Creature from the Haunted Sea (1961)
So many people seem to believe that this was supposed to be a straight-up horror film. It is anything but that. Creature From the Haunted Sea is a broad farce first, a political satire second, and finally a horror film/creature…
The Devil Rides Out (1968)
The Devil Rides Out (AKA: The Devil’s Bride) is produced out of Hammer Film Productions. It’s based on the 1934 novel of the same name written by Dennis Wheatley, with Richard Matheson adapting the screenplay. Directed by Terence Fisher, it…
Run, Angel, Run! (1969)
William Smith was a very good casting choice for the lead, Angel is his name of course, for Run Angel Run. He’s got a sympathetic side to his personality that somehow makes him work for Angel, who is sort of…
I, The Jury (1982)
Oh the 70s was a great time for crime features… although “I, the Jury” was made in the early eighties it had me thinking it was from the 70s like some sort leftovers that found itself in the wrong decade….
House of Dracula (1945)
There has been a debate raging for Universal Monster fans over the decades as to what’s the better film — “House of Frankenstein” or “House of Dracula”? For me, I may prefer HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, but I certainly wouldn’t count…
It Truly Is A Wonderful Life
This is a wonderful and glorious season. Only the human spirit could take the coming and descent of winter and whip it into a festival of joy, family and love. For those of us that attach spirituality to the weeks…
Flying Disc Man from Mars (1950)
Mota arrives on Earth from Mars, and takes into confidence manufacturer Bryant (a one time Nazi sympathizer) to launch a wave of destruction that will overwhelm Earth and put the planet under a Martian supreme dictator. Aerial patrolman Kent Fowler…
Black Snake (1973)
Black Snake is a film that is somewhat hard to categorize. Despite being a Russ Meyer film, it doesn’t have enough nudity to be a bona fide soft-core romp. While it sometimes tries to be funny, it doesn’t have nearly…
Moon 44 (1990)
Moon 44 is a b grade sci-fi gem of a movie about in the year 2038 mineral resources on earth have ran out and different corporations are fighting for the last few planets and moons that have minerals on them.Nobody…
The Cyclops (1957)
Bert I. Gordon, when you hear that name many people smile but some tremble. Many of us remember his back projected monsters (THE BEGINNING OF THE END), transparent giants (THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN) and his malevolent ghosts (TORMENTED). Okay so…
The Manhandlers (1974)
hree girls take over a massage parlor only to have the mob pressure them into making it a whorehouse. The overall tone of this movie tries to be serious but comes off light and playful. It really has an innocence…
Mad at the World (1955)
This begins with Wolf-Pack gang members…no, wait it begins with a prologue spoken by Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver saying…”When young people become angry and violent, it affects the whole community…your town and mine. Anger breeds anger, until finally it sweeps…
Women’s Prison Massacre (1983)
This film has been identified in some secondary sources as an alternate title for the one released in US as CAGED WOMEN but they are in fact different, though not *too* different. For the greater part, WIP fans do prefer…
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Bert I. Gordon (BIG) stands out as one of the more successful grade-Z auteurs of 1950’s films, having made within a few short years a slew of monster/scifi ultra low budget films, all of which involve fantastical changes in the…
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
An odd little cinematic gift from England — but don’t take it too seriously. The story is set in an isolated English inn where a flying saucer lands and surrounds the area in an invisible force field. From the spacecraft…
Prehistoric Women (1967)
In 1966, Hammer studios gave the world its cave-girl classic One Million Years B.C., which featured a bevy of fur bikini-clad beauties, including the pneumatic Raquel Welch and the lissom Martine Beswick. The next year, obviously unwilling to consign a…
The Spotlight Shines on Tracey Birdsall
Written By: Keith Makenas “As a director of over a quarter of a century and having worked with thousands of actors, I have never encountered anyone so facilitating and driven as Tracey,” tells Director, Producer, and Writer Neil Johnson. Ever…
A Lust to Kill (1958)
With very little in the way of a storyline, and with sets as crude as a high school play, “A Lust To Kill” is a textbook definition of the 1950s “B” western flick. This movie’s greatest asset, arguably, is that…
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
Your usual troubled youth of the 1950’s movie that has the distinction of being filmed at the famous Griffin Park Observatory just two months-in January 1955- before the granddaddy of all 1950’s troubled youth movies was filmed there “Rebel Without…
Billy Jack (1971)
Disillusioned half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack comes back home to Arizona and what does he find? Several people illegally hunting on Indian land. And to make matters worse, one of them is the local sheriff, so the law…