The Bat People (1974)
Dr. John Beck (Stewart Moss) and his lovely wife Cathy (Marranne McAndrew) fell into an underground cave. When his wife was attacked by a bat, he tried to help her but he ended up getting bitten instead. Beck thought the…
Cyborg 2087 (1966)
Michael Rennie of “The Day the Earth Stood Still” fame stars as Garth A7, a cyborg sent by a future civilization back to 1966. His mission is to make sure that the revolutionary “radio-telepathy” technique being engineered by Professor Marx…
Hot Rods to Hell (1967)
”Hot Rods To Hell is really a good look at late sixties culture. The acting by onetime stars Dana Andrews and Jeanne Crain, is fine. They are well supported by Mimsy Farmer and Laurie Mock, both of whom would soon…
The Blue Max (1966)
Interesting War drama taken from German point of view , it deals with a young pilot named Stachel (George Peppard) in the air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous , attempts ambitiously to earn the medal -The Blue…
The Phantom Planet (1961)
The story goes from chapter to chapter with innocent exuberance. It’s a typical “meeting aliens in outer space” story. An astronaut meets barefooted Lilliputian aliens (who all wear Star Trek type mini-skirts) hiding inside an asteroid, and promptly shrinks to…
Savage Sisters (1974)
‘Savage Sisters’ comes from the same period as the Jack Hill led Filipino “chicks in chains” flicks of the early 70s ( see ‘The Big Doll House’ and ‘The Big Bird Cage’ for the best of the genre). Hill wasn’t…
Red Planet Mars (1952)
This old , offbeat and incredible Cold War relic deals with an American scientist discovering that a Radio voice transmission from Mars belongs to God . As the scientific (Peter Graves) and wife (Andrea King) contact Mars by radio and…
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
“The Corrupt Ones” is a Cold War-era adventure story about a chase for the Peking Medallion, which is the key to an ancient Chinese treasure. The stars are Robert Stack and Elke Sommer, but, as is usual in this type…
THE LAST BLITZKRIEG works as it offers something a little different from the usual American WW2 film in terms of plot. The main characters in the movie are actually Nazi soldiers who are disguised as American troops and sent on…
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
This Paramount film has the kind of outlandish plot often found in minor studio cheapies of the same period: Phillip Terry’s sister (Ellen Drew) foolishly falls for a gangster and ends up sold into “white slavery.” Her brother tries to…
Seizure (1974)
Oliver Stone’s feature film debut concerns a horror author named Edmund (played by Dark Shadows’ Jonathon Frid) who is plagued by nightmares. When he and his wife have a bunch of guests up to their isolated house for a relaxing…
Spring Night, Summer Night (1967)
Joseph L. Anderson’s “Spring Night, Summer Night” is another sixties exploitation movie to be rediscovered and restored by Nicolas Winding Refn but this one really is something of a lost classic. Anderson filmed it almost entirely with non-professionals and shot…
Starfish – Coming Soon
Currently screening at various theatres Starfish is about when a mysterious signal from an unknown dimension summons the end of days, it appears as if only Aubrey is left on earth. Trapped in the apartment of her recently deceased best…
1,000 Convicts and a Woman (1971)
American actress Alexandra Hay plays a spoiled, nymphomaniacal British girl, ironically named “Angela”, who returns from four years of boarding school in Boston (which might explain why her accent keeps shifting from British to American)to stay with father at progressive…
Girl in Gold Boots (1968)
efore there was “Showgirls” there was “Girl in Gold Boots”. This film is even worse and worse made. You know, I really think the director took himself seriously when he made this movie. Sad, is it not? But I think…
Save The World….Go See a Movies
As a passionate movie goer I consider myself more than lucky. When I first started going to the movies I had the honor of watching movies in 600 plus seat houses, and often at capacity, it was nothing short of…
Cannonball! (1976)
‘Cannonball’ is one of the least remembered of the short-lived but successful 1970s car race/car crash genre begun by ‘The Gumball Rally’. What really makes this one stand out is that it was directed by the late Paul Bartel (in…
Capone (1975)
There’s some decent names – Ben Gazzara, Harry Guardino, blink-and-you’ll miss-him John Cassavetes – in this cheap biopic produced by Roger Corman but you can only assume they were on their uppers when it was made because it’s not particularly…
The Sky Calls (1959)
Like most soviet films of the period (and I watched the original version), in has no action whatsoever. The plot is stilted as statues at the People’s Economy Achievements Exhibition in Moscow, and the story drags its feet to no…
The Last Starfighter (1984)
Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) lives in a trailer park with his mother Jane Rogan (Barbara Bosson) and his younger brother Louis (Chris Hebert). Alex is a handyman that helps his neighbors in small tasks and he is waiting for a…