If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death (1968)
“If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death” (1968), directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Gianni Garko, William Berger Fernando Sancho, Sidney Chaplin(!) and Klaus Kinski phoning in a cameo role, has only one great thing going for it, and…
Reverend’s Colt (1970)
Spaghetti with Chorizo Western crammed with action , shootouts and lots of violence . An Italian-Spanish co-production with interior filmed at Roman Studios and outdoor sequences filmed in Madrid and of course Almeria, Spain . It’s full of action ,…
The Man Called Noon (1973)
This is an average Spanish/British/Italian co-production filmed of course in Almeria , Spain . It deals with Robert Noon (Richard Crenna), a gunslinger who has turned amnesiac. Helped by Rimes (Stephen Boyd), another gunfighter who has befriended him, he attempts…
Baseball, America And The Movies
Often allegory is used to exhibit a point of a perception, what follows is my attempt to do just that. Last week I attended a screening of Animal House at The Historic Artcraft Theatre. Four hundred people showed up, some…
Django Shoots First (1966)
At the beginning of the film, “Django” (Glenn Saxson) meets up with a bounty hunter called Ringo (Jose Luis Martin) who happens to be taking the body of Django’s dead father to town for a $5000 bounty . Django murders…
The Single Girls (1974)
“Dr. Phillip Stevens” (Wayne C. Dvorak) is a psychiatrist who has set up a private practice on a tropical island and caters to singles who are experiencing intimacy issues. His therapy mainly involves things like group encounter sessions, sensitivity training…
13 Nuns (1977)
Well, okay, so the film is basically a big lump of c**p. But it’s good c**p, ie the entertaining kind. And if you ever have the chance to see the film in a theater IN 3D, then SEE IT! Words…
Spaced Out (1979)
Spaced Out is a British sex comedy directed by Norman J. Warren, better known for his cult horror movies. As with most of Warren’s films, the cast is very small and the film is shot primarily on one set, in…
Savage Sisters (1974)
‘Savage Sisters’ comes from the same period as the Jack Hill led Filipino “chicks in chains” flicks of the early 70s ( see ‘The Big Doll House’ and ‘The Big Bird Cage’ for the best of the genre). Hill wasn’t…
The Glory Stompers (1967)
”The Glory Stompers” is hardly a classic-even in the ”Biker” genre, but it’s a decent, entertaining little flick from AIP. Dennis Hopper stars as a member of the ”Black Souls” motorcycle gang, who beat up rival ”Glory Stompers” member Jody…
The Born Losers (1967)
Tom Laughlin’s 1967 film The Born Losers is not what it appears to be; good-guy defeats out-law biker gang and saves young rape victims. On the contrary, Born Losers is Laughlin’s take on the war in Viet-Nam and the effects…
Requiem for a Vampire (1971)
This is not Jean Rollin’s best film, but it might be his most essential one for fans because it combines the moody visuals of films like “Fascination” and “Two Orphan Vampires” with the perverse softcore sex of films like “Bacchanales…
Hangup (1974)
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.Hangup, also called Hang Up and later released under the name Super Dude, is a 1974 film directed by Henry Hathaway….
Bolero (1984)
After years of being stuck at a strict boarding school, virgin Lida (Bo Derek) breaks free and plans on meeting a shriek who will take her sexual gift. After that doesn’t happen she heads off to Spain to try and…
The Clones of Bruce Lee (1980)
One of the crassest of an already crass genre was The Clones Of Bruce Lee (1977), a wildly episodic car crash of a film featuring not one but FOUR of Bruce Lee’s most prolific imitators: Bruce Le, Bruce Lai, Brice…
Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)
Chet Marco (Darrell Howe) is despondent after the execution of his big brother Duke, whom he idolized. Chet is the only one who doesn’t believe that Duke, a career hoodlum, committed the murder for which he was sent to Death…
Ambushing The Movies
In the late 1970’s Hollywood executives like Lew Wasserman saw the opportunity to hyper inflate the movie economy as a result of the releases of such blockbuster as JAWS and STAR WARS and began to re-invent the movie industry in…
Halloween II (2009)
Rob Zombie should have named his latest film “Kill-****ing-Everything,” as it would have given audiences a better idea as to what to expect when paying for a ticket. It also would’ve been a signal not to expect any shred of…
The Abomination (1986)
Lets start with the plot. We follow our hero, Cody, a thin and scrawny looking dude with 80s hair and awesome sunnies. Cody is a bit concerned about his mum, who is obsessed with one of those TV evangelists. His…
Women’s Prison Massacre (1983)
“Women’s Prison Massacre” is the last of the “Black Emmanuelle” series of films and this time director Joe D’Amato abandons his trademark sleaze for an attempt at an exploitation flick with a plot. Emmanuelle (Laura Gemser)has gotten a bit too…