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Month: May 2018

Blood Diner (1987)

This is one of the wackiest horror flicks you will ever find. It is rare and difficult to locate a copy but it is well worth the search especially for true horror buffs or those who have a penchant for…

Rocktober Blood (1984)

This is just another horror film that is really no better or worse than most of them made in the 70’s,and before. What makes this film interesting is the MUSIC done in the “on stage concert scenes and in the…

Terror in the Aisles (1984)

Documentaries about horror/ thriller movies are indeed my favorite subjects. I liked the selections this movie gave out. Donald Pleasance(1920-95) and Nancy Allen did a great job explaining the causes and effects of a thriller. Mr. Pleasance from the “Halloween”…

The Fall Of MoviePass And The Rise Of The Subscription Model.

For more than seven decades, everyone who’s anyone in the movie world and alot of people who aspire to be have migrated to the French Riviera in May for the biggest movie event of the year: the Cannes Film Festival….

Rest in Pieces (1987)

Back in the 70’s José Ramón Larraz was the director of some highly acclaimed exploitation masterpieces like “Vampyres”, “Symptons” and “The Coming of Sin”, but the respect and acknowledgment he obtained over the years abruptly came to an end during…

Deadly Manor (1990)

Director Joseph Larraz’s first venture into the slasher genre – Edge of the axe – was a fairly decent attempt with an interesting premise, plenty of gore and a likable if not immensely talented cast. I had high expectations for…

Evil Laugh (1986)

Some med students are having a get together planned by a close friend at some real estate he was interested in buying. It’s supposed to be a weekend of relaxation and fixing up the house. After the party arrives the…

Angels from Hell (1968)

Tom Stern plays a Viet-Nam veteran who comes home with the dream of forming the most powerful biker gang around. His “wild bunch” consists of such immortals as Smiley, Nutty Norman, Tiny Tim, and Angry Annie. Turns out most of…

Graduation Day (1981)

“Graduation Day” centers on a southern California high school where the track team’s star athlete dies during a race. Her Navy sister arrives in town after the event, and the remaining track athletes begin getting picked off one by one…

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972)

Despite a slow start, Amando de Ossorio’s Tombs of the Blinddead soon picks up and morphs into the exploitation highlight that you were no doubt expecting going into it. Naturally, it’s full of plot holes and dubious character decisions; but…

Hyperspace (1984)

Super cool, super funny and super uh…? Well anyway, really good spoof movie. The whole story is like taken from Star Wars IV only that it´s all wrong….Lord Buckethead is very cool. The little aliens are really funny. Special effects…

Psycho à Go-Go (1967)

“Blood of Ghastly Horror” first began life as an unreleased Al Adamson heist feature from 1964 titled “Echo of Terror,” then with new footage of go-go dancers and a brutal stabbing slipped out from Hemisphere Pictures in 1965 as “Psycho…

New Hollywood

It’s an unfortunate broken record hearing the annual statistics reporting the lack of women in Hollywood. The main problem with the lopsided numbers is that there are many women in the industry that deserve the same opportunities as men.  The…

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Silent Madness (1984)

Admittedly most contemporary teen slasher movies suffer from a lack of originality, but Simon Nuchtern’s film is truly an amassment of clichés, stereotypes, predictable plot twists and trite killings. It’s like our director first watched a dozen of other movies…

The Car (1977)

Some critics dismissed The Car as a Jaws on wheels, and it was also lost in the wake of Star Wars’ release pouncing any other films out at that time. The general audience was a bit befuddled by the more…

Demonwarp (1988)

A group of teens in a cabin in a woods are attacked by a creepy-ass Bigfoot monster, which kills a couple of them. The monster disappears into the night and the next morning they go on a search into the…

Street Trash (1987)

“Street Trash” tries so hard to be a cult movie with it’s nonsensical storyline, the over the top gore and violence and the weird characters. That’s the main problem with this film. Instead of being a charming little b-movie it…

2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)

A Mad Max-like rogue soldier is asked by the President of the new world, to go to New York (Which is of course a wasteland) and rescue the last fertile woman on earth, while on the mission he runs into…

Dr. Giggles (1992)

Very much to my surprise I enjoyed viewing this film and at times it broke me up with laughter and at the same time furnished plenty of blood and gore. Larry Drake,(Dr. Evan Rendell ),”Spun”,’02, gave a great performance and…

The Streaming Wars

Last weekend, alongside millions of fellow movie goers worldwide, I sat in my local independent movie theatre and watched the latest installment of the Avengers. My wife and I went with a couple, one of whom is a die-hard Marvel…