Killers from Space (1954)
This film is wonderfully cheap, awkward, and earnest. The director has a few successful scenes where a creepy mood is achieved, and there is a kind of plausibility throughout if one is able to accept the concept of an entire…
The Land Unknown (1957)
Long before I ever knew about the existence of “The Land Unknown”, I had already seen clips of its legendary T-Rex in various TV-shows spoofing bad movies and even wannabe funny commercials promoting the strength of cornflakes. It was like…
Call Me Dragon (1974)
CALL ME DRAGON is a pretty typical kung fu movie from the mid-1970s, a little better than most thanks to the participation of director Ng See-Yuen, a former Shaw man who produced and directed many interesting movies over the years….
On Any Sunday (1971)
Modest aspirations, budget and technique made this a surprising box-office hit back in 1971, and to this day nobody’s done it better. Populist documentarian Bruce Brown (of ENDLESS SUMMER fame) wanted to show how much fun motorcycling is and succeeded….
The Single Girls (1974)
A group of men and women travel to an island retreat where Dr. Phillip Stevens (Wayne C. Dvorak) helps them to expand their sexual awareness by discussing their needs, getting them to fondle each other in the dark, and walk…
The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Busting out of prison, sexy blonde Claudia Jennings (as Candy Morgan) gets out of her jumpsuit and robs a small Texas bank, with lighted sticks of dynamite. Ms. Jennings is assisted by sexy blonde bank teller Jocelyn Jones (as Ellie-Jo…
The Swarm (1978)
A swarm of African killer bees rampage across America’s south-west before descending on Houston, destroying everything in their path. Contrary to popular opinion, THE SWARM is not the worst movie ever made, and anyone who says otherwise clearly hasn’t seen…
A Bay of Blood (1971)
A handicapped and wealthy countess, who owns the lands of a disputed bay, is hanged by her husband and he is immediately killed. The crime scene is forged to simulate a suicide of the old woman. Later, two young couples…
The Hot Box (1972)
As other reviewers have already mentioned, “The Hot Box” has been mis-marketed as a Women-In-Prison film, when in fact it is a low-budget action film with four American nurses getting caught up in a revolution taking place in the “republic…
Gator (1976)
The movie Gator is full of action. As with many Burt Reynolds movies the cops are once again practically useless. The standout is Jerry Reed as Bama McCall. Jerry Reed takes his role and runs with it till their is…
The Dark (1979)
A former convict turned reporter (William Devane) sees that his daughter has been brutally mutilated so he sets out to try and find the killer as does a detective (Richard Jaeckel) working the case. It turns out that a space…
City in the Sea (1965)
When you consider that this movie is directed by the great Jacques Tourneur, stars the legendary Vincent Price and is based on a poem by the master of the macabre, Edgar Allen Poe; it’s a huge disappointment. Considering the quality…
Rock ‘n’ Roll Nightmare (1987)
First of all, this movie was shot in seven days with a budget of only 50 thousand dollars. Okay? You make a better movie with that much time and money. Second, everybody was an amateur back then. For the money…
Alone in the Dark (1982)
The debut film of B movie director Jack Sholder, and one of the first films from New Line Cinema, is this highly entertaining and strikingly intelligent little thriller. When the power fails in a New Jersey community, four murderously insane…
Re-Imagining the Multiplex
The ’90s were a more than interesting decade for the exhibition. In the 1990s for the most part, movie attendance was up, mostly at multi-screen cineplex complexes throughout the USA. Although the average movie budget had climbed $53 million by…
The Theory Of Evolution: Re-imaging The Multiplex
The ’90s were a more than interesting decade for the exhibition. In the 1990s for the most part, movie attendance was up, mostly at multi-screen cineplex complexes throughout the USA. Although the average movie budget had climbed $53 million by…
Death of a Snowman (1976)
I know exploitation cinema isn’t exclusive to America, many countries around the world have made and continue to make exploitation, but I have to say that I’m rather surprised to see a Blaxploitation film hailing from South Africa. I suppose…
Night Train to Terror (1985)
God and Satan are on board a train where a rock band is playing. The two talk about who is respected more and then we see three separate stories. The first story deals with a man who feels guilty over…
Robot Holocaust (1986)
Director Tim Kincaid made other entertaining and campy films in NYC during the 80s like BREEDERS and BAD GIRLS DORMITORY (a favorite) but neither of those contain a performance as memorably bad as Angelika Jager. Speaking English with a heavy…
Nightmare City (1980)
Nightmare City (1980) TV news reporter named Dean Miller (Hugo Stiglitz) along with his cameraman (Antonio Mayans) waits at the airport for the arrival of a scientific that he is about to interview . Then , a Hercules C 1330…