Death of a Snowman (1976)
I know exploitation cinema isn’t exclusive to America, many countries around the world have made and continue to make exploitation, but I have to say that I’m rather surprised to see a Blaxploitation film hailing from South Africa. I suppose…
Night Train to Terror (1985)
God and Satan are on board a train where a rock band is playing. The two talk about who is respected more and then we see three separate stories. The first story deals with a man who feels guilty over…
Robot Holocaust (1986)
Director Tim Kincaid made other entertaining and campy films in NYC during the 80s like BREEDERS and BAD GIRLS DORMITORY (a favorite) but neither of those contain a performance as memorably bad as Angelika Jager. Speaking English with a heavy…
Nightmare City (1980)
Nightmare City (1980) TV news reporter named Dean Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) along with his cameraman (Antonio Mayans) waits at the airport for the arrival of a scientific that he is about to interview . Then , a Hercules C 1330…
Eliminators (1986)
OK….. mix in a bit of Frankenstein, some time travel and the potential damage of meddling with the past, a ninja (!) a materialistic, seemingly selfish but actually kind hearted charter boat captain (shades of Han Solo anyone?) and a…
The Headless Eyes (1971)
Arthur (Bo Brundin) is a struggling artist who is desperate for rent money so he breaks into a woman’s home to try and get some quick cash. What he gets instead is her shoving a spoon through his eye. Now…
Metallica coming to theatres October 9th
Personally, I’m excited about this press release because back in 1986 I bought Metallica’s Master of Puppets cassette tape and learned every lyric of every song. My parents were so proud of me talking about chopping my breakfast up on…
Calling Dr. Death (1943)
Dr. Steele (Lon Chaney Jr.) is a psychiatrist married to a cheating wife who refuses to give him a divorce. He’s in love with his nurse (Patricia Morison) who loves him back. Then he blacks out one weekend and awakens…
And Now the Screaming Starts! (1973)
There was something of a vogue for horror films in Britain during the sixties and early seventies, probably because there was a market for material of this nature but censorship meant that it could not be shown on television. Hammer…
Vicious Lips (1986)
This is essentially a rock ‘n’ roll fable set in a sci-fi environment, as the title band vies for fame and fortune. A gig on a distant planet could be their ticket to the big time, but first they have…
The Stuff (1985)
The Stuff is another delightful horror film from the hand of Larry Cohen and plays out something like a meeting between Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Blob. After seeing films like It’s Alive and Q: The Winged Serpent,…
The Innkeepers (2011)
The former fancy and elegant Yankee Pedlar Inn will be closed in a couple of days to become a parking area and the employees Claire (Sara Paxton) and Luke (Pat Healy) are taking care of the hotel while the owner…
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
In “Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man”, detectives Bud Alexander (Bud Abbott) and Lou Francis (Lou Costello) have to protect a man framed for murder. This becomes proportionally easier once the man gives himself an invisibility serum. Some of…
Scanners (1981)
Scanners is a film about a group of human mutants that are able to basically make people go mad, and finally they can make their minds actually explode. Supposedly created out of the scientific work of a scientist working on…
Local Hero: Igniting A Community Movie Theater
It is the first week of December in Central Indiana. Many folks feel that Thanksgiving heralds the launch of the Christmas season, but many and I mean many would vehemently disagree with you. Many families would argue that it’s not…
The Sand (2015)
A whole bunch of students get together for big beach party where they have to turn in their phones for a Vegas rules party. They don’t want anybody recording something they shouldn’t plus this gives the writer the opportunity to…
Up from the Depths (1979)
After reading about this film for years in magazines and reference books, I finally managed to track down it down some time ago at a local Blockbusters. I honestly didn’t expect it to be good, but I had no idea…
Night of the Demons (2009)
Paying respect to a film by trying to remake it DOES NOT always pan out. This is the case with the 2009 version of Night of the Demons. Being a smaller than normal budget film and having to mediocre stars…
The Undertaker and His Pals (1966)
This very well may be the first slasher film ever made, and the really weird thing, it is also the first parody of a slasher film ever made. Therein lies a real social-historical problem: how can the film effectively creating…
Die Sister, Die! (1978)
A troubled old woman is saved from suicide by her brother and the family doctor. Her brother’s concern is purely for show though and he hires a nurse with a shady past to ‘look after’ his sister, i.e. to ensure…