Betrayed Women (1955)
Back in the 1950s, following the movie “Caged”, there were a whole bunch of so-called ‘women in prison films’. Initially, they were films featuring a lot of violence and a whole lotta cat fights, though into the 60s and 70s…
Hot Rods to Hell (1967)
This movie continues to amuse me although I’ve seen it countless times. The straitlaced family plunged into a world of “hot rodding” teenagers “looking for kicks”…it can’t get much better than this. Particularly fun are the overly dramatic performances of…
Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
It is difficult to understand how some criticize a movie because its title doesn’t make sense (like most science fiction titles?), or because the acting was poor (look at the box and read the credits before buying). The title of…
The Woman Hunt (1972)
Yet another adaptation of the The Most Dangerous Game (1932) this is more in line with the same years The Suckers (1972) in it’s attempt to spice things up a tad. Telling the story of a slave ring that captures…
The Heart Of The Movies
It is a Friday afternoon, it’s fall in the Mid West. The air is crisp and the wind blows with a gentle reminder of summer. The ground in the morning is starting to have a soft mantle of frost in…
Breaker Beauties (1977)
Made by a talented guy from mainstream entertainment dabbling in porn, BREAKER BEAUTIES would fall in the good ole boy genre of the ’70s if it weren’t XXX (and thus pigeonholed as Adult). It’s entertaining if unexceptional. R. Bolla (his…
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
This is not a fun film. This is not an easy film to watch. But this is certainly not a film without merit. The first half of this film takes the audience through a terrible descent into a hell most…
Fight for Your Life (1977)
This is a pretty nasty piece of work that is nevertheless well made and effective. Race, rape and revenge but much more too when a modest God fearing black family are set upon by three escaped convicts who don’t seem…
Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)
COTTON COMES TO HARLEM is the adaptation of Chester Himes’ 1965 novel of the same title and stars Godfrey Cambridge and Raymond St. Jacques as his two Harlem police detectives “Gravedigger” Jones and “Coffin” Ed Johnson respectively. Their motto: “[We]…
Groupers – A dark comedy coming soon
A grad student kidnaps two homophobic high-school bullies to use as her subjects in an experiment performed at the bottom of an empty swimming pool. Global Digital Releasing sets the theatrical release for the dark comedy Groupers for Friday, September…
Catastrophe (1977)
Why is it that in the 70’s they even underscored DOCU-Drama’s with that campy musical underscore???? UGH! Having said that, this film contains what I consider to be the BEST coverage of several disasters, namely, the Hindenburg. I have watched…
Cannibal Girls (1973)
David Cronenberg said he was the first man to make a horror film in Canada, but I think this was made first. (unless it wasn’t considered a horror film). SCTV’s Eugene Levy and Andrea Martin star as couple who goes…
Cemetery Man (1994)
Dellamorte Dellamore (aka Cemetery Man) is one of those ingenious, creative movies that appear once in a blue moon and is virtually unrecognized. It tells the story of a cemetery caretaker’s troubled life and descent into madness, while at the…
Blood Freak (1972)
Where does one even begin when trying to describe this insane film? Chances are the jargon “turkey monster”, “christian”, “druggie”, “inept scientists”, etc. will come up in the process, but I think the word that best sums it up is…
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
Under-rated, unduly over-shadowed, and quite rightly the most notoriously scary and deadly place (billed by American author, Richard Matheson, as “The Mt. Everest of all Haunted Houses” in his novel on which this British interpretation is based). The Author, in…
End of the World (1977)
“A scientist discovers signals from space that appear to carry information concerning a series of seemingly unrelated natural disasters, occurring across the globe. Hoping to discover the source of these signals and who’s behind them, the scientist and his wife…
The Last Great Showman
At one time the motion picture business was filled with exuberant and dynamic individuals. In small towns, the two most important men in the community were the mayor and the owner/manager of the local movie theater. The mayor could get…
The Van (1977)
The cult of personality has elevated the status of Roger Corman, Sam Arkoff, Lloyd Kaufman etc. as kings of the B’s. Because the folks at Crown International were so key, they haven’t been elevated to the status they richly deserve….
Blood and Lace (1971)
This is a weird and rather gruesome horror film from the early 1970’s. Melody Patterson’s mother, a prostitute, is murdered in bed with one of her customers. Melody is sent to live at an orphanage run by the great Gloria…
Raw Meat (1972)
One of the most affecting films I have ever seen, Death Line is one of the most intelligent and bold horror films ever made. The opening scenes of a wealthy and dour civil servant stalking clip joints in Soho sets…