Busting (1974)
Busting is a cop show encapsulated, purely episodic in structure as the two vice cop heroes team on various assorted cases, with unstable degrees of success. It’s in keeping with the refreshing realism of this period in the film’s genre,…
Kingdom of the Spiders (1977)
Spiders are very much one of the ‘horror animals’ and Kingdom of the Spiders is clearly one of the best films to be based around them! Many people seem to have a phobia of spiders – personally, I love them;…
Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Roger Corman’s indirect influence on the 70s movie renaissance is often overlooked. Many of that decade’s key players served their apprenticeships on Corman’s quickies. Directors like Coppola, Bogdanovich, Bartel and Demme, and actors like Nicholson, Hopper, Fonda, Dern, Stanton, and…
Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla II (1993)
Toho was on a role bringing back some of their famous monsters to costar with Godzilla throughout the 90s. First King Ghidorah, then Mothra, and now not one but three classic characters: Baby Godzilla, Rodan, and, of course, Mechagodzilla. What…
Street Sisters (1974)
his is really a successor to the one-man, low-budget productions of Oscar Micheaux in the 1920’s and 1930’s, rather than one of the blaxploitation movies of the 1960’s and 1970’s. Blaxploitation movies were urban. They were action movies with karate,…
Truck Turner (1974)
s blackploitation movies go, this is one of the really better ones. Hayes has great screen presence and is in fine form here as a bounty hunter, who you don’t want to push too many of his buttons. I love…
Savage Streets (1984)
Brenda (Linda Blair), along with her high school friends, feels its a good idea to steal some hoodlum’s car & total it after her deaf/mute sister walks into the middle of the road and almost gets hit by them. This…
Hangup (1974)
I must admit that it is difficult for me to realize that the great Hollywood vet director Henry Hathaway, the man who gave us THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER, and made movies since the early thirties, mostly excellent pictures,…
The Black 6 (1973)
The black six is a standard blacksploitation movie enhanced by the cast of all star football players. The black six mentioned in the title are a rough gang of bikers just back from vietnam looking for nothing but a good…
Mardi Gras Massacre (1978)
Not exactly a straight slasher as many believe but it’s surely as cheesy, and unintentionally funny as any slasher from the 80’s. “Mardi Gras Massacre” could be considered as a toned down exploitation low budget. The plot asks for brutality,…
Tobor the Great (1954)
Watch this one with child-like eyes and you’ll have a great time. Tobor (‘robot’ spelled backwards) is the invention of an elderly scientific genius who develops a robot to serve as the pilot for dangerous space flights in place of…
The Incredible Petrified World (1959)
A scientist (John Carradine) creates a diving bell that will allow him to try and get a better understanding of the ocean. On its trial run he lowers it (and several people) into the ocean but it breaks free and…
Cycle Vixens (1978)
Three young girls living in a small Colorado town decide to take a trip on their motorbikes to California “to see the ocean”. Two of the girls are sisters and go with the blessing of their widower father. The third…
The Dark Angel of Conformity
When Ronald Reagan took power, Morgan Stanley had 3,000 employees, when he left office they had 130,000. Something had changed in our society, something had profoundly changed. Risky Business is a 1983 American teen sex comedy film written and directed…
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
One of Terrence Fisher’s greatest directorial efforts certainly is this stylish, witty, thrilling adaptation of a Dennis Wheatley novel. Richard Matheson did the screenwriting honors, ad like most of what he touches, it turns to gold. This film has a…
99 Women (1969)
Given Jess Franco’s penchant for uber-strange, dream-like, over-sexed affairs, this comes off as one of his tamest and most main stream movies…as main stream as WIP flicks can be that is. The film follows follows a familiar pattern. A group…
Corridors of Blood (1958)
Long before anesthesia, operations in London hospitals were wards of screaming patients in great pain and suffering. In 1840, Dr. Thomas Bolton (Boris Karloff),a great humanitarian surgeon, tries to eliminate all the pain and suffering connected with surgery. Bolton tries…
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Partially sighted molecular biologist Dr. Alexander Thorkel (Albert Dekker) invites a team of fellow scientists to help him with his work at his laboratory deep in the Amazon jungle; within hours of their arrival, the problem that Thorkel has been…
The Strange World of Planet X (1958)
“The Strange World of Planet X” (British, 1957; usually shown as “The Cosmic Monsters” on American TV) has been one of my favorites for many years. It’s been said that films of this type don’t appeal to anyone except the…
The Bees (1978)
This film features a swarm of bees addressing the United Nations, as Angel Thompkin’s screams “You have to listen! You have to listen (sic) what the bees are trying to tell you!” I really had fun watching this, but I…