Video Paradise
There are easier ways to rent a movie but for Jason Patrone, nothing beats the experience of visiting Video Paradise. The mom-and-pop video shop on the northwestern corner of Alma School and Warner roads with the flamingo logo and the…
Ice Soldiers
If you saw a festival of B.C.-raised director Sturla Gunnarsson’s three decades’ worth of films, you could be forgiven for thinking each was made by a different director. Sturla Gunnarsson His more than 40 titles start with the Oscar-nominated 1981…
‘Raze’ Jabs At Exploitation
Somewhere between squalid exploitation movies and Tarantino brashness, “Raze” is lurking, waiting to slug you in the face. In this assaultive film by Josh C. Waller, women are kidnapped, imprisoned and forced to fight to the death with their bare…
‘B’ is for beach and budget
ALL hail Sam Arkoff, who, with much less flamboyant partner James H. Nicholson, brought the low-budget B-picture into the modern age from 1954 to 2000 with the immortal American International Pictures. Home to director Roger Corman and creative hothouse for…
Frankenstein At The Movies
Much like the monster himself, Frankenstein’s screen history has had many disparate parts since Boris Karloff first lumbered into cinemas playing the character from Mary Shelley’s novel in 1931. With I, Frankenstein in theaters Friday, we talked with noted horror…
Tarantino Abruptly Abandons New Film
Just a little over a week after announcing the working title of his next western, Quentin Tarantino has shelved The Hateful Eight after learning that details of the script apparently leaked yesterday, Deadline reports. Tarantino additionally said he is now…
The Madness of Re-Animator
It had been over twenty years since I last saw Re-animator, so I was looking forward to re-watching this classic from the last great decade of horror, the 1980s. I was 17 when I first saw this low budget gore-fest…
Dario Argento
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk…
Terror at London Bridge
Jack the Ripper is back. It’s 1985. He’s killing people on London Bridge — the London Bridge that got rebuilt Arizona. But don’t worry, The Hoff is on the case. This is the barnstormingly ludicrous plot of Bridge Across Time…
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
uring the Golden Age of Hollywood, which began with the advent of the talkies in the late 1920s, movie studios released what were known as the B Movies. Paired with a full-length film to give the audience a double-feature movie…
Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead
The first Dead Snow was a cult favourite, and Wirkola has subsequently raised his profile by directing the 2013 Paramount release Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Nonetheless, this sequel will mostly be of interest to genre buffs. (It was announced…
Joe Hollow’s “The Family”
“Its hard for a family to stay together when killing is in their blood!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?[v=1LOjj4as51s] Trailer The characters, directing, story and editing grab you from the start. The acting is just psychotic enough to make them truly appear crazy without…
Mega Shark Vs Mecha Shark hits the red carpet
Fans of the horror genre should mark January 24 on their calendar, The Asylum studio will host a celebrity-studded cast and crew red carpet premiere of its latest over-the-top shark flick, MEGA SHARK VS. MECHA SHARK, starring Christopher Judge, Debbie…
Oscar Micheaux Pioneer
Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American to produce a feature-length film (The Homesteader (1919) in 1920) and a sound feature-length film (The Exile (1931) in 1931), is not a major figure in American film just for these milestones, but because his…
The Guest
Exploitation movies can be a hell of a lot of fun to watch. From the outputs of B-movie maestro Roger Corman (a man who’s career has now spanned over 60 years) through to the glorious schlock of Troma films with…
Young Ones Wows Sundance
A hot young cast, a dystopian future and a sci-fi angle may be the selling points of Jake Paltrow’s pioneering epic, but the new Hunger Games this isn’t. Instead, Paltrow’s feature, shot in the sweltering mountainous heat of South Africa…
Bad Girls From Mars
Bad Girls from Mars is a 1991 sci-fi comedy film starring Edy Williams and Oliver Darrow and written, produced and directed by Fred Olen Ray. Someone is killing off the female leads of the movie production “Bad Girls from Mars.”…
The Making Of Robocop
Next month will see the US theatrical release of Robocop’s remake, a film that had an estimated budget of $13 million dollars that went on to gross some $53 million in the US alone. If one movie from the 80s…
Fright Night (the good one) 1985
For young Charlie Brewster, nothing could be better than an old horror movie late at night. Two men move in next door, and for Charlie with his horror movie experience, there can be no doubt that their strange behavior is…
Elliot
When one thinks of truly great and legendary action cinema icons, names like Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee and Arnold Schwarzenegger instantaneously pop into one’s mind. However, for Elliot “White Lightning” Scott, the road to becoming synonymous with those names has…