Savage Beach (1989)
Savage Beach is hardly a great departure for director Andy Sidaris, yet another cheezy adventure featuring his stock-in-trade heavily armed, big breasted babes, heroic hunks and despicable bad guys; but although it’s still a long way from a work of…
Space Girls in Beverly Hills (2009)
Bad in every respect, Space Girls in Beverly Hills is the absolute nadir of ego-driven, no talent film making. All concerned are clearly having a great time but it should be illegal to inflict such suffering on a paying audience!…
Stuck on You! (1982)
This low budget “B” romance comedy is crude but it has moments of brilliance. The real find here is Mark Mikulski, a big brawny guy with a handsome boyish face playing a very dumb cluck who works in agribusiness…that is…
Tales from the Crapper (2004)
Once upon a time, Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman gave former Playboy Playmate of the Year India Allen a quarter of a million dollars to make two features shot on “crappy digital video” and starring leggy cult queen Julie Strain….
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, but wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale, though, he got introduced to “B” pictures and the works of Roger Corman. Lloyd later got the opportunity to…
The Toxic Avenger (1984)
For those that don’t know, there are intentionally “bad” movies, and then there are intentionally bad movies; “The Toxic Avenger” is the latter. Troma Entertainment is the undisputed king of bad b-pictures, but the 1985 cult hit “The Toxic Avenger”…
Malibu Hot Summer (1981)
Blah!! I love Troma. Terror Firmer is my favorite movie of all time. I love low budget movies. But this is too horrible for words. I won’t call it the worst movie of all time for 2 reasons: 1. I…
Vincent Price
Despite his lasting association with horror films, Price started out as a character actor. He made his film debut in 1938 with Service de Luxe and established himself in the film Laura (1944), opposite Gene Tierney, directed by Otto Preminger….
Little Dead Rotting Hood – Press Release
This past February, Cinedigm and The Asylum announced a deal that entailed at least a dozen “high concept” films to be produced over the next three years. One of the films in the deal is Little Dead Rotting Hood which…
Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
There are two schools of thought regarding ‘Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein’. The first holds that the movie represents the nadir of the Universal Monsters cycle, with three once-great monsters reduced to playing second-fiddle to a couple of Laurel and…
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
THE MUMMY’S TOMB (Universal, 1942), directed by Harold Young, the third installment in the Mummy series, the second to feature Kharis and the first starring Lon Chaney Jr. as the living creature under wraps. A sequel to THE MUMMY’S HAND…
Revenge of the Creature (1955)
Fairly good sequel of “Creature From the Black Lagoon” has the Rita II traveling back to the Amazon Basin to capture the Gill Man who survived in the earlier film from his would-be-captors or executioners. Getting the Gill Man trapped…
Millenials and The Movies
Movie Reality Check Reality can be very cruel sometimes. About four weeks ago I visited a drive-in theatre in Spencer Indiana. The drive-in was beautifully laid out, great projection and best of all a fun and well appointed concession stand….
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
One must pity the Wolf Man. Marked not only with the pentagram, but marked to never have a sequel that was all his own. A real shame, considering that even the likes of the Mummy got ‘four’ sequels. Universal begins…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
After seeming to have been killed at the end of each prior installment (with no explanation in this or the prior sequel how he survived), the Gill Man is now residing in the Everglades of Florida. Wealthy scientist Jeff Morrow…
The Black Room (1935)
The Black Room: 7 out of 10: In the Tim Burton film “Ed Wood” Martin Landau’s Bela Lugosi complains about his rival Boris Karloff continuing to work even though he played Frankenstein which required only grunting under heavy make-up as…
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
There are a lot of reasons why this 1940 sequel is better than the original INVISIBLE MAN. In the first movie, the Invisible Man was a dilettante, a haughty scientist who shot himself up with the invisibility drug “for kicks.”…
Trans-Atlantic Tunnel (1935)
THE TRANSATLANTIC TUNNEL is a sci-fi film set in the near future. The story is about a joint American-British effort to build this tunnel. Additionally, the toll this takes on the men (in particular the chief engineer) and the behind…
Tower of London (1939)
Not really a horror film, but a uniquely sinister and highly compelling history lesson, this late 1930’s Universal production brings together a marvelous cast and tells a rather loose interpretation of William Shakespeare’s famous play “Richard III”. It’s once again…
Raiders from Beneath the Sea (1964)
RAIDERS FROM BENEATH THE SEA is a resolute B-movie, shot on zero budget and with little in the way of action, incident, atmosphere or indeed decent plotting to recommend it. The storyline sees a gang of criminals deciding to come…