Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972)
First, though, you need to know what I mean by “magnificent.” I LOVE movies that appear “dark” and “low budget” because it gives them a eerie dimension not seen in 21st century attempts at horror. Growing up during the early…
Summer Heat (1982)
One of unsung B-picture director Jack (“A Small Town in Texas”) Starrett’s most appealing and hence underrated features, this disarmingly sweet, big-hearted, beautifully well-observed and surprisingly moving seriocomic slice of blue collar life centers on one Dolin Pike (the always…
The Sender (1982)
An suicidal amnesiac(Zeljko Ivanek), with enormous telepathic power, is brought into a psychiatric hospital to determine what his identity is. The doctor over his care, Dr Gail Farmer(Kathryn Harrold) begins seeing her patient’s own nightmares, seeking to understand why he’s…
Saturday the 14th (1981)
Oh god, another horror spoof?! Yes, but you gotta love this one. I get the feeling that they made “Saturday the 14th” for fun, and cast Richard Benjamin and Paula Prentiss to give the flick a less than totally silly…
Frenzy (1945)
A sculptor’s wife goes missing and the weird occurrences in and around the studio end up requiring a medium to be brought in to reveal what had happened. Lets not beat around the bush the end of this movie is…
Bomber (1982)
Bud Spencer as Italian seaman and previous heavyweight boxer turned into coach and manager against experimented American boxers . This time Bud Spencer as Bud Graziano , a hustler and ex-boxer who left the boxing and helps Jerry (Cala) to…
Blood in the Streets (1973)
I’m a big fan of Italian crime flicks, but it has to be said that a lot of them are rather similar. That’s not the case with Revolver however! Some of these films go off on a bit of a…
Child Bride (1938)
This film deals with the subject of underage women (rather pre-teenage girls) forced into marriages with older men in the Appalachian mountains and the school teacher who is desperate to get a law passed to outlaw this procedure. She enlists…
Truckin’ Buddy McCoy (1982)
In a nutshell, Buddy is a child in a man’s body, drifting aimlessly from job to job. Then two things happen. First, he gets fired. Secondly, he wins a Mack truck in some kind of sweepstakes. This truck is boss,…
The Eighties: The Best Of Times, The Worst Of Times
The 80’s ….just the mention of this decade will bring a smile to the face of the most jaundice entertainment professional. A time when the film industry was in full blush, the multiplex worked and many great of downtown theatres…
Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
* You don’t really get what you expected watching “Terror of the Bloodhunters. Instead of lots of tall buxom and beautiful Amazon-looking women you get, almost throughout the entire movie,deep philosophical exchanges between the leading cast members. The story is…
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)
Citizen Toxie is, without a doubt, the finest Troma film to date. Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma team managed to make a sequel to a twenty year old movie that is not only more succesful than the original, but has…
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (1974)
Hammer’s last Frankenstein outing is one of their best; despite the great sadness that went in its production (inherent in the film’s overall effect but thankfully not swamped by it), the film emerges as a pretty solid and well-crafted chiller…
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
In 1934, during the boom of British cinema, businessman William Hinds, decided to enter the industry and create his own film company, “Hammer Productions Ltd.”, where he would produce several movies before being forced into bankruptcy due to the end…
The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)
“The Kiss of the Vampire” has one hell of an opening scene, but after that, the viewer must endure about thirty minutes of Dullsville as a newlywed couple arrives in a creepy European town and interacts with the strange, subdued…
Silver Bullet (1985)
The difference between this and the standard, cookie-cutter, grade-B monster/werewolf/e-mail-spammer horror flick could be a tutorial for playwrights, screenwriters and cinematographers. Instead of the tired horror-flick plot – monster terrorizes small town after killing some folks (usually with heavy-handed special-effects…
ZNation guest star Michael Anthony Hall – Friday 11-20-2015
With ten exciting episodes of Z Nation’s second season already aired, Friday’s episode is sure to entertain when Anthony Michael Hall guest stars as “Gideon,” the leader of a corporate retreat-turned-cult. In Corporate Retreat, the gang find themselves trapped in…
Creepshow (1982)
“Creepshow” is a unique, funny, and creepy horror anthology from Stephen King and George A. Romero. The film centers around five stories – consisting of a murderous revenge tale of a father on fathers day ; a redneck (played by…
True Legend (2010)
Chinese martial arts films have no lack of material to adapt, with folk heroes and legendary characters making that leap from history to film, with the latest being Ip Man, and we all know how well that turned out for…
OSS 117: Lost in Rio (2009)
This second OSS 117 is actually some kind of remake of “Furia A Bahia Pour OSS 117” made in the sixties with Frederick Stafford.But the stories are different ,only the location is the same.André Hunebelle’s work was entertaining ,but Hazanavicius’s…