Mongolian Death Worm
If you see a title like “Mongolian Death Worm” and begin to wonder what the movie could be about then you’re clearly not seeing enough terrible b-movies. Because, as I’m sure you already know, this film is about Mongolian Death…
Knightriders (1981)
Start with the idea of jousting like the knights did, but atop motorcycles instead. Turn that into a traveling show complete with rubber hammers and a Ren-Faire flair. Make this all the brainchild of a lunatic in love with making…
A Sound of Thunder (2005)
What exactly is the sound of thunder? If this movie is any indication then it’s the sound of moviegoers thundering towards the exit, demanding their money back. Yes, the movie is that bad. “Hey Johnny, how bad is it?” This…
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Once in a Blue Moon a Role and an Actor who creates the characterization and personality are a perfect match, a Marriage truly made in heaven. Such is so with regards to the young Andy Griffith and his screen part…
Anonymous Rex
Looked like it might be a fun scifi-monster movie—mutated dinosaurs living among humans AS humans? Nice spooky little shot of a normal-looking guy walking along, close up on his face, and one eye turns all yellow and feral with vertical…
Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things
Okay, I saw this when I was a kid in the 70’s, and most people who saw this as kids at that time didn’t use much of their upstairs hard drives to remember the lengthy build-up that is two thirds…
Within the Rock
I received this movie from a friend, claiming that it was a great movie I couldn’t afford to miss. I asked him what it was about, and he said the story involved rock aliens, which immediately attracted my interest. After…
The Supernaturals
Sigh…despite my many years of training in horror cinema and countless of previous bad experiences, I still get suckered into watching lousy movies because of their appealing and juicy looking VHS cover artwork! I knew absolutely nothing about “The Supernaturals”,…
The Kindred
It is ULTRA low budget, but you really have to admire how well they did with what they had. I thought for very low cost creature effects, the creators / directors of the film did an excellent job in making…
Deep Star Six
A secret underwater team are exploring the possibilities of underwater colonisation with the financial backing from the US Navy and in return for that they blow up an underwater carven so they can construct a deep-sea missile silo, though in…
Popcorn
Maggie, a film student at University, continuously wakes up with one bad dream after another involving some bearded wacko, which she records about on a tape, so to come up with some sort of screenplay. Her film teacher and fellow…
Shockwaves
A group of survivors off a boat disaster became stranded on an island- but that’s not their main problem. As now a hermit informs them that the island isn’t safe as there are invincible Nazis zombies that lay dormant off…
Syngenor
Not completely a direct sequel to William Malone’s 1981 “Scared to Death”, but “Syngenor” sees the return of Malone’s alien creation (this time there’s even more and a new creation to boot as well). As a low-budget, late-night b-grade offering,…
Friday the 13th (1980)
One of the difficulties in reviewing “Friday the 13th” is that like “Halloween,” the film has been imitated and ripped off numerous times, too often to look at it in a fresh light. As a matter of fact, this movie…
Black Christmas
Released and ignored in 1973, “Black Christmas” became a forgotten classic. The Canadian shocker was eventually re-released as “Silent Night, Evil Sight” in order to avoid confusion with the blaxploitation films of the time, but it bombed once again. In…
Seedpeople
You ever have that one horror movie when you were a kid that you thought was the scariest thing ever even when everyone thought it was dumb, and it probably wasn’t until your teens that you realized why it was…
The Crazies (1973)
The allusions to Vietnam come fast and heavy in The Crazies, Romero’s mordantly funny take on the chaos that ensues when a madness-inducing biochemical spills into a small Pennsylvania town’s water supply. When the military is called in to quarantine…
Tom Savini
Pittsburgh-born actor/SFX wizard/stuntman/director Tom Savini did a tour of duty as a combat cameraman in Vietnam, and has since acquired a remarkable cult following among film fans, primarily due to his ground-breaking SFX in the “splatter movie” explosion of the…
Skinheads (1989)
A small group of skinheads led by Damon (Brophy) are apparently tired of harassing elderly store owners, so they take a skinhead vacation to the rural mountains. When further harassment of the locals such as restaurant owner Martha (Bain) leads…
Five (1951)
‘Five’ is the sort of science fiction I enjoy: long on ideas, short on rayguns and F/X. That’s very likely why the movie flopped: most filmgoers seem to think that science fiction should have a big special-effects budget and no…