Cry of the Banshee (1970)
Gordon Hessler’s “Cry Of The Banshee” of 1970 is certainly one of the weaker films with the great Vincent Price, but it is still a pretty good horror flick, and certainly way underrated. I must add, however, that Vincent Price…
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descent or degeneration to a lower or worse state. When VHS came on the scene, there was hand wringing and worry amongst the media prognosticators that this medium would spell the doom for the theatrical exhibition business. This did not…
Equinox (1970)
Originally made in 1967, THE EQUINOX…A JOURNEY INTO THE SUPERNATURAL is basically a 70-minute home movie – amateurish if clearly made by fanatics of the horror genre, talented enough to create their own monsters (which aren’t too bad into the…
Russian Roulette (1975)
Tense and high wire-like thriller set in the Canadian city of Vancouver about an attempted assassination of Soviet Primer Kosygin by a rouge KGB group thats in charge of his protection. With the Cold War winding down it looks like…
HOLY TERROR – Review
Directed By: Rich Mallery Starring: Kristine DeBell, Lisa London, Mel Novak, Vida Ghaffari, Kelly Reiter, Bogdan Szumilas, Jesse Hlubik, Scott Butler, Joseph Kelbie Williamson Storyline: “Believing the strange disturbances in their home are their deceased son reaching out from the…
Death Ship (1980)
The plot is reasonably simple but inarguably bizarre. In the opening scenes, a luxury cruise ship packed with holidaymakers collides with some kind of ghastly black vessel in the middle of the ocean. The cruiser sinks, killing almost everyone on…
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
The Astro-Zombies is one of those Z-grade efforts where you can tell the producers had a bunch of props and sets left over from previous productions and wrote a script based around them. Therefore, the film makes absolutely no sense,…
Riders to the Stars (1954)
Pretty decent, low-budget sci-fi film about a group of men first being selected for a dangerous space mission to lasso a meteor in space and return it to Earth so its outer hull can be analyzed. The men are taken…
Hell Is a City (1960)
Stanley Baker has one of his best leading roles as the tough cop who tries to make several ends meet – catch a dangerous criminal (American actor John Crawford, very effective) who’s basically his alter ego, save his childless marriage…
Sonny and Jed (1972)
Sergio Leone, the king of spaghetti westerns, would never have dreamed of making a western like “Sonny and Jed.” It is a poignant film that was considered daring at the time of its release and is now labeled by many…
The Candy Tangerine Man (1975)
A favorite of both filmmaker Quentin Tarantino and his frequent cast member Samuel L. Jackson, “The Candy Tangerine Man” is simply primo exploitation. It stars the unfortunately little known John Daniels (“Black Shampoo”) as “The Baron”, a smooth as hell…
Two Mules for Sister Sara (1970)
The famous critic Pauline Kael in an interview mentioned that the opinion about a film sometimes changes according to the time that the film is viewed. A film that might be great when seen for the first time ten years…
Alien from L.A. (1988)
A California valley girl named Wanda Saknussemm (Kathy Ireland), desperately searching for a means to make a new start and escape her nerdish tendencies, goes to Africa in search of her absentee archaeologist father following reports he may have fallen…
Logan’s Run (1976)
In the year 2274, a faction of the human race, following global war and other apparent catastrophes that have ravaged the Earth, live together in a giant domed city, completely sealed off from the outside world. Here, in this bubbled…
The Thrill Killers (1964)
Ray Dennis Steckler directs and stars as bug-eyed maniac with a buzz-cut(“I hate people!People are cheap!”)whose brother is one of three lunatics having escaped an asylum for the criminally insane. Gary Kent(..this is the third film I’ve seen of this…
The Fastest Guitar Alive (1967)
Singing guitar-slinger Roy Orbison (as Johnny Banner) and hunky sidekick Sammy Jackson (as Steve Menlo) battle more Indians than Union soldiers as they work “undercover” for President Jefferson Davis and the Confederacy. When the Civil War ends, a booty of…
Mars Attacks the World (1938)
A large ray from Mars comes crashing through to Earth and messes up the atmosphere causing major storms, which could end up killing everyone. It turns out that Ming the Merciless (Charles Middleton) plans to destroy the Earth so a…
An Urban Apocalypse: Movie Theatres and The Malls
Sherman Oaks Galleria is a shopping mall and business center located in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, at the corner of Ventura and Sepulveda Boulevards in the San Fernando Valley.The teenage mall culture which formed…
Nightmare Beach (1989)
This juicy slice of summer happens to be one of the most professional Italian movies made on US soil. You get young people partying, 80s metal non stop, wet t-shirt contests, pretty girls making a buck or two on the…
Ghostkeeper (1981)
Ghostkeeper probably has one of the best horror movie settings ever, in my opinion. It takes place in an isolated old lodge (Deer Lodge, an actual functioning resort)amid the snowy Canadian Rockies, surrounded by huge snow-covered mountains and towering evergreen…