The Being (1983)
This isn’t a magnificent movie, though it isn’t a bad one either. This is pretty much as average as they come. A year before Toxi the Toxic Avenger graced out screens there was The Being. This is a story about…
Nekromantik (1987)
The story concerns a young couple with a predilection for all things dead. This works out well for them, as the boyfriend works for a crime scene clean-up crew. As luck would have it, one day he comes across a…
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Dastardly no-goodnik mad scientist Dr. Who (deliciously voiced with lip-smacking plummy panache by Paul Frees) makes a gigantic robot replica of King Kong to dig for rare and precious radioactive ore that’s located in the bowels of the earth in…
Turkey Shoot (1982)
Known everywhere in the world except the U.S. as TURKEY SHOOT (there it was accorded the dumb aka of ESCAPE 2000) this is trash Oz film-making at its best! You gotta see this flick! A truck-load of ‘anti-establishment’ personnel are…
Barracuda (1978)
I was hoping for another corny ‘Jaws’ rip-off with this film, but after two unknown divers are killed in a long, drawn out, silent opening scene, the plot immediately changes itself into a land-based conspiracy thriller. The story is based…
Detention of the Dead (2012)
A perfect example of how you could ruin a gory start of a zombie flick into a love story. I have no problem to bring in love into horror but here it overruns the death. And that’s the major problem…
If You Meet Sartana… Pray for Your Death (1968)
It is very obvious why Sartana created an avalanche of sequels, only second to Django. Even if it looks like yet another tale about stolen gold, Mexican bandits and switching allegiances, Sartana feels (and is) different. Of course seen back…
The Grand Duel (1972)
The post above that states that this film was shot in English is only partially correct. Each of the characters spoke their own language, and the script was available in quite a few. How do I know — I am…
May God Forgive You… But I Won’t (1968)
When MacDonald is killed, Cjamango (George Ardisson) hunts down the murderers in a typical revenge story. Jack Smart (Peter Martell) drinks too much, doesn’t live up to his name and is killed quickly. His older brother Dick (Anthony Ghidra) gets…
Apache Woman (1976)
At some point someone should compile a survey of the 1970s “Injun Atrocity” sub-genre of adult themed Western exploitation films. A nasty lot, they can usually be traced back to the unprecedented popularity of 1970s SOLDIER BLUE. Which in itself…
The Big Gundown (1966)
This film is often referred to as “the best non-Leone spaghetti western.” That may very well be true. For me, it’s difficult to decide because there are a couple of others that I like about as much as this one….
Never Let Them See You Sweat, AMC
What I was hoping for was a consistent story. What I was hoping for was a collective industry voice that would say, “We have these challenges that need to be addressed and these are the measures we are taking in…
Dead Are Countless (1969)
In the beginning of “Garringo”, we see a young boy named Johnny whose father is shot by soldiers. Many years later, he learns how to shoot and puts it to bad use: he kills any army officer he meets for…
A Stranger in Town (1967)
Offbeat Western about a strange but deadly gunfighter and taking on a nasty bandit called Aguila and his hoodlums . The movie contains gun-play, action Western , chills , and bloody spectacle . Unknown to anybody else but himself ,…
Tough (1974)
Johnny is a mischievous kid. He tells the teacher he didn’t get his homework done because his mother just died. Of course, the teacher finds out that Johnny’s mother is very much among the living. Johnny’s antics become much worse…
Bucktown (1975)
As with almost all blaxploitation films, this one has nudity, violence and a lot of rough language. This is NOT, I repeat, NOT a film for little kids, the easily offended or house pets. Just don’t say I didn’t warn…
Darktown Strutters (1975)
DARKTOWN STRUTTERS is pure soul-crazed 70s entertainment at its maximum! I strongly urge all archivists of blaxploitation cinema to go out and hunt down this one-of-a-kind rarity, a blaxplo-comedy-musical that knows no bounds when it comes to absolute weirdness. Everything…
Cooley High (1975)
This movie seems to always be compared to “American Graffiti” and, given that both end in a similar “Where are they now?” montage, feature a high level of period pop music and are generally show teenagers running around, having fun…
Fast Company (1938)
This is simply a terrific movie. Done in the “Thin Man” vein, it is not a cheap imitation, it has a life of its own. Florence Rice and Melvyn Douglas have some real chemistry going on as Garda and Joel…
Fast and Furious (1939)
Joel Sloane, a lawyer, is visited by a friend, Mike Stevens, who wants to borrow some money from him to invest in his boss’ business that promises excellent return. Sloane, is reluctant at first, but relents because Mike seems a…