Sole Survivor
Writer / director / editor Thom Eberhardts’ feature directing debut is a nicely realized, grim and spooky little shocker worth viewing for horror aficionados hoping to find good lesser known films from decades past. It’s got plenty of atmosphere, a…
Biohazard: The Alien Force (1995)
Triton Indutries has created a genetically-engineered creature using DNA from human sources. During the course of the experiment, however, the host mother carrying the mutant escapes from the laboratory compound, giving birth shortly thereafter. The intellient “baby” beings hunting down…
The Body Snatcher (1945)
One can’t help admiring Val Lewton and his crew at RKO, working on tiny budgets, but producing miniature gems. It’s like painting a masterpiece on the head of a pin. Robert Wise was his director here but the credit goes…
The Terror (1963)
Jack Nicholson is wandering Napoleonic officer Andre, who finds a lovely female named Helene(Sandra Knight)who has the uncanny ability to vanish as she so wishes. He follows her into a pounding ocean, only to awaken in the bed of a…
Dick Shawn
An unusual comic performer, Dick Shawn appeared on film, TV and the stage in such hits as The Producers and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. One of his most memorable roles came in 1963 as…
Fearless Frank (1967)
Starring Jon Voight and chubby comic actor Severin Darden, FEARLESS FRANK is an obscure pop morality play gone wrong. Receiving somewhat limited release, it quickly gravitated to infrequent television showings, via American-International Television. The story concerns Darden’s Doctor, who creates…
Berlin Express (1948)
This spy thriller which is set in the period just after the end of World War 11, depicts in documentary-style, the level of devastation, turmoil and political intrigue that was prevalent in Germany at that time. An assassination, a kidnapping…
The Leopard Man
Dark and creepy film based on the Cornell Wollrich novel “Black Alibi” about a leopard on the loose in the desert and towns of New Mexico. With deep and disturbing psychological overtones that strikes more fear in the hearts of…
‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ Remake
If you were a teenager of the ’90s like myself, then you likely have a spot in heart for I Know What You Did Last Summer, the horror movie your entire high school likely turned out to see, starring four young…
The Raven (1963)
This movie is loosely based around the famous Edgar Allen Poe poem of the same name. However, I don’t think this is what the great literary genius had in mind when he originally wrote it; as Corman has turned the…
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
If there is such a thing as an epic comedy, a sprawling lavish technocolor landscape of gargantuan humor, It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World is it. It is truly an American comedy, a junket along the California coast replete…
Dirty Little Billy (1972)
Watch Dirty Little Billy back-to-back with Young Guns for a testimonial to how little faith you can place in Hollywood to give you an accurate portrayal of history. In the latter we have William Bonney, aka Billy the Kid, portrayed…
Way… Way Out (1966)
Jerry Lewis does less of his wacky character here, and tries playing it straight, not for gonzo laughs. He’s nearly laid back compared to Robert Morley’s curtain rattling performance as Jerry and Connie Stevens “first married couple on the moon….
Our Friend Jon – Documentary
Making films was Jonathan Hernandez’s dream and he pursued that dream while living with Sickle Cell Anemia. Jon along with his three friends, who also have difficult challenges in their lives, was going to make a short film. As Jon…
Syfy’s ‘Z Nation’ draws 300,000 torrent downloads
With the Season 5 premiere of ‘The Walking Dead’ just weeks away, excitement centering around the zombie genre has peaked yet again. This past weekend saw the release of ‘Z Nation’ on SyFy, and if the piracy tracking numbers…
Val Lewton
Despite the fact that the budgets during his glory days at RKO were minuscule, Val Lewton has become an outstanding example of the movie producer as auteur, leaving a mark on his “B” horror movies of the mid-1940s that is…
Dementia 13
Back in the early 60s, filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola was taking his first steps as a director, and after directing two “Nudie Cuties” (his very first two works), he began working with legendary producer Roger Corman as an assistant in…
EXTRATERRESTRIAL
The filmmakers call themselves The Vicious Brothers, and they’ve called their film “Extraterrestrial.” That should be enough information to give you a good idea of whether or not you’ll dig their new movie. If you’re searching for subtlety, don’t come…
20 Overlooked 70s Thrillers
The 1970’s were a great decade for thrillers, as production code restrictions had been lifted in favor of a ratings system, allowing “R” rated films considerable leeway in the amount of sex and violence that could be included. Armed with…
Samurai Cop 2
Last we left the proposed Samurai Cop sequel, all we knew was that star Matt Hannon was definitely alive and available. With that critical piece in place, pre-production on the movie has apparently started in earnest: Not only is…