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Foundational Cinema

Month: February 2020

Full Moon High (1981)

Aiming at a blend of Airplane! style wackiness and Mel Brooks-a-like angsty spoof, this is almost good – the occasional inspired moment (Werewolf Annoys Community) keeps you watching through the massive swathes of so-so gags, occasional clunkers and habitual dragging…

Savage Dawn (1985)

Awesome Guy movie! Everything you would want and more from a mid Eighties action flick… While being more low budget that most Hollywood films this didn’t feel like it, while the acting wasn’t gonna gain any awards it worked! Just…

Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970)

Ya gotta love Al Adamson. Only he would (1) take footage from a 20-year-old movie about gorillas in diving helmets (“Robot Monster”); (2) combine it with clips from a 30-year-old movie about elephants with hair mats glued to their sides…

Cut and Run (1985)

From the director of Cannibal Holocaust – undoubtedly one of the most impressive movies ever made – comes this action packed thriller about drug dealing and ruthless murder. The film has also a strong adventure-oriented impact that makes other adventure-films…

Blood Nasty (1989)

The plot is a little rough but I’ll try and explain it. A man gets involved in some sort of grave robbing situation and then gets kicked into the grave and switches souls with a Mexican serial killer named Blade….

The Demons of Ludlow (1983)

On its 200th birthday a town is given a piano as a gift. Unfotunately its haunted by the spirit of sorcerer killed by some of the town’s founders. You’ve seen it all before and better. Actually you’ve also seen it…

Graveyard Shift (1987)

Ever wonder what Dracula would be like mashed up with Taxi Driver? Me neither, but I found this when I was cleaning out my stepson’s room after he moved out, so I figured why not. Silvio Oliviero stars as an…

Blood Lake (1987)

This has to definitly be the worst horror film. Sometimes when i hear a bad review about a horror movie, I just blow it off because I like to experiene the movie myself, but this time I should have taken…

Don’t Give Up the Ship (1959)

The raw talent of comic Jerry Lewis, has rarely been equaled, but not often surpassed. He has entertained American audiences for decades. Today, his star power has become a present staple in France. Here, is one of his finer offerings….

Visit to a Small Planet (1960)

erry plays a most innocent alien with powers akin to what Ray Walston had in my favorite Martian. His people from way the other side of the galaxy have progressed to not only having powers beyond mortal men, but have…

The Loners (1972)

Don’t expect a biker flick. Don’t expect the genius of Easy Rider. Okay, now that you’re not expecting anything….sit back and enjoy Dean Stockwell as a tense, neurotic, lonely and misunderstood youth on his way to self-destruction. This is years…

Cycle Vixens (1978)

Three young girls living in a small Colorado town decide to take a trip on their motorbikes to California “to see the ocean”. Two of the girls are sisters and go with the blessing of their widower father. The third…

They Don’t Make Movies Like They Used To

At the end of the week, I sit down at my dining room table and start typing. Usually, these articles which I post are the result of something that has happened in this business, an email or a call from…

My Bloody Valentine (1981)

Twenty years ago, Harry Warden went nuts and slaughtered a bunch of people on Valentine’s Day. The mining town he hailed from canceled subsequent V-Day dances, but when they try setting one up again, Warden seemingly returns with his pickax,…

Vampire Circus (1972)

An small village somewhere in Europe, where the villagers can’t leave their small town. Because of the recent plague, then an mysterious group of circus people (Lead by Adrienne Corri) are coming to this village to bring happiness and joy…

Cleopatra Jones (1973)

Back in the Seventies, mainstream audiences still reeling from the one-two punch of Shaft and Superfly were subjected to a barrage of ghetto avengers – Black Caesar, Willie Dynamite, The Candy Tangerine Man and the rest – all covering depressingly…

Gorgo (1961)

Bill Travers and William Sylvester (the latter having played Heywood Floyd in 2001 and also starring in *UGH* Devil Doll) are a group of fishermen/pirates who scour the ocean floor for gold and such. Well, one day, a volcano erupts…

The Fog (1980)

One hundred years ago, on April 21st, the wealthy leper Blake bought the vessel Elizabeth Dane and moved with his friend from a leper colony to California to build a town for them to live with more comfort. However, while…

Satan’s Satellites (1958)

“Satan’s Satellites,” like its 1958 companion feature “Missile Monsters,” was derived of footage from a Republic serial, in this case 1952’s “Zombies of the Stratosphere,” showcasing the famed Rocket Man costume introduced in 1949’s “King of the Rocket Men.” As…