Schoolgirls in Chains (1973)
Although this Grindhouse-era sleazer is the genuine article, and features enough griminess and mysogeny to merit its title, the film’s relative tameness and tediousness made for a fatiguing watch. As such, this trash is recommended only to genre completists. The…
The Vengeance of She (1968)
First the good part of the film. The beginning of the movie was beautifully and sharply filmed with an excellent view of the French countryside going towards Monaco with a highway cutting through. The opening theme song was haunting, especially…
The Dank Abyss of Social Media and The Movies
One of the things that really annoys me is when someone on social media is somehow forced to expound that they are “super” excited over something that for the most part is inane. Social Media is filled with people who…
Killer Kid (1967)
KILLER KID is a well shot but rather dull spaghetti western, with a muddled storyline that doesn’t really go anywhere and action scenes which, while passing the time, don’t really amount to much. The story as a whole feels more…
Uccidi o muori (1966)
This spaghetti western tries to cash in on the popularity of A Fistful of Dollars, which it vainly tries to copy from everything from the Eastwood look to the offbeat, but talented music of Morricone. The film fails miserably in…
The Bubble (1966)
Director Arch Oboler (“The Twonky”) pioneered a new 3-D process called “Spacevision” which used polarized glasses to separate the right-and-left images for the audience. The 3-D effect works remarkable well, especially in a scene involving a serving tray which floats…
The Oldest Profession (1967)
The sketch film was a staple of European cinema in the Fifties and Sixties. It allowed directors to work out some interesting ideas in 15 to 20 minute segments, on small budgets. Most of the directors on view here are…
Sandokan the Great (1963)
“Sandokan, La Tigre Di Mompracen¨ or “Sandokan the Great” results to be an Oriental adventure with Heroism and High Adventure in the Malay Jungle , it stars Steve Reeves/Sandokan , Lord of Malaysia , accompanied by his European friend Yañez…
The Final Terror (1983)
THE FINAL TERROR is an average horror movie. There were a couple of startling moments (the scene when the couple gets hacked or the sudden ending) but the bulk of the movie is really dull. The atmosphere is almost worthwhile….
The Final Terror (1983)
Young forest rangers and their lady friends take a trip into the wilderness and are terrorized by a woodsy maniac. Yet another slasher in the wake of Friday the 13th (1980), this one being OK as it tries to be…
Curtains (1983)
As slasher movies go, this one is not too bad. It borrows liberally from other more famous Canadian slasher films (the wintry setting and actress Lynn Griffith from “Black Christmas”, the killer’s mask from “Terror Train”), but it’s not a…
Eaten Alive! (1980)
The film begins in Canada and New York, with an Asian hitman killing his victims by blowing poisoned darts at them. He is then run over by a truck and killed. The police find some film on him, and wouldn’t…
Star Pilot (1966)
In the 1960s, the Italians were the best in comedies, dramas, western spaghetti. Trying sci-fi, they did not succeed at all. This movie is not the worst, on the contrary, it’s a good try which has some merits. The best…
The Nesting (1981)
his post-AMITYVILLE HORROR haunted house film directed by porn director Armand Weston occasionally delivers the goods, but is more-often-than-not lame, overpadded and a little cheesy. Writer Lauren Cochran goes out to the country to try and get past her agoraphobia,…
The Faculty (1998)
Herrington High School in Ohio has the usual groups of disaffected youths the jock, the goth, the geek, the prom-queen, the drop out etc. However they are not the only ones acting out of the ordinary the teaching…
Tomb of the Pistolero (1964)
1860 , Tom Bogarde (Jorge , or George Martin) , an academic young decides to go to Pearson City to find out the strange death his brother Jack (Todd Martin) . Along the way he saves a damsel in distress…
Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Three men looking for a hidden loot , they are : A cynic bounty hunter (George Hilton) going after the reward , a Mexican outlaw named Montero (Gilbert Roland) with a band of fanatic hoodlums (Ignacio Spalla, Riccardo Pizzuti, Jose…
I Live for Your Death (1968)
Pleasant Spaghetti Western with a Peplum usual , Steve Reeves , as starring and writer . An Italian production full of action , exaggerated characters, shootouts and lots of violence . This is the story of a man with an…
Anti-Trust Strikes Back
I have a tendency to sit back and to try to analyze things. I try to be balanced by looking both at the upside and the downside of things. I fully realize that there is a tendency to be both…
Flesh and the Spur (1956)
At the opening credits the viewer knew that this was going to be a low-budget film as the people appearing in flick came onto the screen in large case letters as if written on a neighbors typewriter. But even with…