Puppet Master: The Littlest Reich (2018)
I’ve seen at least a little of every movie in Charles Band’s incredibly long running franchise. The fact of the matter is that really only the first two movies were any good and everything after that ranged from barely watchable…
Silent Running (1972)
I remember first seeing this film on television I think in 1973 and being mesmerized by it. Even though I found the the premise to be absurd (more on that below), the story and movie triumphs regardless. This is flim…
Tentacles (1977)
When people start disappearing in a small seaside resort town, Ned Turner (John Huston), a newspaper reporter, becomes suspicious that is has something to do with an underwater construction project being conducted by Trojan, a company run by Mr. Whitehead…
Banana Joe (1982)
Banana Joe(Bud Spencer) is a corpulent and kind illiterate living on a tropical island in the Caribe. He trades bananas when a mobster named Torsillo wishes to take his commerce. Then , for first time in his existence, he goes…
Saving Movie Going , MidWest Style
The Mid West is really an interesting place. On the surface it can seem to be a rigid, conservative place with little empathy for alternative views or culture. Below the surface is a completely different story. It is a tapestry…
It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955)
In the 1950s and 60s, there were practically zillions of giant radioactive monster films. Giant shrews, ants, spiders, dinosaurs and whatnot scared audiences and were immensely popular throughout the world. For example, THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS (1953) clearly led…
The Disco Exorcist (2011)
If you only look at the title and you have seen the trailer then you know that you are in a treat of exploitation. By saying that I mean, if you think that you are going to see a horror…
The Gingerdead Man (2005)
What is it that makes this Charles Brand tick away? This guy is like the not-quite-as-talented step-son of Roger Corman, producing hundreds of films, very few of them people actually probably legitimately like with a straight face (let alone those…
Sssssss (1973)
SSSSSSS is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination; it is rather heavily flawed and definitely very silly, but it’s also rather original, very inventive and certainly makes for an interesting watch, so the bad reputation is…
My Boyfriend’s Back (1993)
My Boyfriend’s Back’ is both great as a political analogy (dealing with generic prejudice and social mistrust) as well as a hard mockery of standard teen fare. The story is that of a teen who is dying to go to…
Matango (1963)
MATANGO, directed by Ishiro Honda, is an exceptionally beautiful fantasy film from the mighty Toho. Bastardized for its American release, badly dubbed, retitled (“Attack of the Mushroom People”) and afforded very little respect, its recent re-emergence as a special edition…
Alligator (1980)
The best Corman monster flick Roger never made. This great B-movie unspools like a Sergio Leone revenge tale. Big mean Daddy flushes daughter’s baby gator, Ramon, down the toilet. Sixteen years later, Ramon has grown up to be a 36-foot…
The Brother from Another Planet (1984)
This is a very strange film to watch, but easy to do so despite the fact that the plot is only added to near the end of the film with the men in black. It’s no masterpiece at all, not…
Lone Star (1996)
An entrancing yarn that takes place in a small, quiet Texas border town where the memories of two former lawmen, the crooked Charlie Wade (Kris Kristofferson) and the legendary Buddy Deeds (Matthew McConaughey) are slowly resurrected when the remains of…
Raiders of the Living Dead (1986)
“Raiders of the Living Dead” is a low-budget zombie rip-off that is inexplicably and consistently interesting; if nothing else, it has imagination and innovation on its side. A reporter and his partner scope out an ominous locale in the dead…
The Glove (1979)
This movie is a classic example of 1970’s unintentional hilarity. John Saxon plays bounty hunter Sam Kellogg. He is financially down on his luck and is trying to get custody of his young daughter from his estranged wife. Rosie Grier…
Maniac (1980)
MANIAC contains some of the most realistic and unrestrained gore fx I’ve seen; possibly THE best up until the time of its release. Anyone who says that horror film make-up men (and women) don’t deserve to be called artists is…
The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
Robert Jannuci,Luca Venantini, Venantino Venantini, Alicia Moro (two stars are from CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (I wonder what Luca is doing these days, probably a lawyer or something, like Bela Lugosi Jr. or David Hennessey there kid from dark…
Tortured (2008)
Let us see what we shall see in this film- Two hit men go on this incredible rampage and know that the police are just about to arrest them, Why not get a hostage and that will fix everything. One…
From the Shadows (2009)
From The Shadows is also available as Naked Fear 3. By now we all know that Naked Fear 2 was as boring as hell and I was a bit afraid to watch part 3. It was better then part 2…