I, Madman (1989)
Although everything about this movie (especially the title) suggests that it must be trash, surprisingly enough it isn’t. The plot involves a girl who likes reading scary books and one day finds that the events of the book she is…
The Boogens (1981)
The “Boogens” are scaly monsters that look somewhat like giant turtles with lots of sharp, nasty teeth. They are released from an abandoned, boarded-up silver mine in Colorado and proceed to do away with character after character. Only one homeless,…
Panic (1982)
This has to rank as one of the poorest Italian genre pictures that I have sat through. It’s about a virus that turns a scientist into a rotting homicidal maniac, leading to government plans to bomb the town where he…
I Am Curious: Drive-In
As I get older I like life to be simple. I tend to seek out things which have pure intent. In the world of cinema and cinema exhibition there is nothing purer than the drive-in. The drive-in is movie going…
Madhouse (1981)
Julia, a teacher in a school for the deaf, has a hideously deformed and deranged twin sister that resides in the local loony bin. She escapes to gate-crash a surprise birthday party for Julia. Sort of like “Halloween”, but not…
The Incubus (1982)
John Hough’s horror films are a mixed bunch, but this one is far more interesting than its horrendous critical reception would suggest. It is ostensibly a detective story of a small town policeman (John Cassavetes) investigating a series of unusually…
The Last Man on Earth (1964)
I’m not sure why this film is as underrated as it is. This is an amazing, depressing and in many ways brilliant film based on the Richard Matheson classic novel “I Am Legend”. Vincent Price effectively conveys the terror and…
The Company of Wolves (1984)
The Company of wolves is a very unique film that has to be watched with an open mind. It’s a very surreal fantasy-horror story all of which takes place within the mind of a sleeping adolescent girl. Each story is…
Slaughter High (1986)
Slaughter High is about a boy named Marty. He was harassed, and picked on in high school. A group of kids played several pranks on him, and these pranks were REALLY bad. The last prank ended tragically. Fats Forward to…
Free, White and 21 (1963)
The central conflict in this film is whether African-American businessman Ernie Jones (played by Frederick O’Neal) raped Swedish immigrant and civil rights Freedom Rider Greta Mae Hansen (played by Annalena Lund). Jones was the proprietor of the hotel at which…
The Lady and the Monster (1944)
Although I did like my two viewings of Felix E. Feist’s 1953 film version of Curt Siodmak’s DONOVAN’S BRAIN (with Lew Ayres and Gene Evans), somehow I have yet to acquire it for my home video collection; besides, I am…
Used Cars (1980)
Kurt Russell is Rudy Russo a slimy, dishonest used car salesman working for Luke Fuchs (Jack Warden) who yearns to be in Congress, where the real payola is. When Luke dies from one of the schemes of his evil brother,…
Bogard (1974)
A black guy from L.A. becomes a prize fighter for the mob. After an initial good working relationship, he becomes unhappy when he learns they are exploiting him. He leaves their organisation but the gangsters kill his wife in retaliation,…
Toxic Zombies (1980)
Some hippies camping in the woods get covered in poisoned LSD (don’t ask) and turn into zombies (again, don’t ask). Yup, it’s another world beater. Much like the similar “Video Nasty”, Don’t Go In The Woods, Forest of Fear has…
The Final Programme (1973)
This is one of those spectacular misfires; Fuest has taken Moorcock’s splendid book and cut everything down to the bone so much that what remains is only the irrelevant sci-fi plot that was basically a throwaway excuse to hang all…
Sugar Hill (1974)
Sugar Hill is that rare mixture of 70’s blaxploitation and horror that started in movies like Blacula, Scream Blacula Scream, Blackenstein, and others. It is a pretty neat little film with some good horror sequences of zombies in graveyards and…
Escalation (1968)
1968, London. Luca (Lino Capolicchio), the son of an Italian rich owner, is living his ‘swinging’ years away from duties and responsibilities while his father wants him to be introduced to the family business at any cost. Luca is first…
Shogun Assassin 3 (1972)
As the Lone Wolf prepares to dispense with an alluring female assassin who sports an elaborate full-body tattoo, his sense of honor clashes with his hunger for justice in this action epic adapted from the Lone Wolf and Cub film…
Shogun Assassin (1980)
Released today, film fans across the world would be throwing copies of Shogun Assassin onto bonfires because technically, it is 100x worse than the type of ‘rip offs’ that people keep accusing Tarantino of lately. Essentially, Shogun is the first…
Fists of the White Lotus (1980)
When Hung Wending and Brother Biu defeat Priest White Eyebrows, the White Lotus Clan comes out for revenge. When Shaolin monks are released from captivity, Ko Chun Chung and the master White Lotus Priest slaughter them and turn towards Ting…