nationalities work an oil station in the sweaty Sahara; just as tempers begin to boil over within the group, a sexy girl and her ex-husband invade their territory (or rather, crash it–seems this reckless dame harbors…
Taking The Bull By The Horns: Theaters Take Back Control
Every week, I sit in front of my laptop and try to explain as best I can what I see as the issues facing independent theater owners. What I type is my perspective, and only my perspective. I am relying…
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
When a plague devastates life on Earth, the population dies or becomes a sort of zombie living in the dark. Dr. Robert Morgan (Vincent Price) is the unique healthy survivor on the planet, having a routine life for his own…
Shock Waves (1977)
‘Shock Waves’ is a low budget horror movie with few special effects… actually not very special effects at all. We’re talking a half a dozen “zombies” which are basically people in Nazi uniforms holding their breath underwater. The cast apart…
Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)
In the 1971 Italian giallo thriller “The Black Belly of the Tarantula,” we meet a very unusual policeman, Inspector Tellini. He is unusual, insofar as these gialli are concerned, because he’s unsure of himself, not certain if he should stay…
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
A “great movie” is not necessarily one that combines superb acting, character development, intelligent comedy and artistic direction. Instead, a great movie is one that succeeds in doing what it set out to do, and therefore the original Gone in…
Grizzly (1976)
Unjustifiably criticized as a “Jaws” rip-off at the time of it’s release “Grizzly” is a really good “Monster on the loose” movie. The film is about a 18 foot grizzly bear terrorizing campers in a national park with Christopher George,…