Teenage Cave Man
This is a strange caveman movie, as the men are mostly clean-shaven or sport very well-trimmed beards and look nothing like we’d assume cave people would look like. The worst example is young Robert Vaughn, who looks almost exactly like…
Five Quick Questions with Billy “Bloody Bill” Pon
After creating a fake trailer in 2 days and placing high in the 2007 Grindhouse Fake Film Trailer Contest, Billy “Bloody Bill” Pon set out to make a feature film. He’s always been involved with scaring people as he’s the…
Deathdream
Bob Clark was such a fantastic and visionary filmmaker during the early 70’s and directed no less than three very important and hugely influential horror movies in a row. Unfortunately, he reverted to making lame & mainstream comedies during the…
Grab a Piece Of That Old Sharknado
An audience member wearing a shark themed hat blows up an inflatable shark while attending a midnight screening of the U.S. cable television network Syfy film “Sharknado” in New York, August 2, 2013. The campy, low-budget TV disaster movie about…
Bug (2006)
It’s difficult to discuss William Friedkin’s “Bug” because, like his 1973 classic “The Exorcist” before it, it relies on atmosphere, not events. One can only go so far in stating the synopsis because it is a film that demands you…
Are You Ready for an ‘MST3K’ Comeback?
Wired ran an amazing oral history of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” and almost lost in its depths was a quote from creator Joel Hodgson, who mentioned the possibility of the B-movie-mocking classic coming back in an online format with a…
Review:Zombeavers
If Sam Raimi and Jim Henson had dreamed up a movie together … well, it wouldn’t have looked very much like “Zombeavers,” though you can tell that’s the target director Jordan Rubin was vaguely aiming for with his well-meaning but…
Not Quite Hollywood
Why!? What!? How!? Where!? For 100 astounding minutes the breakneck documentary Not Quite Hollywood mounts a staggering assault on your common sense. Tracing the rise and fall of Australian exploitation cinema from the early-70s to the late-80s, Mark Hartley’s…
Razorback
Razorback is one of the best Australian horror/action movies ever made. The direction is dazzling, the cinematography is truly remarkable and the cast is brimming with quality actors. Mysteriously, no one seems to care. There is no denying that Razorback’s…
Punching A Hole In The Dam
As a young man and an aspiring filmmaker, I had always thought that my talent (which has diminished with age) and hard work would naturally lead me to the heady life as a Hollywood based filmmaker. I of course was…
Agency
A lot happened to Lee Majors following the cancelation of his hit series The Six Million Dollar Man. Unhappy with the strong-arm tactics he used to get a raise for the show’s fifth (and final) season, Hollywood studio execs had…
The Angry Red Planet
An unusual movie in many ways. Firstly; it’s back to front. We see the rocket return before we know what’s been going on. That’s not quite an original idea; the same approach was taken by Nigel Kneale to his ‘Quatermass…
Poseidon Rex’ falls short of ‘Sharknado
The natural-disaster B-movie “Poseidon Rex” would fit perfectly in the SyFy programming lineup had it boasted the likes of Tara Reid and John Heard of “Sharknado.” With a cast of unknowns, the most logical distribution avenue for it would be…
Evil bong hits
In Gingerdead Man Versus Evil Bong, right out of the gates we’re met with three sets of titties swarming around the Gingerdead Man in an erotic frenzy. Gingerdead Man is a serial killer doomed to inhabit the cookie body through…
The Drive-In Bucket List
Couched by the truth that Tuesday’s local forecast included that unendurable four letter word, SNOW, there’s no denying that spring has sprung, and that summer is a maniacal machete man hiding in the woods, preparing for his chance to pounce….
The Apple
A 1980 musical set in the far-flung future of 1994! At a song competition festival, a boyfriend/girlfriend team, Alfie (George Gilmour) and Bibi (Catherine Mary Stewart!), have their song ruined by the evil Mr. Boogalow. His song wins and he…
Ginger Snaps: Unleashed
Released with hardly any publicity, Ginger Snaps came and went from Canadian theatres in 2000. Like Ginger in the film, time proved to give the Snaps a life of its own, as it quickly found a new life on video. Not only…
Goosebumps for Godzilla
Godzilla director Gareth Edwards has teased that the film will give the audience the shivers. The Monsters filmmaker is offering up his “serious” big-screen version of the 1954 Japanese science-fiction movie, which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen….
Def-Con 4
Canadian critics can endlessly debate the positive and negative effects tax shelters had on Canadian film in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While most agree that they were largely detrimental, there is no denying that this influx of private…
Empire of Ash
It’s the year 2050, and the world has become a wasteland after a fatal virus has ravaged the human race. Those few that have survived are forced to fight against a powerful warrior empire that seeks total control over the…