Psych-Out (1968)
It was one of several ’60’s films to depict ordinary people losing faith with the materialistic world and joining the counter-culture, others include Peter Sellers in ‘I Love You Alice B.Toklas’, Bob Hope in ‘How To Commit Marriage’, and a…
The Land Unknown (1957)
This rip-roaring sci-fi adventure scores high marks in several categories. The story concerns four people whose helicopter lands in an unknown prehistoric valley, a freak temperate zone located thousands of feet below sea level in the Antarctic, kept warm by…
Madison County (2011)
Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than…
The Drive-in Will Survive
Drive-in movie theaters are dinosaurs in this 21st-century age of multiplexes, megaplexes and the IMAX movie experience. They numbered in the thousands as their popularity rose in the 1950s and 1960s, but only about 400 are known to exist in…
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Wealthy heiress Nancy Archer (Allison Hayes) has a lot of money but she also has a lot of problems. For one thing, despite being a very beautiful woman, the inheritor of a 50 million dollar financial empire and owner of…
Bronx Warriors 2 (1983)
Outstripping its predecessor by 3 score and ten this little beauty ranks with Hard Boiled for relentless, brutal action. Depending on which copy of this film you own it is either “a few” or “ten” years after Bronx Warriors and…
Fade To Black (1980)
The low-budget production had the premise (innovative and creepy), but the execution of it seemed a little off when it had to count. I wouldn’t call it just a horror film, as it had a bit of everything in it….
Santo Versus the Vampire Women (1962)
In the late fifties a horror genre burst onto the Mexican screen:masked wrestlers as super heroes.They were a huge hit in Mexico.As usual K Gordon Murray snapped up the American rights to these films.Most were sold directly to televison as…
Monsters (2010)
While there have been plenty of valid comparisons made between this film and last year’s sci-fi hit District – 9 (due solely to the fact that the two films share an admittedly similar global concept; that of aliens landing and…
The Snow Creature (1954)
Silly, preposterous cheapie from Billy Wilder’s incowpetant kid brother, W. Lee Wilder(“Killers from Space”, “Phantom from Space”, “Manfish”). A churlish failed botanist & a drunk photographer lead a group of Japanese actors trying to pass as Tibetans into some poorly…
The Wicker Man (1973)
The best British horror film ever made? Probably, yes. The best horror film ever made? No. The best occult thriller ever? Quite possibly. The film was in part conceived as a vehicle for Christopher Lee to get away from his…
Zombie Strippers (2008)
In the near future(..during George W Bush’s *fourth* Presidential term!),a commando unit(..the Z Squad)are called upon by governmental scientists to eradicate a compound riddled with zombies thanks in part to the release of a chemo-virus..this virus was designed to reanimate…
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
This was better than it should have been. It should have been a stupid, horrible Class B movie – killer rocks threatening a town? – but it was quite interesting. It wasn’t frightening but it succeeded in keeping my interest,…
The Prowler (1981)
Rosemary’s Killer (aka The Prowler) has a central theme similar to the same year’s My Blood Valentine – a killer who’s psychosis is re-triggered by the reawakening of a long dead tradition, in both cases a dance. The Prowler is…
Hog Wild (1980)
It’s easy to write off Les Rose’s teen motorcycle comedy Hog Wild as just another Porky’s clone at least until you discover that it actually pre-dates Bob Clark’s coming-of-age classic by several years. Hitting theatres and drive-ins in the long…
Godzilla (1954)
This one started it all: the first and original Godzilla (Gojira) movie, and also serves as the beginning to a long line of sci-fi and monster (kaiju in Japan) movies from Toho Studios. We have a story where Japan is…
Angels Hard as They Come (1971)
Jonathan Demme, who wrote the script for this, went on to become one of Hollywood’s most prominent directors. There’s no indication of his talent whatsoever in this, his first work. “Angels Hard as They Come” is possibly the dullest, least…
Eyes Of Hell (1961)
Dr. Allan Barnes (Paul Stevens) is working with a troubled man who comes into his office claiming to have murdered a woman due to a mysterious mask in his possession. The doctor doesn’t believe this so the man kills himself…
Return of the Fly (1959)
BRETT HALSEY is one of those handsome young actors from the ’50s who never quite made it to stardom, and following the trend of other such actors, he fled to Europe where he found a niche for a decade or…
The Slippery Slope Of Spectacle
In the 1930s, eighty million people went to the movies every week, with weekly attendance peaking at ninety million in 1930′;s and again in the mid-1940s. Now at best about thirty million people go to the movies every year. This…