Blood of the Vampire (1958)
Decent Hammer imitation with a script by that studio’s chief scribe, Jimmy Sangster. Producers Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker competed with Hammer in the horror stakes during the late 1950s/early 1960s (with Berman usually doubling also as cinematographer) via…
The Shark That Killed New Hollywood
The movie blockbuster is the cornerstone of the U.S. Movie industry, and has been since the release of Jaws . The Blockbuster whether it be action/adventure, thriller, the western or romantic comedy, the blockbusters earning power is unequaled by any…
Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
Don’t Bother To Knock finds airline pilot Richard Widmark flying with more than the safety of his passengers on his mind to New York. He’s on a mission to confront Anne Bancroft who’s given him a ‘let’s call it a…
The Astro-Zombies (1968)
Demented Dr. DeMarco has figured out a way to create Astro-Zombies–that is, wildly gyrating actors wearing skull masks. His methods involve organs being removed–usually from lovely women, of course. The Feds want to stop him. Villains led by statuesque Tura…
Dementia 13 (1963)
Back in the early 60s, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was taking his first steps as a director, and after directing two “Nudie Cuties” (his very first two works), he began working with legendary producer Roger Corman as an assistant in…
The Leech Woman (1960)
olleen Gray, the leech woman of the title, was born in Nebraska, a farmer’s daughter, and she looked it, cream-fed, sort of, as fresh and pretty as a field of sunflowers. She really was active for only three or four…
Malibu Beach (1978)
Shy, but sweet and enticing Dina (winningly played with infectiously perky charm by the lovely Kim Lankford) starts her new job as a lifeguard at Malibu beach and immediately turns a lot of guys’ heads. Cool dude Bobby (likable James…
Witch Finder General (1968)
Matthew Hopkins was a self proclaimed Witchfinder who started his career in 1644 in Essex, England. In a three year career he is estimated to have killed between 200 and 400 “witches”. The Witchfinder General (The Conqueror Worm) is a…
Flesh Feast (1970)
roducer, Director and Film Teacher Brad Grinter was well liked in the Florida Exploitation film community, if only for the fact that as Grinter was a fully fledged nudist, naked women always seemed to be hanging around his office. His…
Lady Kung Fu (1972)
Korea, 1934. Three top martial arts school students — shrewd Kao Yu Ying (Angela Mao, everyone’s favorite petite firebrand), sensible Kao Chang (charming Carter Wong), and impetuous Fan Wei (liable Sammo Hung) — move to China to start their own…
Cheerleader Camp (1988)
Cheerleaders at a remote campsite training for a competition only to be killed off by one by one in this Friday The 13th clone with a mix of Porky’s. This is supposed to be a dead serious horror film so…
Abraxas, Guardian of the Universe (1990)
Anything starring ex-wrestler / former Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura gotta be worth your weight in gold. After appearing as support in such films ‘Predator’, ‘The Running Man and ‘Ricochet’, his first leading role happens to be in something rather lesser;…
Ghosthouse (1988)
Umberto Lenzi’s Ghosthouse just about has all the trademarks of a late era Italian horror. A haunted house. “Teenage” victims. Gore. Cheesiness. Bad acting. It’s all there, and it’s all good. Back in 1967, a crazy father discovers his cat…
Queen of Blood (1966)
t’s 1990 and earth has finally made its first contact with extraterrestrials on Mars. Which they have told earth through radio waves that they actually plan to visit earth. Although something goes wrong in their attempt and an expedition is…
Bloody Birthday (1981)
Bloody Birthday’ is one of those movies that surprisingly ages well enough to remain watchable nowadays. Not a masterpiece for sure, but still entertaining and surprisingly enough, it doesn’t really have a lot of unintentionally funny scenes. I know it’s…
Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Other than that, the first half hour of the movie is full of “lesbian” scenes”, (more like horny guy fantasy lesbian scenes) that seem to go on forever. I got bored. But after the endless lovemaking, the movie KIND OF…
Psych-Out (1968)
It was one of several ’60’s films to depict ordinary people losing faith with the materialistic world and joining the counter-culture, others include Peter Sellers in ‘I Love You Alice B.Toklas’, Bob Hope in ‘How To Commit Marriage’, and a…
The Land Unknown (1957)
This rip-roaring sci-fi adventure scores high marks in several categories. The story concerns four people whose helicopter lands in an unknown prehistoric valley, a freak temperate zone located thousands of feet below sea level in the Antarctic, kept warm by…
Madison County (2011)
Heading out to a small town in the country, a group of friends investigating a local legend of a vicious killer try to look past the spurned locals to get to the truth and find a more deadly version than…
The Drive-in Will Survive
Drive-in movie theaters are dinosaurs in this 21st-century age of multiplexes, megaplexes and the IMAX movie experience. They numbered in the thousands as their popularity rose in the 1950s and 1960s, but only about 400 are known to exist in…