Shock Waves (1977)
Considered by genre fans to be the best of the “Nazi zombie” sub genre, “Shock Waves” is a thickly and palpably atmospheric horror film with enough spooky and creepy moments and images to make it very satisfying viewing. Co-written &…
April Fool’s Day (1986)
One of the more fondly remembered horror entries of the ’80’s is this unique gem that’s much more clever and amusing than the average slasher film. Young woman invites her beloved college friends to her island home for a weekend…
Moon Zero Two (1969)
Hammer Films had a uncanny ability of making good movies cheaply, ( or making cheap films of good quality,), and Moon Zero Two is a fine if for them somewhat offbeat example of their craftsmanship. Billed as a “space western”…
God Told Me To (1976)
One afternoon in NYC a sniper on top of a high-rise buildings water tower opens fire on the people milling down on the city streets. With uncanny accuracy he guns down fifteen people. Det. Peter Nicholas, Tony Lo Bianco, climbs…
Shock Corridor (1963)
To describe SHOCK CORRIDOR as lurid would be an understatement: it plays like something torn from a supermarket tabloid. An ambitious reporter feigns madness and has himself committed to an insane asylum in order to investigate a recent and unsolved…
Money Movers (1978)
This excellent Aussie crime flick centers on the workers at Darcy, a money courier service. Things get tense when an anonymous note arrives stating that their counting room – which sometimes houses as much as $20 million – is going…
Alladin (1986)
Entertaining and funny Italian film with the bouncing Spencer or Carlo Perdesoli as the magician Aladdin who this time travels to modern era emerging from a magic lamp . Updating of the old “Aladdin” Arabian Nights tale with a ¨genie…
Armed Response (1986)
David Carradine and Lee Van Cleef star as father and son cops who join forces to avenge the murder of their sons/brothers at the hand of the triads who are after a priceless artifact that the hapless family has gotten…
Red and Blue American Movies
I was at lunch this week with my wife, and I noticed a long time theater owner and a man who I respect greatly sitting having lunch as well. After we had both finished eating I approached him and just…
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
“The Mini-Skirt Mob” is no classic (which, given that title, should come as no surprise) but it delivers enough action to make it worthwhile. Diane McBain stars as the leader of a female motorcycle gang, who is determined to punish…
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
The Hellstrom Chronicle is a documentary about insects wrapped within a fiction. Visually it’s incredibly stunning, very similar to Microcosmos in its “how did they get that shot?” camerawork. The film is narrated by a fictional scientist who claims that…
The Slayer (1982)
Four young people vacation on a barren island. One of them, a female artist, has dreams that depict ghastly murders. Sure enough, the fun begins when her boyfriend is found dead, and others begin to die, too. Soon, she becomes…
Death Screams (1982)
Locals are celebrating the last night of carnival, such as newly in-love couple Bob and Kathy, coach, Neil Marshall, waitresses, timid blonde Lily and comely, nubile Ramona, their boss Jackson and learning difficulties teenage peeping tom Casey who’s dad Avery…
Iced (1988)
I was surprised just how good this movie was. A group of friends reunite for a get together at a lodge in the snow. We get to know these people, whether grudge holders, wild girls, vain types, through a generous…
Pledge Night (1990)
The producers Shapiro/Glickenhaus, who were also responsible for one of my all time-trash favorites (Frank Henenlotter´s “Frankenhooker”) made another “Friday”-rip off possible, which is better than most of the reviews say about it (What does not mean that “Pledge Night”…
Haunts (1976)
This has a Bergmanesque spareness to it that is at times OK. The plot is terribly convoluted and confusing. I don’t even know if we have closure at the end. Just what does it all mean? I remember May Britt…
Home for the Holidays (1972)
Enjoyably outlandish made for TV movie. The plot is nothing new, just another rehash of the danger in the old creaky house thriller. What really is of interest in this is the cast. The great thing about these television films…
The Headless Eyes (1971)
A thieving artist has his eye gouged out by a spoon when trying to rob a woman’s apartment. This nutter then goes round New York killing women whose eyeballs he removes, which he uses to create a new bit of…
Final Exam (1981)
I really enjoyed this unoriginal and very predictable slasher flick. The movie revolves around a couple of students who still haven’t finished their final exams that soon come to realize that a mad serial killer is on the loose. This…
Out of the Dark (1988)
I for one was always a watcher of B suspense horror flicks and the 80’s produced some good ones the way they were done with sex, skin, and guessing suspense. I just recently viewed this one little gem called “Out…