Hammer Gets Its Scare Back
It has been dismissed over the years as cheesy, cheap and laughable but, as has been the case on many occasions, Hammer Films have had the last laugh. They boast a back-catalogue that is to horror movies what The Rolling…
An Evening In The Room
Last Sunday I was lucky enough to nab one of the few tickets for the screening of everyone’s favourite B-movie, The Room. This wasn’t a normal showing that you might find at some underground theatre. The jack-of-all-trades writer, director, producer…
Riz Ortolani
Riz Ortolani, an Italian composer of dozens of film scores, whose Grammy-winning instrumental melody featured in the 1962 film “Mondo Cane” evolved into “More,” the celebrated anthem of love covered by sensuous crooners around the globe, died on Jan. 23…
Killer Lampreys
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water. Looking to get in on the campy “Sharknado” phenomenon, Animal Planet has set its own horror film from The Asylum — the same people behind “Sharknado” —…
Brian Trenchard-Smith
Brian Trenchard-Smith is an Anglo Australian film and television director, producer, and writer, with a reputation for large scale movies on small scale budgets, many of which display a quirky sense of humor that has earned him a cult following….
Hannie Caulder
I saw this again after more than 30 years, and was prepared for a campy, laughable Western-parody, as so many from the Spaghetti Western Era are…especially anything at all starring camp queen Raquel Welch. I was rather pleasantly surprised. Yes,…
Black Christmas (1974)
Long before Jamie Blanks turned popular urban legends into a theme for his routine slasher franchise, director Bob Clark took one of the most vigorously touted of those fables and created a genre staple that would become the forerunner of…
Mickey Rooney Dead At 93
Mickey Rooney, who spent nearly his entire life in the show business, died today. He was 93. Rooney had been in ill health for quite some time. He was one of the most famous child actors in entertainment history. He…
Happy Birthday Roger
Listen up everyone! It is Roger Corman‘s 88th birthday today. And you should care, because he is an amazing guy. He made all those great early-1960s Edgar Allan Poe adaptations with Vincent Price that Richard Matheson wrote. And he did…
5 underrated Cannon films from the 1980s
Menahem Golan and Yoran Globus, remember those names? Back in the 1980s, during the heyday of video tapes and action stars like Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Dudikoff and Sho Kosugi, you simply could not escape avoid the Golan-Globus…
Going ‘Commando’ With Mark Lester
By 1985, Arnold Schwarzeneggar was a household name, but not yet a mega-celebrity. Director Mark L. Lester explained, “He’d done The Terminator, he’d done Conan, but he wasn’t really an action star.” It was their madcap action flick Commando that…
I Married a Monster From Outer Space
1958 Who made it: Directed by Gene Fowler Jr. With Tom Tryon, Gloria Talbott. Audience appeal: 10 and up Once upon a time: It’s normal for a newlywed to be a little uncertain, a little nervous, a little confused, yes?…
Five Quick Questions with Two Chick Pix
“TWO CHICK PIX” Presents… Get used to seeing and hearing that because there will be many great films coming out from Two Chick Pix in the near future. The company started up in 2012 by the lovely actresses Jessica…
Cat Girl
Cat Girl from 1957 was the first horror film role for Barbara Shelley, the film being a loose remake of Jacques Tourneur’s 1942 classic Cat People. Here however, the action takes place in England as opposed to Manhattan. Directed by…
Ghost Ship
Creepy and exciting movie about some shipwrecked lead to remains of a deserted ghost ship that’s been missing for more than 40 years , since WWII, it is packed with good actors and slick direction . The film concerns about…
“The Infected” Press Release
PRESS RELEASE – “The Infected” Chainsaw to the Leg, LLC Starring Helenna Santos: Filipino American Actress Stars in Horror Film Written by: Barry Morgan Story by: Helenna Santos and Barry Morgan Los Angeles – Writer/Director Barry Morgan’s (Arcana) new short…
In Darkness We Fall
Spain’s young actors have had a miserable time of it in recent years. Among other unpleasant fates, they’ve been turned into man-eating zombies (the [REC] series), trapped inside a shrinking room (Fermat’s Theorem), and been holed up overnight in a…
The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
‘The Adventures Of Barry McKenzie’ started life as a satirical comic strip in ‘Private Eye’, written by Barry Humphries and based on an idea by Peter Cook. McKenzie ( ‘Bazza’ to his friends ) is a lanky, loud, hat-wearing Australian…
Five Quick Questions with Taylor Scott Olson and Livingston Oden
“After finding an old storage locker filled with his family’s history, James Erikson begins a journey to discover the truth behind a mysterious piece of land in the small town of Solitude.” Filming has recently wrapped up for Taylor Scott…
Rock And Roll High School
The movie is just plain fun….maybe more fun for those of us who were kids and fans of “The Ramones” around the time the film was made. I’ve watched the film over and over, by myself and with friends, and…