I Escaped from Devil’s Island (1973)
There are many stories arising from the infamous and nightmarish prison on French Guiana. This film, ” I escaped From Devil’s Island ” is one of them. If one is not too critical, which is easy, then the movie is…
The Slams (1973)
Forgotten blaxploitation flick has Jim Brown playing Curtis Hooks, a man who ends up in prison on a small charge but once inside he has all sorts of hits on his life because everyone knows that he stole $1.5 million…
Barracuda (1978)
Barracuda: The Lucifer Project is a movie with a social message that has its potentials but fails to realize them due to its pedestrian acting and mediocre directing. The plot is similar to that of Piranha but the suspense is…
Dark Waters (1944)
Leslie Calvin is the sole survivor of a submarine sinking and, having seen other survivors die before they could be saved, her mental health has suffered and it is only the help of Dr George Grover that sees her making…
I’ve Lived Before (1956)
Have we lived before? Is reincarnation a fact that can be proved scientifically as well as believed philosophically? This mystery of life after death, or death before life, has baffled the most renowned minds and thinkers since the dawn of…
Virtual Reality And Movie Theaters
This week I was on the road in Canada, the trees were exploding in a spectrum of fall colors and there was definitely a nip in the air. It has different energy than the USA, it’s laid back and highly…
The Invisible Man (1933)
James Whale is, for good reason, most famous for his Frankenstein films. However, better than both (albeit marginally) is this film – The Invisible Man. When I first saw this, I couldn’t believe that it’s over seventy years old and…
The Birds (1963)
Imagine Hitchcock trying to sell this idea to the film studios: the lives of a mundane country family are shattered when vicious rooks attack. Why? No particular reason. And what then? They fly away. and then? They come back again…
Inside – INSIDE NICK
Nickelodeon has been entertaining all ages for decades and currently they reach over 92 million households. Over the years Nick has provided hundreds of Nicktoons, movies, game shows, live-action, award shows, special events such as Slimefest and NASCAR events and…
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Despite appearances to the contrary at the end of the first film, Frankenstein (1931), the monster has survived. The quickly recuperating Dr. Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) is paid a visit by Dr. Pretorius (Ernest Thesiger), who has been engaging in…
Planet of the Vampires (1965)
In the film PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, there is an undeniable creeping dread, a very real sense of terror, in every scene. Despite the obvious lack of money, Bava wrung some eerie, disturbing imagery out of his sf schlock piece….
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
There’s something out there roaming the Pacific Ocean destroying a whole lot of shipping and killing a lot of people. The more maritime the nation, the more losses it’s suffering. Jules Verne’s story has the United States of America taking…
House of Dracula (1945)
This movies marks the final appearance for the famous classic horror characters; Dracula, The Frankenstein creature and The Wolf Man. Well yes, of course those characters would later appear in many other horror movies over the years, in many different…
Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)
A high minded German scientist [in the 1950’s??] is duped by a vengeful, deported gangster into creating atomic-powered zombies from the recently deceased, stolen from the local morgue, in order to wreak revenge upon his enemies.[Whew!] Now that is a…
Asylum Of The Insane (1967)
Bored diner waitress Jade (Claire Brennen) joins the carnival in search of excitement, where she quickly worms her way into the affections of wealthy freak show manager Steve St. John (Bill McKinney), the carnival’s most eligible bachelor. After a whirlwind…
Mania (1960)
Dr. Knox (Peter Cushing) is an Edinburgh-based doctor of anatomy whose ideas about research on deceased human bodies are in direct conflict with a law that limits the study of cadavers to criminals who have been executed. With these legal…
The Maze (1953)
When her fiancé Gerald (Richard Carlson) leaves before their wedding with no real answer, Kitty (Veronica Hurst) and her aunt (Katherine Emery) follow him to his family’s estate in Scotland. Once there the women discover that Gerald has aged for…
Night and the City (1950)
Imagine Charles Dickens had to make a bit of extra money by writing B-movies in Hollywood and you might get close to imagining this haunting, wonderful film. It fuses the best traditions of film noir with a very British atmosphere:…
The Food of the Gods (1976)
Wasps, worms, chickens, and rats feed off of an icky, gooey substance that causes them to grow to gigantic proportions, then terrorize the occupants of a remote mountain cabin. This trashy adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells story isn’t just…
Mimic (1997)
The idea of a film featuring genetically modified humanoid insects stalking the streets of New York makes me believe it would have a long shelf life – It`d spend a long time on a shelf waiting for a distributor ,…