The Tentacles Claw – Coming to DVD and select theatres
At the 2012 B Movie Celebration The Tentacles Claw made its U.S. premiere and the audience enjoyed this sci-fi comedy film from start to finish. Filmmakers Michael Rigler and Tara Manuel were at the premiere for a Q&A following the…
Night Of The Creeps
Zombies, alien invasion, comedy, and enough exploding heads to keep you entertained for hours; yes Night of the Creeps has it all and is tied together in a nice 1980’s package.The plot is fairly straight forward and just what…
Amenia drive-in was as charming as any movie
On June 6, 1933, New Jersey businessman Richard M. Hollingshead opened the very first drive-in movie theater in the country. Located in his hometown of Camden, the first feature film screened was the comedy “Wives Beware”starring actor Adolphe Menjou. As…
Severn Darden
Forty years ago, Darden drove from New York to Chicago in his Rolls-Royce Phantom One to take up his first job with the Compass, borrowing the money to buy the petrol from the actress Diane Cilento. The Compass players at…
Luvin Them Zombies
What is it with the undead? While other monsters come and go, the zombie never seems to go out of style, exploding into the Hollywood mainstream every few years but otherwise lumbering on in B-movies, constantly mutating to reflect our…
Boris Karloff (1887–1969)
Along with fellow actors Lon Chaney, Bela Lugosi and Vincent Price, Boris Karloff is recognized as one of the true icons of horror cinema, and the actor most closely identified with the general public’s perception of the “monster” from the…
Sole Survivor
Writer / director / editor Thom Eberhardts’ feature directing debut is a nicely realized, grim and spooky little shocker worth viewing for horror aficionados hoping to find good lesser known films from decades past. It’s got plenty of atmosphere, a…
Biohazard: The Alien Force (1995)
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient “baby” beings hunting down…
The Body Snatcher (1945)
One can’t help admiring Val Lewton and his crew at RKO, working on tiny budgets, but producing miniature gems. It’s like painting a masterpiece on the head of a pin. Robert Wise was his director here but the credit goes…
The Terror (1963)
Jack Nicholson is wandering Napoleonic officer Andre, who finds a lovely female named Helene(Sandra Knight)who has the uncanny ability to vanish as she so wishes. He follows her into a pounding ocean, only to awaken in the bed of a…
Dick Shawn
An unusual comic performer, Dick Shawn appeared on film, TV and the stage in such hits as The Producers and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. One of his most memorable roles came in 1963 as…
Fearless Frank (1967)
Starring Jon Voight and chubby comic actor Severin Darden, FEARLESS FRANK is an obscure pop morality play gone wrong. Receiving somewhat limited release, it quickly gravitated to infrequent television showings, via American-International Television. The story concerns Darden’s Doctor, who creates…
Berlin Express (1948)
This spy thriller which is set in the period just after the end of World War 11, depicts in documentary-style, the level of devastation, turmoil and political intrigue that was prevalent in Germany at that time. An assassination, a kidnapping…
The Leopard Man
Dark and creepy film based on the Cornell Wollrich novel “Black Alibi” about a leopard on the loose in the desert and towns of New Mexico. With deep and disturbing psychological overtones that strikes more fear in the hearts of…
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Remake
If you were a teenager of the ’90s like myself, then you likely have a spot in heart for I Know What You Did Last Summer, the horror movie your entire high school likely turned out to see, starring four young…
The Raven (1963)
This movie is loosely based around the famous Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name. However, I don’t think this is what the great literary genius had in mind when he originally wrote it; as Corman has turned the…
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
If there is such a thing as an epic comedy, a sprawling lavish technocolor landscape of gargantuan humor, It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is it. It is truly an American comedy, a junket along the California coast replete…
Dirty Little Billy (1972)
Watch Dirty Little Billy back-to-back with Young Guns for a testimonial to how little faith you can place in Hollywood to give you an accurate portrayal of history. In the latter we have William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, portrayed…
Way… Way Out (1966)
Jerry Lewis does less of his wacky character here, and tries playing it straight, not for gonzo laughs. He’s nearly laid back compared to Robert Morley’s curtain rattling performance as Jerry and Connie Stevens “first married couple on the moon….
Our Friend Jon – Documentary
Making films was Jonathan Hernandez’s dream and he pursued that dream while living with Sickle Cell Anemia. Jon along with his three friends, who also have difficult challenges in their lives, was going to make a short film. As Jon…