Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Rumor has it Martin Scorsese showed this film, his second, to John Cassavetes, who labeled the movie “sh*t” and suggested Marty work on more personal projects in the future. This advice prompted Scorsese to direct Mean Streets, the first of…
The Truly Independent George A. Romero
George A. Romero, the man who gave us zombies, allegory and truly independent movies passed away this week in Toronto at the age of 77. His passing has caused me to pause and reflect on the idea of an independent…
Big Bad Mama (1974)
Imagine Bonnie and Clyde without Clyde and with more of a trashy B-movie style to it, and you’ve got an idea of what Big Bad Mama is like. With Roger Corman on producing duty, you’ve to expect some silly trashy…
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (1973)
After being sexually molested as a small child, Frigga (the beautiful Christina Lindberg) becomes mute. Fast forward about 15 years, and after missing a bus to go to her therapy she accepts a ride from a shady character. Before long…
House on Haunted Hill (1959)
William Castle has made several wonderful horror films; some obviously better than others, but at the top of the list are “Thirteen Ghosts” and “House on Haunted Hill.” This movie might though have been all but forgotten if not one…
Blacula (1972)
It seems that a lot of people dislike this film due to weak contextual restraints. Superficical gripes towards the actors’ fashions or the homosexual lampooning in the film are myopic at best. This film came out in 1972- before Halloween,…
Up the Creek (1984)
Okay, this is one of my guilty pleasures. This is definitely NOT deserving of my ranking of 9 out of 10 in the grand scheme of things. This is stupid, moronic, stereotypical, razor-thin plot,… basically every negative the actual movie…
Some Girls Do (1969)
This sequel for the 1966 trash classic “Deadlier than the male” is quite a disappointment compared with the original spy movie. There are good bad movies and there are bad bad movies. This one’s medium bad. The film has a…
The Sex Thief (1973)
THE SEX THIEF is a British sexploitation movie from 1974 with a surprising amount of professional qualities given the usual standards of the genre. It has a plot, for instance, rather than a series of random vignettes, and although it’s…
A Taste of Flesh (1967)
A couple lesbians are at home with their female guest when there’s a knock at the door. Before long two men are holding them hostage because they need to use their place to assassinate a foreign officer who will be…
The Last Days of Man on Earth (1973)
The novel from which this movie was taken, The Final Programme, by Michael Moorcock, is structurally identical in plot and character to another Moorcock novel… Elric of Melnibone, the first of the Elric series. This is not a coincidence; both…
Killers from Space (1954)
Circling over ground zero at the Atomic test site at Soladed Flats, to monitor radiation levels. The jet-pilot aboard flying the plane with Dr. Doug Martin, Peter Graves, loses control and crashes in the empty desert. The next day at…
Martin Landau R.I.P.
It’s been one hell of a day….. From the Hollywood Reporter Martin Landau, the all-purpose actor who showcased his versatility as a master of disguise on the Mission: Impossible TV series and as a broken-down Bela Lugosi in his Oscar-winning…
A Giant Passes: George A.Romero
As an independent filmmaker and a movie fan this is a great loss. A loss of an independent artist, a visionary and a unique cinematic voice. He shall be deeply missed and reflected upon. He was an inspiration and a…
7 Man Army (1976)
I saw this movie as the second half of a midnight double bill more than 20 years ago and it made a lasting impression. A group of brave Chinese martial arts fighters take a stand against the Japanese invaders during…
Celestine, Maid at Your Service (1974)
Italian sex comedy from Jess Franco actually has the same source of Luis Bunuel’s Diary of a Chambermaid but this here goes for way more laughs. The police raid a brothel and a prostitute (Lina Romay) escapes into the countryside….
Taking Back The Movies
You can’t please everyone so you gotta please yourself. Ricky Nelson My grandmother was an exceedingly smart woman, she taught me a lot of thing but always drilled down on one particular true, To Thine Self Be True, said by…
Girly (1970)
Fans of British horror and black comedy should definitely track down this Freddie Francis film, which was not imaginatively marketed at the time of its release and was never able to connect with its proper audience. I saw this at…
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
Mission Commander Sonny Tufts and his crew of space explorers brave the perils of a hostile Moon. They are threatened by a giant Moon spider and captured by telepathic lunar Amazons in black tights. A love triangle develops between Sonny,…
Battle Beyond the Stars (1980)
BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, Roger Corman’s ‘take’ of the STAR WARS saga, is a film justly recognized as a cult classic. Shot in his new studio (“The paint was still wet,” Corman has joked), in just five weeks, on a…