Live Fast, Die Young (1958)
Wild and untamed youth of the 1950’s USA is the story in this movie about young Jill Winters, Norma Eberhardt, who leaves home and school for the big time in a life of petty crime. That lifestyle leads to her…
Requiem for a Vampire (1971)
Erotic-horror from French master Jean Rollin about two fugitive girls (Marie-Pierre Castel, Mireille Dargent) who are on the run from the law and end up in a creepy castle where many young women are chained in the basement. The girl’s…
20,000 Eyes (1961)
Dan (Gene Nelson) is a fast-talking and conscience-impaired investment counselor. He always seems to have a scheme up his sleeves and this appears to finally coming home to roost when he plays fast and easy with a mobster’s money! The…
The Immoral Three (1975)
Three sexy women, raised separately as orphans, are summoned to a funeral, where they learn that they are in fact sisters and that the dead woman was their mother. The latter had been a secret agent the notorious Double…
The Devil Witch (1973)
Valentina is a photographer who, one night, has a run-in with a mysterious woman named Baba Yaga. Baba Yaga asks to borrow something from Valentina, promising to give it back the next morning. (I have no idea what the thing…
Burn, Witch, Burn (1962)
A demonstration that a lot can be achieved on a small budget by imaginative filmmakers. The intensity of this movie took me by surprise. I had expected something more plodding, along the lines of Hammer fare from the same period….
Scarecrows (1988)
SCARECROWS is one of those films that never seemed to get much recognition when it came out, yet it is one of the best horror movies ever made!! A group of bank-robbers must land their hijacked cargo plane in a…
Cannibals in the Streets (1980)
Maybe the fact that this particular cannibal movie wasn’t directed by one of the usual suspects (Lenzi, Deodato) is what makes it so tolerable. Saxon plays a soldier who goes back to some south Asian country to rescue his POW…
Blood Orgy of the She-Devils (1973)
I have to admit, this movie was not as bad as I thought it would’ve been. Now, it’s no Dario Argento, but there is this underlying dark theme of witchcraft, occult, the black arts and the low budget quality is…
Coonskin (1975)
Coonskin is a very rare treat for blaxploitation film goers alike. First of all, if you can’t get past the title of the film, you probably won’t make it past the five minute mark on the movie. This is an…
Concrete Blondes (2013)
Screwball comedies have been around for decades. There are many good ones, and, it stands to reason, that there are as many (if not more) bad ones. I’m not particular fond of them; I don’t dislike them, but I do…
RUSH: Cinema Strangiato 2019
While growing up on B Movies in the 70s and 80s there was a Canadian band emerging and packing venues throughout Canada and the U.S. After four decades it appears the band is retiring, but there’s still a chance to…
Slip Sliding Away: The Loss Of An American Movie Audience
Business is down. No matter what NATO proclaims, the box office globally is on a downward slope. This week I spoke to a couple of operators, both large and small. They all told me that the box office was hovering…
Riot on Sunset Strip (1967)
Hard to find but worth the search! This movie was filmed in 1967 and could easily have been made by Dragnet’s own Jack Webb. The over-the-top hippiness of this movie is what makes it a classic. If you have ever…
Hot Rods to Hell (1967)
Given a title like this, it’s a cinch no one will take this road movie seriously except for a few of us who hate seeing a decent family being harrassed by some mindless hot rodders intent on making dangerous moves…
The Bride and the Beast (1958)
Laura Carson (Charlotte Austin) has just married big game hunter Dan Fuller (Lance Fuller.) On her wedding night she finds herself strangely attracted to Spanky, a gorilla gone bad that Dan keeps locked up in a basement cage. Before you…
Women Without Men (1956)
In their quest to nab a spy for the Soviet Bloc named “Nick Randall” (Jim Davis), the American State Department decides to follow his girlfriend, “Angela Booth” (Beverly Michaels) to a secret rendezvous the two had planned a few months…
City Across the River (1949)
hile the noir cycle sensed, in its oblique way, most of the tremors affecting America in the post-war years, one subject that remains conspicuous in its absence is juvenile delinquency. Though alienated youth cropped up now and again in…
Black Caesar (1973)
In 1953, the delinquent teenager Tommy is raised in Harlem in a period of a racist American society. When he grows up, he becomes a hitman (Fred Williamson) working for the Italian mafia. When he steals accounting ledgers from the…