No No Troma:Father’s Day in Australia
Australia has banned the release of North American horror comedy Father’s Day, about a man intent on avenging his father’s killing. The film was directed by Adam Brooks and produced by Canada’s Astron-6, with global distribution by Troma Entertainment. The…
The Manborg Embrace
If Halloween is about dressing up in strange costumes and creating questionable, gory entertainment, the zero-budget movie Manborg may be your best haunting season choice for 2012. After all, dressing up and acting out is what the local film collective…
The Night Child
After the softcore-thriller world of Super Bitch, director Massimo Dallamano went on to dabble in the dark world of Satanism and demonic possession with The Night Child – Italy’s answer to The Exorcist (though you won’t see child star Nicoletta…
Canuxploitation In London?
Canuxploitation is a film genre that encompasses B-movies made in Canada, especially those produced throughout the late 1970s and early 1980s to take advantage of government tax incentives. Often derided or outright ignored by Canadian critics and cultural historians, these…
The Rise Of The Zombies In Mexico
Looks like the zombie apocalypse has already hit Mexico City, Mexico. Last weekend, the hills of Mexico City were flooded with nearly 10,000 people, all in zombie attire, attempting to break the world record for largest organized zombie walk. Every…
La Notte dei Diavoli
Creepy, atmospheric, gory 70s Italian horror outing…but am I missing something here? RaroVideo has released The Night of the Devils (La Notte dei Diavoli), director Giorgio Gaslini’s 1972 vampire/vurdulak nightmare starring Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli (so beautiful), and Roberto Maldera….
THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X
What is The Ghastly Love of Johnny X? Is it science fiction? Is it a musical? Is it homage? Yes, yes, and yes. but above all it’s a completely unique, weird, wild, and wacky movie, from the unique, weird, wild,…
It’s Rough Being A Guerrilla
His shoe-string budget zombie movie Colin proved the hit of the international festival circuit in 2008 and won him such high-profile fans as Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese. But it was while shooting a robbery scene for his new film Magpie…
The Next Cronenberg
Exploding heads, techno-genitals, mutant offspring, a humanoid fly. Such are some of the monstrous images in David Cronenberg’s early “body horror” films, a la “Videodrome,” “Scanners,” “The Brood” and, of course, 1986’s “The Fly. ” Now Cronenberg’s 32-year-old son, Brandon…
The Bay Directed By Barry Levinson
Starring mostly unknown actors and shot entirely on consumer-grade (or lower) video, The Bay apes a hypothetical work of citizen journalism released on a WikiLeaks-style exposé site, documenting a fictional disaster that killed off most of the population of Claridge,…
The Monstrously Bad Guys
Tonight is Halloween. Tonight what you won’t see are kids dressed as any of the following movie evil-doers because, to be blunt, kids are far too smart to want to be any of them. In fact, just the thought that…
Suspiria
Suspiria(1977) is given its cult status in the USA partialy due to the extreme usage of colors. The colors in Suspiria(1977) gives it an artful flavor that makes the movie beautiful to watch. Argento uses the colors of blue, green,…
Dario
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk…
A Rodriquez Fire And Ice Remake?
Robert Rodriguez has revealed he has personally acquired the rights to Ralph Bakshi and Frank Frazetta’s 1983 animated feature “Fire And Ice” with hopes of adapting it into a live-action film through his Troublemaker Studios. “The awesome Ralph Bakshi and…
A Gun And A Donkey
This paella/spaghetti western of director Manuel Esteba is the proud owner of a unique record – it’s easily the one with the most remarkable differences between two available versions. The Italian edit (the one that was dubbed into English and…
Maestro Mario Bava
Mario Bava was born on July 30, 1914, in San Remo, Italy. The son of cinematographer/special effects designer Eugenio Bava, young Mario grew up surrounded by film. So strong was his father’s influence on him that Mario gave up his…
I Walked With A Zombie
How do you make an A-list film with a B-movie budget? You use clever writing, moody atmosphere and then some creative camera work. Result: a lot of fun. Two years ago I did a series on Halloween movies of the…
Mr. Bloody Valentine: George Mihalka
Your early producer Bob Presner told me that he met you after seeing a short film you did with your cinematographer Rodney Gibbons called Pizza to Go. That was our final student film, a 30-minute experimental satirical comedy based on…
Why I Love Night Of The Comet
Now, I’ll be upfront. I love “Night of the Comet.” It’s a movie that intrigued me 20 years ago, and I still get much pleasure from watching it today. I suspect that it is also a movie that will generate…