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Month: August 2016

Beach Party (1963)

This 1963 movie was a prequel of sorts to the 1964 “Bikini Beach”, using many of the same characters and some continuation of story lines, like Eric Von Zipper and his RATZ motorcycle gang. But Avalon and Funicello, even though…

The Slumber Party Massacre (1982)

First film of the Slumber Party Massacre series, isn’t to imaginative when it comes to creating story, but was a fun gory ride. As in many slasher flicks released shortly after the Friday The 13th/Halloween films. The story features a…

Big Ass Spider (2013)

A monster film plenty of impressive scenes , frenetic action and humor . A giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampage the city of Los Angeles . When a massive military (commanded by Major Braxton : Ray…

Stranger Things….Nostalgia And The Millennials

Okay, for better or worse the Millennials have become our largest demographic base of consumers. In America they have easily overtaken the baby boomers and represent 69 million consumers. Lose them…you lose your business. My big concern for the exhibition…

The Wrath of God (1972)

This is a Zapata western set early XX century on the overlong Mexican civil when happened the confrontation from Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata against Porfirio Diaz and later on , against Carranza and Obregon . A misfit group formed…

Horrors Of Spider Island (1960)

Manly and ruggedly handsome Gary and his sweet and shrewd girlfriend Georgia are taking a team of dancing girls down to Singapore. Too bad their plane catches fire and slams into the ocean at full speed. Miraculously, Gary, Georgia and…

Ace High (1968)

Eli Wallach plays Cacopoulos, a generous bandit who gives away all he steals to those less off than he is. That is, until he steals $300,000 from bounty hunters Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy (Terence Hill and Bud Spencer) who…

Vampryes

This movie doesn’t leave an awfully big impression but it still is some good fun for the fans of the horror genre and vampire genre in particular. The movie has a splendid visual atmosphere which is mainly thanks to the…

Fear No Evil (1981)

Fear No Evil, the low budget debut from director Frank LaLoggia (Lady in White), is one strange little film: made during the golden age of the slasher but inspired by such films as The Omen, Carrie, and Night of the…

Dawn Of The Dead (1978)

‘Dawn of the dead’ may lack the pulverising immediacy of ‘Night of the Living Dead’, but it gains in exhilirating, epic scope. It is one of the best films of the 1970s, a reckless, hubristic, over-ambitious masterpiece whose excess is…

WITCHULA adds Kane Hodder to cast

As Marcus Bradford’s WITCHULA gets closer to production, there’s big news constantly being announced. Most recently is that Kane Hodder has officially joined the cast.  Here’s the official Press Release:   HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – Aug. 8, 2016 – PRLog —…

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Class of Nuke ‘Em High (1986)

Class of Nuke ‘Em High is one of Troma’s best loved and most seen films. This film helped to define the Troma formula that crap addicts the world over would grow to love – gory violence, gratuitous nudity and black…

Coffy (1973)

Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a ‘black pin-up queen’ during the early 70’s. It is apparent after watching this film that no one remembers this for the bad-acting and…

Tales From The Crypt (1972)

The early 70’s were golden years for the British horror industry… Hammer produced their last goodies, while there was another company who specialized in making the so-called `horror-omnibuses’… During a reign of approximately 10 years, Amicus brought forward anthologies going…

The Asylum (1972)

Guided by a genuine musical score, a young doctor is driving towards an asylum for the `incurably insane’…This is the fourth horror omnibus by the specialist production company Amicus. `Asylum’ is determined and effective horror, done without too much humor…

Regional Movies…..Big Box Office

One of the major issues, the American theatrical exhibition industries has is its addiction to large Hollywood Blockbusters. It’s fortunes rise and fall on the exhibition of fewer and budget engorged films. Box office numbers are slipping and slipping badly….

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

Despite the fact that women in prison films are famous for sex and sleaze (two of my most favourite things to see in movies), I have to say that I’m not a big fan of the genre overall and it’s…

Eyes Of A Stranger (1981)

A series of gruesome sex murders is plaguing a coastal community of Miami and the police seem to be well behind the eight ball. Jane, a local TV news reader urges viewers each time a murder happens to ring up…

Half Human (1958)

It is a very unfortunate thing that Toho has decided to pull _Jû jin yuki otoko_ from its catalog based on Ainu lobbyists. Had Akira Ifukube scored the film, rather than Masaru Sato, he might have said something against it…

Black Frankenstein (1973)

The 70’s blaxploitation horror craze hits its entertainingly sleazy nadir with this supremely trashy flick that somehow manages to be oddly endearing in its very low-grade cheesiness. Noted scientist Dr. Stein (stolid John Hart) and perky assistant Dr. Winfred Walker…