Dogs of Hell
Independent star / producer Earl Owensby 3D fable “Rottweiler: Dogs from Hell” is a trashy, but mildly fun cheap-jack little animals run amok horror enterprise. I saw this one when I was only a kid and certain scenes had stayed…
FearNet Consumed
It’s the end of the road for thriller, suspense and horror-themed FEARnet. Comcast has bought out its partners in the joint venture — Sony Pictures Entertainment and Lionsgate Entertainment — to take 100% ownership. Following the transaction, which closed this…
Busy As A Zombeaver
The Tribeca Film Festival starts this week, and the downtown movie-thon is one of my favorite goings-on in New York City. So, in honor of watching movies instead of watching the stock market, I’m going to play a game that…
Coffy
Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a ‘black pin-up queen’ during the early 70’s. It is apparent after watching this film that no one remembers this for the bad-acting and…
Seabo/Buckstone County Prison
(There are Spoilers) Earl Owensby is Seabo the mysterious half-breed, his father is a White European and mother a Native American, tracker and bounty hunter who has a talent of appearing and disappearing just at the right time when you,…
Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold
Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone reprise their roles as Alan Quatermain and Jesse Huston in “KING SOLOMON’S MINES”. This time around, the quest is on to seek out a ‘Utopian’ society that has only been talked about, but never seen,…
THE ART OF PORNO MUSIC
At this point in the great American experiment, porn has firmly embedded itself in the culture. James Deen, whose media ubiquity reached a tipping point with his starring role in The Canyons, is this generation’s Ron Jeremy, except he doesn’t…
Empire Of The Apes
Pennsylvania is a huge state. Between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, is the same distance as from Philly to Boston, which crosses five states! And while the urban centers keep PA voting blue nationally, the local governments are a good slice of…
God’s Gun
Now HERE is an odd egg — a Spaghetti Western filmed in Isreal, with actual acting by Lee Van Cleef (who is usually relegated to the traditional Lee Van Cleef role of the aged wizened gunslinger). GOD’S GUN is a…
Weird Western
John Michael McDonagh puts a gun-toting priest at the heart of new film ‘Calvary’, says Alan O’Riordan RELAXING with a drink in Dublin’s Merrion Hotel, film director John Micheal McDonagh says “the film is almost a western, in a way….
Horror in Vancouver
Back in 1997 I went on the set of the Vancouver-shot action-horror flick Deep Rising on assignment for Fangoria magazine. I chatted with director Stephen Sommers and actors Treat Williams and Famke Janssen. The movie wound up sucking but, hey,…
High-Kick Angels
The trailer for upcoming action film High-Kick Angels was released yesterday. The action-packed trailer features your not-so-typical Japanese schoolgirls beating the crap out of a bunch of bad guys. High-Kick Angels comes from writer and producer Fuyuhiko Nishi, who has…
The Vanishing Schwarznegger
We’re failing Arnold Schwarzenegger. We’ve currently got the Austrian oak putting in the best work of his entire career and audiences have abandoned him. Arnold’s three post-Governorship films, “The Last Stand,” “Escape Plan” and “Sabotage” — his role in The…
4D Movies Soon to Make Their U.S. Premiere
Regal Cinemas’ L.A. Live Stadium 14 multiplex is slated to feature the first “4D” movie theater in the United States. Regal inked a deal last month with the Seoul, Korea-based CJ 4DPlex to install the company’s first Stateside 4DX system…
Z Nation
Syfy has ordered a 13-episode zombie series from The Asylum, the company behind the cable channel’s hit 2013 B movie Sharknado. Titled Z Nation, the post-apocalyptic horror series is set three years after a zombie virus ravaged the country, as…
12 Monkeys Gets A Series Order From Syfy
While Syfy can’t be completely forgiven for diving into a black hole of B-movie creature features, the network is thankfully reverting back to the genre that spawned its original name. They’re headed into the future (and also the past, and…
The Last Days On Mars
I had high hopes for The Last Days On Mars. All of the signs were good. In the United States it’s distributed by Magnet Releasing, owned by that creepy overdog Mark Cuban but still importing a nice line of eccentric…
Son of Django
In spaghetti westerns names can be as deceptive as the lip movements of the actors. The name Django in the title usually means there’s no Django in the movie. Is this different for the son of Django? The first thirty…
Pit Stop
Pit Stop, a 1969 collaboration between B-movie king Roger Corman and director Jack Hill (renown primarily for his work across a number of Blaxploitation titles), represents something of a dream pairing for trash cinema aficionados. With its intriguing Faustian-like plot,…
‘Angry Video Game Nerd’ movie
“Years ago when I was making movies with a small group of friends, not a lot of people saw them. I always felt, ‘wouldn’t it be nice if more people could see these,’” he said. In May 2004, he got…