The Fountain Of Love (1966)
In this comedy, set in an Austrian mountain village, the town leaders conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical “fountain of love” that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents…
How I Stopped Worrying And Learned To Love Antitrust Laws
While making plans for the legal decimation of the Paramount Decree, the current Presidential Administration is making plans for engaging with various social media companies for supposed anti-trust violations. Hollywood and the antitrust laws have a long and bitter history….
Foxtrap (1986)
Action star Williamson was trying to give up his Jesse Crowder character and start a new character called Fox. He drives a car with a licence plate saying “DA FOX” ! Funny scene in the beginning where kids try to…
Frankenstein (1958)
Atmosphere is important in any horror film and this movie has it in spades. Unfortunately, that’s all it has. Really very little to recommend here. Karloff is good in this movie but completely wasted in this effort and far too…
Frightmare (1983)
One of the last surviving horror screen greats – Conrad Radzoff – dies and has his body placed in a mausoleum with televised-before-death snippets of the great Conrad greeting you as you visit. Unfortunately for him and his captors, Conrad’s…
Jump (1971)
A word of warning to people who are considering watching this movie. Despite the reissue title (“Fury on Wheels”) and the video box art showing off speeding and crashing cars, there’s actually very little vehicular work on display in the…
The Hands of Orlac (1960)
One of the numerous film versions of the compelling story of The Hands of Orlac, a pianist who has a murderer’s hands grafted on to his after an accident. This time Mel Ferrer is Stephen Orlac. Ferrer actually does a…
Class of 1984 (1982)
The 1980s were a bit of a let down after the 1970s for exploitation fans, but there were a few gems released alongside the ‘Risky Business’s and ‘Mr.Mom’s. ‘Chained Heat’ and ‘The Exterminator’ immediately spring to mind, and ‘Class Of…
Zombies of Mora Tau (1957)
I can never resist a good Zombie movie, and this one gives that interesting twist ….the zombies appear to be amphibious! They are protecting their treasure resting at the bottom of the murky waters….and do so by scaring the treasure-seekers…
Dark Intruder (1965)
“Dark Intruder” stars the incomparable Leslie Nielsen as Brett Kingsford, an occult expert who is brought in to help the police investigate a series of ritualistic slayings. In each case, an ivory carving of a gargoyle is left at the…
An Hour to Kill – Review
Two assassins-for-hire have an hour to kill (so to speak) before their next hit. To help pass the time, they entertain themselves by regaling horror stories to one another. With bizarre titles such as “Valkyrie’s Bunker” “Assacre” and “Hog Hunters”…
Hands of Steel (1986)
THIS is a totally awesome, adrenalin rushing, down and dirty in-your-face 80’s Italian exploitation effort, but of course you have to be cautious who you may recommend it to! If you’re, for example, attending a convention for people with an…
The House Where Evil Dwells (1982)
This could have been interesting a Japan-set haunted house story from the viewpoint of a newly-installed American family but falls flat due to an over-simplified treatment and the unsuitability of both cast and director. The film suffers from the same…
Honky (1971)
In a more enlightened age when interracial relationships are widely accepted, films like HONKY are pretty much abandoned by relevance and exist primarily as a time capsule. This is, nonetheless, a fairly decent 20th century American love story wherein the…
The Frozen Dead (1966)
The creator of IT! (1966) also made this preposterous but slightly more enjoyable precursor to the “Nazi Zombie” sub-genre earlier that same year and, funnily enough, I came across both these hitherto rare movies almost simultaneously from different sources which is…
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…
The Cosmic Man (1959)
“The Cosmic Man” is about an alien craft that arrives on Earth. While the humans involved argue over how to deal with the situation, the Cosmic Man himself (John Carradine) materializes. But it’s not certain just what his presence means;…
Rush To Judgement: The Dismantling Of The Paramount Decree
The foundation on which the modern motion picture exhibition industry appears to have a deep shift. The Department of Justice recently opened a review of the Paramount Consent Decrees that for over seventy years have regulated how certain movie studios…
Space Amoeba (1970)
The enjoyment that you derive out of this movie is directly proportional to what your expectations are. I’m a big fan of Honda’s work, he’s made some of the very best giant monster (not just limited to Japanese kaiju) movies…
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Sequel to “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (the Disney version) and prequel to “Mysterious Island” (1961 version) relating the further adventures of Jules Verne’s Captain Nemo and his submarine community. As in those two films (and the Jules Verne novels…