Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Deadbeat at Dawn is directed, written and created by Jim Van Bebber, a film student who decided to make a low budget feature film in the tradition of Evil Dead and other drive-in blockbusters that were hugely popular in the…
Dark Age (1987)
The story of a ranger and two local aborigines who are trying to stop Numunwari (a giant Salt-Water Crocodile) from causing further havoc in their local waters. Throw in some violent poachers and a side story with a love interest…
Thirst (1979)
ate Davis (Chantal Contouri), a successful businesswoman unknowingly descended from the notorious vampiress Elizabeth Bathory, is abducted by a cult of modern-day vampires with a view to uniting her bloodline with that of another upper-class vampire bloodline. The cult –…
The Cars That Eat People (1974)
First, let me note that there seems to be different versions of the film floating around on home video. A few reviews complain about poorly lit or dark scenes. Someone mentioned that there’s a bad pan & scan version floating…
Getting Over Hollywood
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That’s…
Wild, Wild Planet (1965)
Director Antonio Margheriti’s Italian sci-fi / mystery would be the first chapter of the Gamma One quadtrilogy. I have already seen the second addition, which was rather dull. A doctor practicing biomedicine under the protection of a private own employer…
13 Frightened Girls! (1963)
“13 Frightened Girls” hasn’t attained the cult status that William Castle’s horror films, such as “The House on Haunted Hill” or “The Tingler”, have attained, which is a shame. Maybe its because it lacks an actor with the star power…
Mr. Sardonicus (1961)
William Castle usually marketed his movies with gimmicks, and for MR. SARDONICUS the gimmick was “the punishment poll.” When the film played in theatrical release, audience members were issued a voting card, and near the movie’s conclusion Castle himself appeared…
Strait-Jacket (1964)
Like all William Castle films, the story of STRAIT-JACKET is slight, full of holes, and often silly to the point of absurdity. Long ago Joan Crawford came home to find her husband in bed with a floozie and snatched up…
The Spotlight Shines on Joseph Lawson
Joe Lawson is the master of visual effects averaging between a dozen to twenty films a year and has done every possible effect in all genres. Whether he’s the VFX supervisor or directing, each film is special and unique to…
The Tingler (1959)
The Tingler marks the second teaming for horror’s greatest actor – Vincent Price, and horror’s greatest showman – William Castle. This film was released later in the same year that their first venture – House on Haunted Hill – was…
Tower of London (1962)
Roger Corman is (in his way) a genius regarding making effective films on a relatively small budget. In the late 1950s and through the 1960s he basically followed Edward Wood’s “pioneering” in the use of name stars in his films….
Premature Burial (1962)
Generally considered one of the least successful of Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations; which has a lot to do with the absence of star Vincent Price (this is the only film of the eight he didn’t star in). Because the…
Tales of Terror (1962)
This Roger Corman adaptation of three Edgar Allan Poe stories is fun to watch, hard to take too seriously. The first tale, Morella, is the most sombre, featuring Vincent Price mourning the death of his wife, for which he blames…
Easy Living (1949)
Easy Living is not a light comedy, despite the presence of Lucille Ball, Jim Backus and Jack Paar. Neither is it really a sports movie, though it’s set in the world of professional football. Irwin Shaw wrote the novel on…
The Tomb of Love (1959)
The Indian Tomb was the second part of a pair of pictures directed by Fritz Lang, his first German productions since the 1930s, adapted from a screenplay he had himself worked on nearly thirty years earlier. The two of them…
Video Violence (1987)
Video Violence is one of those SOV horror films, the ones that started popping up all over during the late ’80s. For the most part they went unnoticed, and for good reason; most of them completely stunk. Yet where ever…
Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters (1982)
Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters (1982) was a project that Charles Kaufman and the L.A. Connection worked on. Troma bought the rights to a real bad Indonesian action film (shot in Panavision) and re-dubbed it. They made a terrible movie watchable,…
Pigs (1972)
For me, finding this little drive-in movie at the dollar store was like finding money in the street. I so love these exploitation “horror” movies from the 70s, and this fits neatly into what I like to refer to as…
Splatter Farm (1987)
have been watching obscure horror movies for years and years. I have seen many of the unknown classics, like WOODCHIPPER MASSACRE, BLOODBATH IN PSYCHO TOWN, and HORROR HOUSE ON HIGHWAY FIVE. But NO movie–no matter how crazy, no matter how…