La Morte Vivante
Jean Rollin was a legendary French filmmaker who released dozens of fantasy and horror films over a career spanning more than five decades. Many of his earlier films dealt with vampires, but 1982’s La Morte Vivante (The Living Dead Girl)…
Tony Scott R.I.P.
From the Geeks Of Doom We at Geeks of Doom and everyone around the cinema community and the globe are still stunned by the news last week that film director Tony Scott, responsible for so many of the fun, in…
Hitchcock: Foreign Correspondent
It’s always the same when you dilly dally in getting up to the buffet at a social function – most of the luxury dishes are gone. So being late to this party it was no surprise my favourite fare was…
Always Wanted To Be An Action Star
Jason Statham was always determined to be the ”next action hero”. The ‘Expendables’ 2 star dated model-and-actress Kelly Brook for seven years until 2004 and she was happy to move to Hollywood with him because she always knew he would…
B-Movie Director Is Making An Earth Defense Force 2017 Commercial
OK, so Earth Defense Force isn’t getting the Onechanbara treatment with a feature film, but it will get a live action… umm… commercial for Earth Defense Force 3 Portable. Minoru Kawasaki the B-movie director behind Executive Koala and The Calamari…
B-List Movie Cars
A-list movie cars come in three categories: First are the glamorous cars like James Bond’s silver 1964 Aston Martin DB5; next are over-the-top custom creations like the Batmobile; and finally, the decidedly unglamorous cars that nevertheless grabbed a ton of…
Q
Q is a fun, low budget thriller from B-movie auteur Larry Cohen. The premise is that an ancient Mexican God Quetzalcoatl has taken the form of a giant flying serpent and is living somewhere in New York, feasting on unsuspecting…
MSTK3000:Yelling At The Screen Makes Us Smarter
Is there anything worse than one guy talking to a movie screen, ruining the viewing experience for everyone? Get a group of people together talking to the screen, however, and suddenly you have something like a party — a brand-new…
Roger: Why the Internet’s the Next Home for Indie Film
Roger Corman should need no introduction. Without him, independent film in the United States would be an entirely different entity, if it would even exist at all. As a director, he was responsible for a classic series of Edgar Allan…
B-MOVIE CELEBRATION’ Hits Indiana Sept 14-16
Often the term “B-Movie” is thought carry an attitude of derision and scorn. Low budget “B” or genre filmmaking is considered to be second class or in some way inferior to Hollywood’s slick corporate product. We at the B-Movie Celebration…
The Iron Sky Ride
Following in the footsteps of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, here’s another comedic reimagining of the history of Nazi Germany. But where Tarantino’s Nazi-hunter lark stayed relatively grounded in reality, Finnish director Timo Vuorensola goes off the deep end with a…
Hollywood’s 3 Bs for fall: Bond, Bella, Bilbo
The B-list rules Hollywood’s fall and holiday movie season: Bond, Bella and Bilbo. Daniel Craig is back as James Bond in “Skyfall,” the super-spy’s first adventure in four years, one of the longest 007 hiatuses in the franchise’s 50-year history….
Down And Funny
”THIS film has been classified as vulgar comedy,” runs a mock-official disclaimer at the start of Vulgaria, the latest from prolific Hong Kong director Pang Ho-Cheung. Shortly after, prudish viewers are allowed 10 seconds to leave the cinema – which…
Hit And Run
This slapstick road movie feels tossed off by people on a raunchy bender. I mean that as a good thing. The trouble with Hit & Run is that it can’t sustain its trippy effervescence. The business of getting the plot…
Sam Fuller At The Aero
The Naked Kiss (1964) is the prototypical Sam Fuller film, from the leering paperback title to the in medias res opening that pounces like a tawdry B-movie trailer, with Constance Towers’s call-girl Kelly swinging her high-heel shoe at her pimp…
Sam Fuller At The Aero
The Naked Kiss (1964) is the prototypical Sam Fuller film, from the leering paperback title to the in medias res opening that pounces like a tawdry B-movie trailer, with Constance Towers’s call-girl Kelly swinging her high-heel shoe at her pimp…
Daleks Master Plan
Is Sara Kingdom officially a companion? Is the Christmas Day episode – in which Hartnell’s Doctor breaks the fourth wall for the first time in the series by raising a glass to everyone back home – as rubbish as it…
Learn To Love Jaws:The Revenge
from Den of Geek t’s a testament to the lasting power of Steven Spielberg’s Jaws that, 37 years on from its first release, you can still walk into a cinema somewhere and watch it. The American theatre chain Cinemark will…
Porkchop 3D
Seriously I love the title for all its b-movie awesomeness. Below you can checkout the trailer for Porkchop 3D an indie production made with $3k. When a group of Porkchop’s would-be victims return for revenge, they never suspect the pig-masked…
Rocketeer Re-Boot
One of the movies of my childhood that I hold close to my heart is The Rocketeer. Starring Bill Campbell as a young race pilot who stumbles upon a stolen prototype jetpack, he fights the bad guy (Timothy Dalton) and…