Crippled Avengers (1978)
Right off the bat, the structure of this movie seems disjointed with a seemingly unnecessary flashback of an attack on the antagonists’ home, rendering the son an amputee. But this is a recurring theme in the director’s work: what do…
C.H.U.D. (1984)
C.H.U.D. is set in New York City where Flora Bosch (Laure Mattos) disappears, her husband New York police Captain Bosch (Christopher Curry) is obviously concerned. Captain Bosch knows that his wife isn’t the only person to disappear recently & a…
Ator, the Fighting Eagle (1982)
ATOR THE FIGHTING EAGLE was evidently rushed into production to cash-in on the success of CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982); versatile (if not exactly talented) and multi-purpose “Euro-Cult” figure D’Amato shrewdly (but, perhaps, unwisely since the result is just as dire)…
Crippled Avengers (1978)
Right off the bat, the structure of this movie seems disjointed with a seemingly unnecessary flashback of an attack on the antagonists’ home, rendering the son an amputee. But this is a recurring theme in the director’s work: what do…
X:The Man With The X Ray Eyes (1963)
o this writer, the film is Roger Corman’s best entry into sci-fi. Many of his 50s efforts hold a certain campy charm, with their low-budget effects – and this film is similar in that regard. It does not dwell on…
Foxy Brown (1974)
In 1973, the film “Coffy” made Pam Grier a star, a permanent icon of the blaxploitation films of the era, and a symbol of female empowerment in the face of racial tension. She also kicked a whole lot of tail….
The Killer Shrews (1959)
With their little beady eyes and murderous poison-tipped fangs flashing a wolf-pack of some 200 to 300 giant killer shrews have overrun an almost deserted island off the US Atlantic coast devouring everything on it in order to stay alive…
The Spotlight Shines on Gabriel Campisi
“I was asked how long I would try to succeed in filmmaking before I’d give up. I said giving up was not an option, and if I didn’t make it, I’d die trying.” –Gabriel Campisi. Fortunately, Campisi didn’t have to…
The Raven (1963)
This movie is loosely based around the famous Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name. However, I don’t think this is what the great literary genius had in mind when he originally wrote it; as Corman has turned the…
The Giant Claw (1957)
The Giant Claw is about a UFO report that turns out to be a giant bird, things turn sour when the bird begins to wreak havoc upon people. Being the buff on bad sci-fi movies that I am, I decided…
Upcoming soon – The Hollow
When a U.S. congressman’s daughter passing through a small town in Mississippi dies in a mysterious triple homicide, a team of F.B.I. agents descends to investigate, the team’s brilliant but jaded lead agent battling demons both past and present, as…
The City of the Dead (1960)
After listening to a lecture by Prof.Alan Driscoll, Christopher Lee, on the town of Whitewood Massachussetts back in 1692 where a local witch, Elizabeth Slwyn, was burned at the stake one of Prof. Driscoll’s students Nan Barlow, Venetia Stevenson, decided…
Nine Deaths of the Ninja (1985)
When German, wheelchair-bound terrorist Alby the Cruel (Dammett) uses his team of female soldiers to take a busload of Americans in the Philippines hostage, a team of special anti-terrorist agents are dispatched to save the innocents. Steve Gordon (Huff), Jennifer…
The Spotlight Shines on Pandie Suicide
Pandie Suicide has appeared in nearly fifty music videos of all genres, stars in many TV series, shorts and films, models in tattoo magazines, is an esteemed Suicide Girl (https://suicidegirls.com/girls/pandie/ ), and an accomplished journalist. Currently Pandie is on the…
12 to the Moon (1960)
Obviously dated, the ambitious sci fi adventure to the moon released nine years before American’s actually landed on the moon and eight years before 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) the classic technical space adventure, arguably the best of all time…
The Old Dark House (1963)
Just like Castle’s movie “Zotz!”, The Old, Dark House was yet another inane farce that easily proved just how clueless this guy was at directing Comedy (more so than he was with directing Horror). Once again (just like with “Zotz!”)…
War Of The Zombies (1964)
When Dalmatia’s tribute to Rome is hijacked and the legion guarding it massacred, the Senate sends a centurion (Ettore Manni) to find out what happened. Upon arriving in the distant province, he’s immediately thrust into a hotbed of political intrigue…
Infra-Man (1975)
For anyone who has a soft spot for cheesy Asian action pictures, this one has it all; pseudo-sci-fi, kungfu heroes, kungfu villains, Skull Warriors by the thousand, and a villain with one of the most classic names in movie history:…
Re-Inventing The Movies
The first movie I ever saw was “Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs” double billed with a Topo Gigio movie. I was four. I eagerly clutched my warm red and white box of popcorn, I gingerly sipped on the nectar…
Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
Troubled young guy Wesley Stuart (hysterically overplayed with eye-rolling aplomb by a then unknown and scrawny Gerald McRaney of “Major Dad” and “Simon & Simon” fame) suffers from terrible nightmares and experiences periodic blackouts. Meanwhile, people around Wesley keep turning…