Stunt Rock
A faux documentary about real life Australian stuntman Grant Paige, STUNT ROCK garnered considerable attention in cult film circles earlier this year when a trailer for it appeared on the TRAILER TRASH vol. 1. And, truth be told, the trailer…
Planet of the Vampires
In the film PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, there is an undeniable creeping dread, a very real sense of terror, in every scene. Despite the obvious lack of money, Bava wrung some eerie, disturbing imagery out of his sf schlock piece….
Deadly Harvest
“To most of us, it came as a surprise. Not many understood. Too few cared enough to stop it. Then it no longer mattered how many understood or cared–it was too late!” One of Canada’s first eco-thrillers, Deadly Harvest…
Hustlers
A new trailer for crime thriller Hustlers has been released by Lionsgate UK. The film, which debuts as a straight-to-video release in the UK, is out now on DVD and Blu-ray. The film is the latest feature from acclaimed filmmaker…
The Quiet Ones
Paying homage in style and theme to the vintage horror movies of the 1970s, “The Quiet Ones” is the latest stylish shocker from Hammer, the recently reactivated classic U.K. studio imprint. Mixing creaky haunted-house and exorcism tropes with a nod…
Road Games
It’s amazing how many pleasant treats you’ll find on TV Friday nights at one o’clock in the morning. Take “Roadgames” (or “Road Games”) for example: The Hitchcockian story of a trucker delivering meat across Australia who becomes entangled in a…
Miracle Mile
These are the end times … for the Hirshhorn’s exhibit Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950. To help send off this exhibit, the Hirshhorn brings you Disasterthon!, an all-day program (from DVD, I presume) of disaster movies including The…
Android
Androids… automatons that are created from biological materials and resemble humans…from Fritz Land’s 1927 classic Metropolis to Ridley Scott’s 1982 masterpiece Blade Runner, the notion of artificial life becoming more human than human has long been an interesting and somewhat…
The Warrior and the Sorceress
The Eighties. VHS Hell. Somebody made the big buck with exploiting certain structures of genre cinema and within a year the b-industry was at hand providing two shelves of rip-offs for your local mom-and-pop rental limbo. Not only the usual…
A Touch Of Sin
The films of Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke can be challenging, punishing experiences. His 2000 breakthrough Platform addressed the effect of Western culture on Chinese performing troupe in the 1980s, but anyone looking to that description for a movie that delighted…
Flash Gordon (1980)
After a plane crash in extreme weather, Flash Gordon and his travelling companion Dale Arden after abducted by Dr Zarkov to help pilot his spaceship to confront what he believes is an attack from space. Once in space Flash comes…
St.Valentine’s Day Massacre
It’s incredible to think that this film, Roger Corman’s major studio debut, and THE GODFATHER (made by Corman alumnus Coppola) were made within five years of each other. They could be decades apart, in look, in sensibility, in impact. Whereas…
Teenage Cave Man
This is a strange caveman movie, as the men are mostly clean-shaven or sport very well-trimmed beards and look nothing like we’d assume cave people would look like. The worst example is young Robert Vaughn, who looks almost exactly like…
Deathdream
Bob Clark was such a fantastic and visionary filmmaker during the early 70’s and directed no less than three very important and hugely influential horror movies in a row. Unfortunately, he reverted to making lame & mainstream comedies during the…
Grab a Piece Of That Old Sharknado
An audience member wearing a shark themed hat blows up an inflatable shark while attending a midnight screening of the U.S. cable television network Syfy film “Sharknado” in New York, August 2, 2013. The campy, low-budget TV disaster movie about…
Bug (2006)
It’s difficult to discuss William Friedkin’s “Bug” because, like his 1973 classic “The Exorcist” before it, it relies on atmosphere, not events. One can only go so far in stating the synopsis because it is a film that demands you…
Are You Ready for an ‘MST3K’ Comeback?
Wired ran an amazing oral history of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” and almost lost in its depths was a quote from creator Joel Hodgson, who mentioned the possibility of the B-movie-mocking classic coming back in an online format with a…
Review:Zombeavers
If Sam Raimi and Jim Henson had dreamed up a movie together … well, it wouldn’t have looked very much like “Zombeavers,” though you can tell that’s the target director Jordan Rubin was vaguely aiming for with his well-meaning but…
Not Quite Hollywood
Why!? What!? How!? Where!? For 100 astounding minutes the breakneck documentary Not Quite Hollywood mounts a staggering assault on your common sense. Tracing the rise and fall of Australian exploitation cinema from the early-70s to the late-80s, Mark Hartley’s…
Razorback
Razorback is one of the best Australian horror/action movies ever made. The direction is dazzling, the cinematography is truly remarkable and the cast is brimming with quality actors. Mysteriously, no one seems to care. There is no denying that Razorback’s…