The Cannon Fodder: Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus
Menahem Golan’s death in Tel Aviv last August at the age of 85 was cause for mourning, but also nostalgia. For those who remember run-down movie palaces with enormous marquees, Golan and first cousin Yoram Globus ruled the 1970s and…
Death Spa
“Death Spa” was released in 1990 and immediately relegated to video store shelves. Over time the film developed a small but loyal fan base, mainly due to the cover art. The film has been recently undergoing a small renaissance with…
The Son Of Morricone: Danielle Luppi
You have long been influenced by soundtracks, especially Italian ones, since you were born and brought up there. What are your earliest memories of experiencing the music that you are now recreating? I was born in ’72, so until the…
TerrorVision (1986)
TERRORVISION is a very peculiar horror-comedy that has the word “camp” labeled all over it. This fairy tale tells about a sloppy alien puppet monster who, presumably by accident, enters Planet Earth via a TV satellite dish. This enormous monster…
Frankenhooker (1990)
Frank Henenlotter’s Frankenhooker (1990) is a funny horror comedy starring James Lorinz as Jeffrey Franken, a young man who is extremely interested in medical studies and becoming a doctor. He makes his weird experiments in his house while his parents…
Pompeii
Here is what Pliny the Younger wrote when he set down his memories of the devastating volcanic eruption at Pompeii, in 79 AD: “You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men. There…
Scorned
“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” – William Congreve (English Playwright and Poet, 1967, in The Mourning Bride) Revenge flicks can be good. If they have enough of a…
Chill Wills
Chill Theodore Wills (July 18, 1902 – December 15, 1978) was an American film and television actor and a singer in the Avalon Boys Quartet. Biography: Wills was born in 1902 in Seagoville near Mesquite in Dallas County, Texas. He…
More Stuff
Another one of those reviews that some might construe as being a tad biased. As I did with Arrow’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 re-release, I contributed to this Blu-ray, in that I wrote its accompanying booklet. That piece on food…
Time Runner
This movie makes my life hurt. It stars everyone’s favorite actor Mark Hamill as a time travelling savior from the future named Michael Raynor. On this little jaunt through stupidity we find out much more than we need to know…
Bullets Don’t Argue (1964)
“Bullets Don’t Lie” is a Ravioli/Chorizo Western with a prolific Italian director and usual actors from Spaghetti . Entertaining Spaghetti Western with shootouts , action , go riding ,violence and amusement . On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett…
Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt (2011)
When Jenna asks her four hot girlfriends to help convert an old mansion into a Halloween Haunt, they decide to party instead! Things get steamy between the girls, until they accidentally unleash the half-pint, horrible Killer Eye, a perverse party…
Samuel Fuller
Crime reporter, freelance journalist, pulp novelist, screenwriter, World War II infantryman—Samuel Fuller was a jack of all trades before the high-school dropout directed his first film at age thirty-six. But once he was contacted by Poverty Row producer Robert L….
Commandos (1968)
“Commandos” was released in 1968 and has been in circulation on public domain home video (and now DVD) in the United States and abroad since the early 1980s. A great widescreen print has now surfaced on DVD, one from the…
Dirty Heroes (1967)
Possibly the best that I’ve watched of the “Euro-Cult” variations on Hollywood’s war-themed spectaculars of the 1960s (ditto with respect to the films of director De Martino); that said, its overall quality is only comparable to second-tier legitimate efforts like,…
The Angry Hills (1959)
The Angry Hills casts Robert Mitchum as an American foreign correspondent embedded to use today’s terminology with the British troops who are evacuating Greece after the German invasions blitzkrieg catches them flat footed in the summer of 1941. The Germans…
A Professional Gun (1968)
An Mexican outlaw, with the help of a hired Polish gunslinger go out to make an massive rebellious army to take back what they believe is an poorly treated Mexico that is run by crooked and rich upper-class folk. So…
Inferno (1980)
An American college student in Rome and his sister in New York investigate a series of killings in both locations where their resident addresses are the domain of two covens of witches. As I understand by the definition H. P….
The Doll Squad (1973)
Ted V Mikels is a kitsch director whose best work rises above practical efforts at criticism. He produced the films most highly regarded amongst a coterie of fans over just few years: ‘The Astro Zombies’ (1969), ‘The Corpse Grinders’ (1972),…
Shoot First… Ask Questions Later (1975)
A very funny Western about some roguish adventurers who attempt to rob a fortune of a rescue . Italian-Spanish co-production full of action , exaggerated characters, shootouts and lots of humor . This Spaghetti Western concerns about robbing a valuable…