A Reason For Going To The Movies
Many folks are grabbing onto the dark line of thought that movie theaters are doomed. It’s an easy path to take and frankly, you can interpret the data in a way to draw a conclusion that movie theaters have been…
First Man Into Space (1959)
First Man Into Space has its low budget limitations, but it’s story is a corker. It’s one of the few 50s science fiction stories that question non-atomic technology: how far sure man go? What are the consequences of his thirst…
Mysterious Doctor Satan (1940)
In this republic serial,a mad doctor called doctor satan(edward cianelli) plot’s to dominate the world with an army of huge robots!,but only one man can stop this mad plot,the copperhead(robert wilcox(david sharp as the copperhead stunt double)!.when a governer is…
Ginger (1971)
This film is the first of a 3-film series, and is the worst of the 3, mainly because the other two films have the benefit of a higher budget due to profits from the first film. In this series-opener, our…
Don’t Move (2013)
A low-budget independent film with some spectacular production standards and a well crafted concept. Well written, well produced and well executed. This is a top quality short movie with some production value and a very well directed mini-plot. The 13…
The Stabilizer (1986)
What’s the most violent movie of all time? Rambo III? Commando? Robocop? Add these three very violent together, and you still won’t equal the carnage in The Stabilizer, the wildest, silliest, craziest action movie I have ever seen. For one…
The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)
The Mini-Skirt Mob – sounds like the coolest girl punk band you ain’t heard of, or just another AIP biker movie. It’s the latter. This isn’t that terrible, one guesses. No, it’s knowable: this is a gosh-darn B-movie if I…
Spy in the Sky! (1958)
1958’s “Spy in the Sky!” was clearly inspired by the launching of Sputnik, but was beaten to the screen by Roger Corman’s “War of the Satellites.” A little seen and rather ordinary spy thriller with no sci fi elements, starring…
The Mysterians (1957)
There’s something endearing about this movie. The plot is good, casting is good (with so many pretty faces, no wonder the Mystery guys wanted to come to earth), and even the score (by Akira Ifukube) remains in your head long…
Frightmare (1983)
Frightmare obviously will never win an academy award, but it is something that most low-cost horror movies aren’t–scary. The star, an aging horror film actor, gets posthumous revenge on those who decide to kidnap his corpse. The sequences of their…
The Violators (1957)
“The Violators” is a very frustrating film to watch. One one hand, the basic idea of Arthur O’Connell’s character is excellent…and O’Connell is wonderful. It also has a nice message about a man who has faith in people. But on…
The Manhandlers (1974)
I did not know anything about the movie and all the actors are unknown. Except Rosalind Miles who was in “Shaft’s Big Score!”(1972) plus one episode of “Columbo”, one of “Baretta” and one of “Starsky and Hutch”. Seeing the title…
The Terrornauts (1967)
OK, I am a big Amicus fan and for years, I searched for this film, it was almost like the ‘Holy Grail’ for me, as far as Amicus films went. Finally, I received a copy of this film and let…
Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory (1961)
This is, as you might expect, a movie about a werewolf in a girl’s dormitory (although technically the werewolf mostly hangs around in a forest outside the girl’s dormitory). The “girls” actually look to be about twenty-five on average and…
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
One of those unusual westerns with two women as the central characters… such as in “Johnny Guitar” and “Jubilee Trail,” among others. During the Civil War in a town run by ruthless people, bad Kate has it in for darling…
Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave (1976)
The movie opens on the tombstone of Bruce Lee, which is struck by lightening causing the dead start to bust up through the dirt. From here “Bruce Lee” (Bruce K.L. Lea) seeks revenge on his former trainer who has been…
Chamber of Horrors (1966)
Borrowing a page from the playbook of producers like William Castle, Al Adamson, Nicholson and Arkoff at AIP and the like, this was a lot of fun for me as a kid with the hokey gimmicks of the “Fear Flasher”…
Breaking Through The Darkness
There is something shifting in this business, a realization is emerging. The realization is that at the core of any recovery is one word, community. This afternoon I received a phone call from Buck Kolkmeyer. Buck is a great cheerleader…
Cheering Section (1977)
This film recently appeared on a DVD with “King Frat”. The latter movie is much more of a “cult” film, but the two are actually very similar–“King Frat” is a shameless ripoff of “Animal House” at a small fraction of…
Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974)
On the video nasties list as simply The Living Dead (it has several other titles), I watched a version called Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, it is pretty difficult to see why this was on the list to begin with. Yes…