Miami Connection (1987)
Jeff (William Eagle) and Yashito (Si Y Jo) are cocaine runners who are close to dominating the world with their drug trade. There’s only one thing standing in their way, but it’s of monumentally awesome proportions: a rock band called…
Escape from L.A. (1996)
If movies were graded solely on their concept, Escape from L.A. would be an absolutely fantastic movie. The city of Los Angeles has finally been hit with “the big one” and fallen away from California. The anarchy escalating from the…
Invasion of The Star Creatures (1962)
This was one of those films that got a ton of play on the airwaves in the early 1970’s, usually on the “4am Movie” or one time, on the 7:30 PM “Channel 6 Big Movie” and still another on Creature…
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Surprisingly, King Kong’s second Japanese outing, 1967’s King Kong Escapes is a much more enjoyable affair. A co-production with Rankin-Bass to cash in on the success of their animated King Kong TV series, it plays at times like a feature-length…
Beast Of Blood (1970)
This the direct sequel to Mad Doctor of Blood Island. Its the fourth (or third if you don’t count the unrelated Terror is a Man) in the Blood Island saga. Literally picking up hours after the first film, the film…
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)
With NASA sending a space probe to Mars to check out if there’s any life on the Red planet it, or the robot in it, conks out after some 30 minutes, due to a surge of unexpected electricity through it’s…
City of the Living Dead (1980)
A priest commits suicide in order to open a gateway to hell. This leads to a series of grim events, including several supernatural zombies. City of the Living Dead is the second of Italian director Lucio Fulci’s four celebrated zombie…
The Cauldron Of Death (1970)
CAULDRON OF BLOOD is, with all it’s admitted faults, in reality a very important minor entry in the early stages of the Euro Horror boom years of 1967 to 1975 or so. The film’s main draw is Boris Karloff, brought…
Premonition (1972)
A sidestepped horror film mostly noted as an early effort from Alan Rudolph, PREMONITION is a hazy, mystical horror outing which involves a hippie music group taking residence in the pastoral outlands of the San Francisco Bay Area. Various interpersonal…
John Lechago’s KILLJOY’S PSYCHO CIRCUS – Now Available
OCTOBER COAST Press Release Full Moon Entertainment is bringing KILLJOY’S PSYCHO CIRCUS to DVD and Digital on December 1! The big top of terror will be available online at Full Moon’s Amazon page, along with their entire catalogue of new…
House of Wax (1953)
In 1900, in New York, Prof. Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is an artist, sculpting masterpieces in wax and exposing them in a small and non-profitable museum. When his partner Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) proposes a criminal fire to receive the…
Scream of Fear (1961)
As my title suggests, “Scream of Fear” (UK title) is barely known and this is hardly surprising since the film is very rarely shown in the UK and last time was put on at half past three in the morning…
House of Frankenstein (1944)
“House of Frankenstein” is salvaged by a great cast of seasoned performers who make this movie better than it should be, given it’s split “B” movie story. In a move to re-generate interest in its fading horror series, Universal gives…
The Blood of Fu Manchu (1968)
Christopher Lee returns in this fourth chapter as the evil Fu Manchu , this time has designed a fantastic gadget injecting gorgeous girls (Leni Von Friedl, among others) a venomous poison which reacts in a killing kiss . The beautiful…
Vanishing Point (1971)
Richard Sarafian’s 1971 film “Vanishing Point” is, for starters, a fascinating study of those persons anthropologists sometimes term “marginal men”–individuals caught between two powerful and competing cultures, sharing some important aspects of both but not a true part of either,…
Detour (1945)
It’s a tribute to Edgar Ulmer that “Detour”, made for about thirty thousand dollars, still keeps an interest with new fans who discover it. According to some comments, “Detour” has not been seen in this country in quite a while,…
Revolt of the Zombies (1936)
The film is set during World War I. A “French Cambodian” contingent had heard strange stories about zombification–supposedly Angkor Wat was built by utilizing zombies–and there are tales of zombie armies easily overcoming foes. Armand Louque (Dean Jagger) brings back…
Wild, Wild Planet (1966)
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…
A Town Called Bastard (1971)
Released in 1971 and directed by Robert Parrish, “A Town Called Hell” (originally titled “A Town Called Bastard”) is a Euro Western about a Mexican town in 1915, which is more of a stone fortress than a conventional Western town,…
Day of Anger (1967)
“Day of Anger” is an incredible western. Not only is it one of the 3 or 4 best non-Leone spaghetti westerns, It also has just about the best non-Morricone music score I have heard. Lee Van Cleef is at his…