The Beyond (1981)
L’Aldila/The Beyond(1981) is the film that brought interest in the cinema of Lucio Fulci. I became a big fan of his work after watching this movie. Have seen a good portion of his films since. The opening prologue is shot…
SPECTRE-A Review
Watched “Spectre” in the company of three frenetic 14 year old boys at the local cinema . Overall I quite enjoyed the film, but hey it’s Bond but it did have issues. It also did some things much better than…
Zombie Hell House (1981)
Quella Villa Accanto al Cimitero/House by the Cemetery(1981) is the first straight forward film for Fulci since Zombie Flesh Eaters(1979). Gets away from the dreamish themematics of his previous two films. Begins with the idea that this could be the…
St. Helens , Killer Volcano (1981)
This is a superior made for TV movie about one of the worst natural disasters in the history of North America. The film centers on the crusty old mountain man Harry Truman played by the fine actor Art Carney who…
Wishing for a Dream – Review
Succeeding in Hollywood is painstaking and grueling and Wishing for a Dream does an excellent job portraying a young couple trying to make it in the film industry. The movie is about up and coming actress Mika Andrews (Sara Malakul…
Ghostkeeper (1981)
“Ghostkeeper” revolves around a group of friends— two women, Jenny and Chrissy, and a man, Marty— who are spending their New Year’s Eve in the snowy Canadian Rockies. After stopping into a secluded store, they decide to head off for…
Frankenstein Island (1981)
“Frankenstein Island”. Whatever image this title may conjure up in your mind, just forget it, because the actual goings-on in this astonishingly bizarre sci-fi horror oddity are guaranteed to thoroughly rape your expectations. In fact, there’s very little that *isn’t*…
Galaxy of Terror (1981)
A spacecraft travels to a distant planet to rescue the crew of another space ship that has crashed. The craft has damages in the landing and needs to be repaired. Baelon (Zalman King) commands the rescue team formed by his…
Deadly Blessing (1981)
Deadly Blessing is one of Wes Craven’s lesser-known films, largely forgotten by all but the most avid horror buffs, but those who have thus far only sampled the director’s more celebrated titles should definitely make the effort to check this…
Satellite in the Sky (1956)
The Brits in the 50s seemed to have a distinctly different idea of proper pacing for their movies compared to American output from the same period.(I think that’s still true today). Most of the time, this makes British science fiction…
Evil Eye (1963)
Coming out in 1963, The Girl Who Knew Too Much is not as ground-breaking as other Mario Bava efforts but it’s still every bit as stylish and suspenseful. The plot of the film, convoluted and filled with twists and red…
Lust for a Vampire (1971)
“Welcome to the finishing school where they really do finish you” throatily growled the trailer to Lust For a Vampire, the troubled second film in Hammer’s Karnstein trilogy, following on from The Vampire Lovers and preceding Twins of Evil. Peter…
Batman: The Movie (1966)
If the later Batman films of the early 1990s, and then again in the late 2000’s, did anything at all, it was that they were made competently and intelligently enough to render a scene in which two fully grown adults…
FleshEater (1988)
Twenty years after he was immortalised on film as the cemetery zombie in Night of the Living Dead, actor Bill Hinzman directed and starred in Flesheater (released on DVD in the UK as Zombie Nosh!), a gory, low-budget tale of…
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969)
Following a long period of cheap-looking productions designed to play as double-features on their home turf, Hammer returned to premium quality horror with FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED, arguably the company’s finest hour, and certainly Peter Cushing’s definitive portrayal of the…
The Death Of The Multiplex
When I was a much younger man, my weekends were filled going to the movies. I was lucky that I lived in a major city that had over 15 downtown theatres. Frankly it was amazing, each auditorium had on average…
Count Five and Die (1957)
It’s spring 1944 with the allies planning to stage a massive cross-channel assault on Fortress Europe any day now. Fearing a major German counter response it’s decided to trick the Germans into thinking that the main assault will be directed…
Sand Sharks (2011)
Anybody who watches something so obviously meant to be ridiculous and then complains because it is ridiculous is probably the same kind of moron who lies in the sun and then complains that it is hot. As such, I suggest…
The Craving (1981)
THE CRAVING is possibly the most satisfying (if still flawed) Paul Naschy film I’ve watched so far: the fact that Waldemar Daninsky here originates from the Middle Ages gives the character a true mythic quality which is not possible with…
Dark Star (1974)
“Don’t give me any of that intelligent life stuff, give me something I can blow up!” Doolittle. Lieutenant Doolittle is in charge of ‘Dark Star’, a ship on a lonely mission to destroy unstable planets in systems targeted for colonisation….