The Rebel Set (1959)
Karl Struss did the excellent photography on this film. The dark shadows and low angles add quite a bit of tension to the situation. I love the way the dark forces of greed take hold of three goof-ball beatniks(Sullivan, Lupton,…
Surf Party (1964)
With the success of American-International’s “Beach Party” movie series, it was inevitable that other studios would try to cash in on that success. Some efforts were made by major studios, while other efforts were made by independents, “Surf Party” being…
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
While we anxiously await Lesbian Vampire Killers, we can visit a Hammer classic that has loads of naturally endowed women in a finishing school. While the lesbianism that is inferred is probably just normal boarding school hi-jinks, we are able…
Amazon Roars….
At one time, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios boasted of having ″more stars than there are in the heavens″ back when Hollywood was loud and proud, and Leo the MGM Lion reigned as king of the movie universe. This week the history that…
City of the Living Dead (1980)
his is a genuinely frightening story with correct utilization of images-shock , skill edition and eerie images . Lucio Fulci’s main great success along with ¨Zombie 2¨ , is compelling directed with startling gory visual content . It’s a creepy…
Tex and the Lord of the Deep (1985)
Ranger Tex Willer (Giuliano Gemma) and his buddy Kit Carson (William Berger) are searching for 300 lost guns, a transport for the army. Mexican bandits are suspected first, but soon clues are found that a mysterious Indian cult is behind…
The Mines Of Kilamanjiaro (1986)
An American college student in 1930s Africa searches for a lost diamond mine near Mt. Kilimanjaro. He must battle Nazis who are using the mine to finance their war plans, Chinese gangsters and murderous local tribesmen. Only for fans of…
My World Dies Screaming (1958)
Terror in the haunted house resembles a William Castle horror film it has gimmicks,subliminal messages during the film.they flash images of skulls and cartoon monsters and even the word scream in blood red colors,but this movie is pretty good without…
Monster on the Campus (1958)
This movie was one of the last 50’s Sci-Fi movies from Universal coming out in 1959-same year I did. Audiences then were not as sophisticated as they are now and quicker to give a movie the benefit of the doubt….
Gorgo (1961)
A retelling of the Godzilla story in a British setting, Gorgo is a lot of fun to watch. As other reviewers have said, two fisherman come across a monster (“Gorgo”) off the coast of Ireland and decide to put it…
The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
Brilliant doctor and sculptor Dr. Georges Bonnet (Anton Diffring) is 104 years old but looks less than half his age; the secret to his youthful appearance is to periodically undergo surgery to replace one of his glands with that of…
Space Rage (1985)
A super bad dude named Grange (Michael Pare) is sent to an off Earth penal colony called Botany Bay after he commits murder and armed robbery. There we meet the warden Gov. Tovah (William Windom) who looks like Boss Hogg…
Soylent Green (1973)
It is the year 2022 and nothing has changed even if things have gotten worse. New York City has become even more overpopulated and is just yet another city heaving in its own filth with countless “have-nots” fighting over sparse…
First Spaceship on Venus (1960)
An artifact from the planet Venus is found buried on Earth, and scientists learn that the object is the log of an alien spacecraft which crashed. After attempts to contact the Venusian civilization are unsuccessful, a multi-national (and multi-racial) flight…
The 27th Day (1957)
An alien ship picks up five different people from the five super powers of the world. There he gives each a device that only they can open. Each device contains three vials that have the power to annihilate every human…
Brutal Boxer (1972)
There are only three reasons to watch this movie. First, you were fooled into thinking Jackie Chan was the star. Nope. That’s him sliding across the floor on his belly in the restaurant fight. Hi Jackie, good-bye Jackie. The second…
Just One Thing….
One of the things I think movie going suffers from is the idea of absolutes. People make wide brushed statements that really have little bearing on why people go to movies. They also make decisions based on their often faulty…
Redneck Miller (1976)
DJ Miller is a Schlitz-swilling, hard-living early morning country music disc jockey in the Southern U.S. His motorcycle, a one-of-a-kind “chopper,” is stolen by someone and used to steal a shipment of drugs from Supermac, a blaxploitation refugee usually aided…
Black Mama White Mama (1973)
“Black Mama, White Mama” has something for everyone. Everyone, that is, who walks directly to the “Action/Adventure” section upon entering their local video store. First, it starts out in a woman’s prison in some random South/Central American country. Second, the…
Dynamite Brothers (1974)
This is a very cheap 1973 actioner which pits a black man (Brown) with an Asian man (Tang) who is searching for his brother in LA. The two spend a period cuffed together and dealing with racist morons before they…