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Month: December 2020

The Take (1974)

I’m giving this movie a high/er mark because it is VERY unique! In fact I’d give it higher than an 8, but everything MUST have a flaw…the ‘8’ is actually like a ’10’…or ’11’ on an amplifier…or “ludicrous speed”, heh…

Pink Motel (1982)

Do not go into this expecting a riotous comedy, because a few chuckles are all you will get. Do not go into this expecting to see Phyllis Diller and Slim Pickens a lot, because they are criminally under used. What…

Cleopatra Jones (1973)

It deserves to be seen because it features the incredible Antonio Fargas, as a mob little boss, with cool clothes and hilarious jive talking. In my opinion Antonio is a great actor, each time i saw him i was stunned…

Bamboo Gods and Iron Men (1974)

The Jeffersons’ honeymoon night in Hong Kong will be troubled by a number of people wishing to get hold of a Buddha statuette that the husband offered her when window-shopping that day. When the going gets rough, it helps that…

Little Cigars (1973)

This movie doesn’t fit neatly into any category. It has elements of comedy, including slapstick, puns, sexual innuendo, and “witty” lines, but also contains foul language, brutal murders, robberies and assaults. Added to this lack of focus is terrible pacing….

A Letter To Movie Theater Owners

This is going to be more than rough. The ride that theaters are on now is tough, more tough than any they have faced before. It is bad enough waging a war of survival on one front but having to…

Mean Johnny Barrows (1975)

Drummed out of the US Army for slugging his CO Capt. O’Malley, Aaron Banks, Johnny Barrows, Fred Williamson, drifts into town looking for a job ending up instead beaten and robbed by a couple of homeboys as soon as he…

Gymkata (1985)

From the producer and director of Bruce Lee’s seminal martial arts film “Enter the Dragon” comes this martial arts low-point that decided a deadly combination of gymnastics and karate was the formula for a brilliant new action film. US Olympic…

Return of the Killer Tomatoes! (1988)

Even though I’ve only recently saw this yesterday,it is most certainly the greatest B-movie comedy ever made,and the most important part of Killer Tomato history,since many characters here went on to be on the TV show,most of the characters from…

Crypt of the Living Dead (1973)

“Crypt of the Living Dead” is an extremely low-budgeted Spanish production that centers on the resurrection of a malicious vampire queen after being asleep on an island for nearly 7 whole centuries. Directors Julio Salvador and Ray Danton sure as…

Rocktober Blood (1984)

ROCKTOBER BLOOD, one of the myriad of glam metal horror flicks from the mid-to-late-’80s (BLACK ROSES, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL NIGHTMARE, HARD ROCK ZOMBIES, etc.), is possibly the worst out of all of them. It’s a D-level slasher with only one…

Slash Dance (1989)

This movie was nothing like I expected from what I read in a horror movie guide before watching, which stated the movie consisted of alternating dance routines and brutal murders, but this description is simply wrong. The first twenty minutes…

Slash Dance (1989)

This movie was nothing like I expected from what I read in a horror movie guide before watching, which stated the movie consisted of alternating dance routines and brutal murders, but this description is simply wrong. The first twenty minutes…

Satan’s Storybook (1989)

I love anthology horror movies. I’ve seen almost of all of them, from excellent (Creepshow, Tales from the Darkside)to mediocre (Twists of Terror) to completely wretched, like this. I only saw one other anthology horror movie with only 2 stories,…

Cemetery High (1988)

Cemetery High is part of a trio within the Full Moon catalogue. Director Gorman Bechard and much of the crew and cast worked on this and before it both ‘Psychos in Love’ and ‘Galactic Gigolo’ for Full Moon. Basically a…

Caged Fury (1983)

The best thing about my DVD version of “Caged Fury” is the tagline: “Alone they are dangerous….together they are deadly”. If only the movie lived up to it! (by the way, the picture quality on the DVD is on par…

Ghost Fever (1986)

I agree with many other here that this movie is SOOOOOO BAD it is good. You will laugh unintentionally at the horrible trainwreck this movie is. Its shot badly, acted badly and the “script” is atrocious. They tried to jump…

Day of the Outlaw (1959)

Underrated Western with some genuinely unusual features. As a long-time fan of Westerns, I’ve seen only a handful hardy enough to film in the mountains in winter. But the results here are riveting, especially in grainy b&w. Those bleak snow-scapes…

Hell’s Belles (1969)

Hells Belles started off pretty adequately, and as it went along it turned out to be one of the better biker pictures I’ve seen from AIP. It probably wont be remembered much years from now, and one reviewer who said…

School for Unclaimed Girls (1969)

Eccentric mod drama with several silly plot points and archetypes for characters. It is part psychological thriller, part soap opera, part women-in-prison film, part romantic drama, part nudie flick. The highly-strung Nicki (Madeleine Hinde) is haunted by guilt over the…