I, Madman (1989)
Even though the premise sounds very ordinary and repetitive, this late 80’s thriller features an unusually great deal of tension and slick elements. Tibor Tikács’ (love the name) “I, Madman” focuses on a young woman Virginia obsessed by…
Karate, the Hand of Death (1961)
The true story behind hands of death was that it was a military intelligence front in Japan monitoring the communist party. The back story is fascinating and the people involved in this movie should be contacted before they are forever…
Ashes in the Snow
Moviegoers have been down the road many times of the horror Hitler carried out during WWII, but only a few films were about the terror that reigned in other Eastern European countries by Stalin and the Soviet Union. Ashes in…
Demons 2 (1986)
Director Lamberto Bava and producer Dario Argento quickly responded to the international success of DEMONS (1985) with this sequel. Abandoning the downbeat open ending of the original film, this follow-up merely repeats the scenario rather than continuing it. Sadly, the…
Tripping The Light Fandango
Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000168 EndHTML:0000007281 StartFragment:0000000438 EndFragment:0000007264 When I was much younger, I really enjoyed going to record stores and browsing the thousand of albums that were set out is various kinds of display bins. Lifting the albums out admiring the art…
Don’t Panic (1987)
This is a generally unsuccessful attempt by low-budget Mexican filmmakers to ape the “Nightmare on Elm Street” sequels, but although it is pretty incompetent it is much more lovable than most of those overblown American cash-ins. Instead of “Fredddy” we…
The Burning (1981)
An abusive caretaker at a lonely summer camp is disfigured by fire during a prank which goes horribly wrong. Five years later, he returns to the area to take revenge against one of his former persecutors (now a camp counsellor)…
It Lives Again (1978)
John P. Ryan returns as Frank Davis, the father of the monster baby from It’s Alive, this time to warn parents of infants about to be born of a conspiracy of the government to have killing squads ready at the…
Chou (1972)
QUEEN BOXER (1972, aka THE AVENGER) is the film that introduced fighting femme Judy Lee (aka Chia Ling) to a worldwide audience. It’s a simple low-budget tale that’s as much crime drama as kung fu movie as it chronicles the…
Cardiac Arrest (1980)
CARDIAC ARREST hit video shelves and was being sold as a horror movie with a pretty good cover showing an evil doctor holding a heart. I’m going to guess that this film was put into theaters as a detective story…
The Prowler (1981)
The Prowler is an overlooked horror film from that golden age of slasher films of the late 70s and early 80s. The film is directed by Joseph Zito who has special effects wizard Tom Savini to thank for the film’s…
Persecution (1974)
Also shown under the titles THE GRAVEYARD and THE TERROR OF SHEBA, this Gothic British horror movie stars Lana Turner as a maniacal mother who delights in making life miserable for her spineless son(Ralph Bates) who is slowly, but surly,…
Lady Dracula (1977)
“Lady Dracula” is a West German German-language film from 1977, so this one has its 40th anniversary this year. It was directed by Austrian Franz Josef Gottlieb, who was highly prolific in his long career, but also came up with…
Murder Syndrome (1981)
Michael is a successful actor,but he has a scandal in his past:it seems that at a tender age he knifed his father to death.He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother’s for the weekend and are joined by the…
Blacula (1972)
Given the cheesy title, any viewer would go into “Blacula” expecting a laughable blaxploitation flick. But in fact, not only is “Blacula” well-made, it ranks as one of the best vampire films of all time. “Blacula” certainly doesn’t age very…
City in the Sea (1965)
When a body is washed ashore on the coast by a small English village it sparks an investigation in the mind of Ben Harris. He visits the home where the deceased had been a lawyer and finds clues that indicate…
The Human Duplicators (1965)
Hugo Grimaldi’s directorial work will not win him any awards from mainstream Hollywood, but he has made his niche on the world of B-Movies. This effort was a step up in some ways from his classic, “The Phantom Planet”, where…
Hot Rods To Hell (1967)
Given a title like this, it’s a cinch no one will take this road movie seriously except for a few of us who hate seeing a decent family being harrassed by some mindless hot rodders intent on making dangerous moves…
The Colossus of New York (1958)
The impressive title work is the viewer’s first clue that producer William Alland and director Eugene Lourie squeezed considerable artistry and style from a shoestring budget. Look past the economic limitations; the suspenseful and imaginative story involves the death of…
D.O.A. (1949)
The tale concerns about a lengthy flashback where the protagonist (Edmond O’Brien) after leaving his girlfriend (Pamela Britton ) goes to San Francisco . There is given an extremely slow-action poison . The starring relates his own murder and becomes…