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Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)

Tongue-in-cheek slasher spoof, made back-to-back with the previous installment, Unhappy Campers, from director Michael A Simpson and writer Fritz Gordon, has serial killing transsexual Angela Baker(Pamela Springsteen)assuming the identity of Maria, a street kid she plows through with a garbage…

Bloody Pom Poms (1988)

The plot is rather predictable and you don’t need psychic vision to know what it’s about after seeing the box cover and title. I’m actually going a long way by saying this movie has a plot. After a group of…

Hell Night (1981)

“Hell Night” is a fun little 1981 horror film from the producer of “Halloween”. The plot is as follows – Twelve years ago, a man savagely murdered his wife and three of their deformed and disabled children, leaving only one…

Pieces (1982)

After seeing a little kid hack up his mother with an ax (and the subsequent arrival of the police who have no reaction whatsoever to the woman’s severed head lying in a closet), we jump to “forty years later” at…

Intruder (1989)

The greatest low budget horror film ever is “The Janitor”, but “Intruder” certainly ranks up there as one of the all-time greats. (You can argue that such films as “Evil Dead” are low budget, but they don’t have the amateur…

Maniac (1980)

Maniac is one of those hard to define flicks. Although, it would seem easy to lump this into one category because of the subject matter, this is actually a hard movie to categorize. It is not really a horror film…

Voodoo Dolls (1990)

Voodoo Dolls may not be a franchise entry, but it’s also not much better than those reviled releases, despite an interesting pedigree. Based on the novel The School by Harriette Vidal and Ed Kelleher (the latter of whom also penned…

You Know What Will Save Movie Going….The Drive-In Part Deux

In my previous post I presented the conclusion that the American Drive-in will save the movie going experience globally. I stand by that conclusion, but let me refresh the factors that lead me to that conclusion; 1. Day and date…

Red Blooded American Girl (1990)

Like many of its nu-gothic contemporaries, Red Blooded American Girl tries to re-invent the vampire legend for the 1990s. Thankfully it manages to do it without the token scene inside a darkly lit goth club, but a muddled plot makes…

What Will Save Movie Going……The Drive-in

The major motion picture studios are being sued in Europe by EU anti-trust investigators. Before you start dancing the quick step and yelling well it’s about time, dig into what it means. The studios — Walt Disney Co., NBCUniversal, Paramount…

Up from the Depths (1979)

A seaside community is besieged by a giant shark like creature that threatens the local serenity. Greedy resort proprietor (Wolfe) sees a marketing opportunity and invites all and sundry to hunt down the perpetrator for a booty in cash and…

Maniac Cop (1988)

To be honest, I absolutely love trash like this! Maniac Cop is a film that clearly isn’t too caught up with trying to establish itself alongside the more professional efforts of the horror genre, and instead simply revels in it’s…

The Asylum and Sharknados’

The Sharknado phenomenon again thrilled the world with Sharknado 3. Fans of B movies and fans that Sharknados’ are the only B movies they know of apparently have Sharknado 4 to look forward to. After the first Sharknado, The Asylum…

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Samurai Cop (1991)

Written and directed by one Amir Shervan, SAMURAI COP is the kind of cinema I live for. An action picture so wrong headed and mixed up that it is hard to believe anyone kept a straight face while making (or…

Rollergator (1996)

A very nice and funny independent production, a road movie on Rollerblades: Sandra Shuker plays a young woman who finds a talking baby alligator (I’m not a baby, I’m almost twelve)who is running away from a fair market owner (Joe…

Swamp Shark (2011)

SWAMP SHARK stars the original BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, Kristy Swanson as Rachel Broussard, the owner of the Gator Shack restaurant located right next to the swamplands of the Atchafalaya Basin. She runs the restaurant with her younger sister Krystal…

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…

Sharktopus

This is not a horror or an action sci-fi movie. It is a comedy, but not your normal kind of comedy that you are used to seeing. There are no crazy characters or silly jokes. The real joke is in…

Mexican Werewolf in Texas (2005)

Contemplating graduating from High School, Anna Furlough, (Erika Fay) Miguel Gonzalez, (Gabriel Gutierrez) Rosie, (Martine Hughes) and Jill Gillespie, (Sara Erikson) try to find something meaningful with their lives stuck in a small Texas town. When the town is suddenly…

Bad Moon (1996)

At the start of the movie “Bad Moon” Janet,Mariel Hemingway, is harassed by this two-bit shyster Flopsy, Hrothgar Mathews, who’s trying to make a quick buck by inciting Janet’s and her young son Brett,Mason Gamble, handsome smart and courageous German…