The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
You can’t even begin to describe how essential (and quintessential) this legendary Hammer-movie in fact is! It was the unexpected success of this movie that single-handedly caused the horror-boom all over Europe! If this adaptation from Nigel Kneale’s play hadn’t…
Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers (1988)
All B-movie fans should see this movie. Even if you can’t make it through the whole thing, the best scene is in the first ten minutes. Michelle Bauer strips while dancing to Elvis. She gets her room ready for some…
Five Quick Questions with Michael Berryman
All I ask is that you let people know that George Pal ‘Discovered you!’– George Pal That’s what Michael Berryman was told one night years ago by legendary filmmaker George Pal. Shortly after that night, he began his acting…
Bong Joon-ho A Fine Korean Import
One of the abiding final shots in cinema is the crumbling face of Song Kang-ho in the epilogue of Memories of Murder, his impotent, accusatory stare through the lens, at us and one special other (I will explain). It’s a…
Waxworks Records sets Friday the 13th and Chopping Mall release dates!
Waxwork Records, the label responsible for releasing beautifully packaged scores for Rosemary’s Baby, Creepshow, Day of the Dead, Re-Animator, have announced two new releases today, both terribly exciting. First up, FRIDAY THE 13th. (See our last article HERE.) A release…
SyFy’s ‘Dominion’
Dominion,” premiering Thursday night, is strictly cheapo-apocalypto, but it’s one of the more interesting efforts from the SyFy network lately, which, despite its hopeful marketing slogan (“Imagine Greater”), keeps churning out shows that are resiliently mediocre — beyond even the…
Blue Ruin
“Blue Ruin” is a stunner, a violence-filled indie film that veers close to the Coen brothers’ early masterpiece “Blood Simple” and brings to mind the B-movie convention-twisting work of Quentin Tarantino as it adds fresh detail and a thoroughly convincing…
Killer Tomatoes Strike Back-Screening
When Good Vegetables Go Bad” is the tag line for the third movie in a series of four films on killer tomatoes. The 1991 horror-comedy “B” movie “Killer Tomatoes Strike Back” is scheduled to be screened at the Ware Center,…
The Dreaded Mongolian Death Worm
Mongolia’s Gobi is one of the world’s greatest deserts, covering over 500,000 sq. miles. Unlike many deserts, there are very few sand dunes here. Instead, it is shaped by large, foreboding expanses of barren, sometimes rocky plains and outcroppings.The climate…
Space Raiders
This one hardly compares to the space adventures of its time. Those being Star Wars and Star Trek. And while I am no fan of Star Trek, I recognize that this film pales in comparison to the series Trekkies ooze…
Slave Girls On The Moon
Filmmaker and college student Joshua Kennedy’s newest film Slave Girls on the Moon will premiere at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at Cine El Rey. Kennedy, who has long been a B-movie enthusiast, wrote the film about a woman shot…
Coherence
All of Coherence’s superficial elements don’t exactly entice, lest you’re an astrophysicist whose idea of Friday night ratchetness involves Merlot, finely cut cheese, and stimulating conversation. On its surface, the indie film (opening in limited theaters today) is about eight…
Fillion Does Marvel
Today is the day, fellow fanboys! Nathan Fillion, our golden Captain of Firefly fame, has finally joined Marvel Studios in a big BIG way. Obvious spoilers below. According to a mighty internet sleuth, Nathan Fillion will play Richard Rider in…
Mandingo
I just saw this film on the big screen (the only surviving 35mm print in the world). I had never seen it on video, so seeing it in a crowded theater was my first experience with the film. As a…
‘All Cheerleaders Die,’
Low-budget filmmakers Lucky McKee and Chris Sivertson have become known for making female-centric horror movies, and that continues with “All Cheerleaders Die,” in which a group of high-school pom-pom shakers returns from the dead to take revenge on some particularly…
Doing The Resurrection Shuffle
Due out this fall is Polyscope’s horror film Resurrection about a newly married couple and a struggling college student on his way home for Easter and are met by a path of madness caused by genetically modified crops. Four years…
Dinocroc
Roger Corman’s DINOCROC is a true b-movie in the grand tradition of atomic age monster movies. And make no mistake about it; this is an old-fashioned creature feature and not a typical nature gone amok/killer animal movie. The Dinocroc may…
Candy Stripe Nurses
I was originally not planning to say much about this movie, pro or con, except to tell you what my only reason was for wanting to see it — which I’ll come back to later. My thinking was that it…
Richard Lester
When he was born in Philadelphia on Jan. 19, 1932, his mother named him Richard. Later, as a TV director in London, he was given the nickname Dick, which he tolerated until the mid-’70s, when he insisted on returning to…
Heavy Metal Movies
When a cult cinema guide begins with a dedication to Danny Peary, you know its heart is in the right place. Peary’s venerated Cult Movies books were many b-movie fans’ entryway into the realm of weird cinema, Heavy Metal Movies…