The Monster and the Ape (1945)
The plot and adventures were fun. The monster is a robot. Macready is a king of crime who wants to use the robot for evil. The cliffhangers were mostly laughable cheats. In one episode you see a stunned Robert Lowery…
The Magnetic Monster (1953)
The astounding story of the “thing” that came alive deals with the discovery of an atomic power , then the government has set up a special group, the Office of Scientific Investigation or OSI , to look into rare phenomenon…
Taming The Dragon: Streaming, Gen Z’s and Movie Going
November 12th looms large over the theatrical exhibition business. It is the day Disney launches it’s streaming platform Disney Plus. There is nothing we are going to do about it is simply going to happen. In fact, it has already…
The Outing (1987)
If scary movies are supposed to have morals than the lesson taught by this movie is “Be careful what you wish for”. Okay, forget the fact that all the “teens” in this movie look too old even for grad school…
The Black Pit of Dr. M (1959)
I couldn’t think of a place more far-removed from the dreary streets, Gothic cathedrals, stone gargoyles and misty back-alleys that have come to be associated the Gothic horror sub-genre, than Mexico. Yet here we have a pure Gothic story told…
Two on a Guillotine (1965)
“Two on a Guillotine” is an effective little BW chiller when aiming for the scares, but when that’s not the case it becomes ponderous (the budding romance between the leads) and it in end too long-winded when it finally reach…
The Barn (2016)
Do you like the old school grindhouse style of films like Planet Terror or Hobo With a Shotgun? Well then you’ll probably like The Barn. It’s really quite that simple. It’s a total homage to the exploitation cinema in that…
Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
Pretty good low budget regional horror flick from the director of the classic ‘Creature From Black Lake’. It does have some problems, though; Gerald McRaney’s acting job does a complete meltdown every so often, there’s the psychedelic music video intermission…
Gunhed (1989)
Incredible special effects make this movie worthwhile. For a movie made from Toho it has special effects worthy of an Oscar in 1989. The Japanese version is the one you should watch because it has better dialouge and it isn’t…
Hapkido (1972)
Raymond Chow produced “Lady Kung-Fu,” a no-holds-barred martial arts action flick from the early 1970s directed by Feng Huang, and contains shades of nearly every Bruce Lee movie from that time. When I looked at it last night, I saw…
Fight for Survival (1977)
THE FIGHT FOR SHAOLIN TAMO MYSTIQUE is an odd little martial arts film, shot in Taiwan. The script incorporates lots of little fantastic touches that don’t really work very well on what is clearly a low budget, but somehow add…
I sette magnifici gladiatori (1983)
The mighty Lou Ferrigno stars in this swords & sandal take on Akira Kurosawa’s classic The Seven Samurai, brought to us in this case by the ever maligned Bruno Mattei. Big Lou’s mission, along with his assembled warriors, is to…
Night Creature (1978)
The adult children of a reclusive and eccentric former game hunter, travel to his island fortress for a surprise visit. What they didn’t count on was the 200 lbs jaguar he imported to hunt, now on the loose and turning…
X-Ray (1981)
While receiving a routine check-up, a beautiful woman (Barbi Benton) is stalked by a maniac (Charles Lucia) out to avenge a childhood Valentine’s Day humiliation. I see another reviewer called this Kafkaesque, and I am glad I was not alone…
The Glove (1979)
‘The Glove’ has that quintessential charm of the 1970’s movie. The grainy stock, fuzzy sound recording, squinty leading men, large automobiles, aimless & episodic screenplay; yes, everything right down to the sentimental piano notes in the score wordlessly ‘decrying the…
Killbillies (2015)
Just watched a truly superior horror film from Slovenia with subtitles. This is definitely a must-see, the production is amazing, the acting is great, and the script is extremely frightening with great graphic kills. I absolutely love “Killbillies (2015)”, it…
Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
“Four Flies On Grey Velvet” is surely an odd, truly bizarre film, even by Dario Argento standards. In my opinion however, it most definitely is not a bad film, much less one of Argento’s worst. Much of what is said…
The Luck Of The Irish: The Pivoting of Theatrical Exhibition
The sun is setting much earlier here in the Mid-West. Fall approaches and the light is getting softer. For the first time in a long time the Labor Day weekend saw no major releases. I was at convention in Texas…
The Female Bunch (1971)
Jennifer Bishop is Grace, the butch leader of a group of feminists who make up a secret society in an isolated desert ranch (in reality the notorious Spahn Ranch, home of the Manson Family). A new member, Sandy (Nesa Renet),…
The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
Undoubtedly the best of the series of Fu Manchu films produced in the late 60s, well cast and well directed by Don Sharp, who commendably eschewed camp ‘Boys Own’ heroics to produce a gripping adventure-thriller. Christopher Lee (as one would…