Ticks
I am of the opinion that eighties monster movies were the best monster movies. I know the fifties is typically the popular choice, but the eighties had THE THING, THE OUTING, FRIGHT NIGHT, BRAIN DAMAGE, and more than I can…
Machete Does Not Kill At The Box Office
The Mexican master of disaster may have met his match, as ‘Machete Kills’ has been well and truly left for dead at the US box office. Despite a $20 million marketing campaign and a star-studded cast, the sequel to the…
Return to Nukem High
Return to Nuke ‘Em High: Volume 1 & 2″, directed by Lloyd Kaufman, is a hilarious, thoughtful sci-fi Event Film with themes ripped straight from today’s headlines: the contamination and degradation of the world’s food supply, rampant bullying and LGBTQ…
Five Quick Questions with Chris Ray
When you’re the son of the prominent filmmaker Fred Olen Ray, there’s no doubt you will keep the family tradition going. Chris Ray who was in a movie before his first birthday has emerged as a top director. He…
Dr.Black Mr. Hyde
One of Blaxploitation’s downbeat takes on horror, Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (its fun title and poster art aside) is a decidedly somber look at conflicting allegiances, class disparities and race relations. In the lead as award-winning Dr. Pride (no one…
Curse Of The B Movie Actress
Llloyd Kaufman’s Troma movies are difficult to categorise. You wouldn’t call them edifying – they have titles like A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, Throw Stephanie in the Incinerator and Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town. Then again, you wouldn’t call…
Rocketship X-M
To call “Rocketship X-M” a science fiction classic is due more to its release date (1950), its savvy ability to capitalize on the publicity for “Destination Moon”, and the appearance of actors who would later star in television as Sea…
2000 Maniacs
The strains of the knee-slappin’ “The South Is Gonna Rise Again” open Herschell Gordon Lewis’s campy 1964 gorefest “Two Thousand Maniacs!” as two cars full of northerners take a fateful detour into the Southern hamlet of Pleasant Valley. Little do…
For The Love Of Ed Wood
A Poughkeepsie native and film director responsible for “the worst movie ever made” will be celebrated at the Bardavon 1869 Opera House tonight. The Bardavon — an anchor of downtown Poughkeepsie — will host the launch of a fundraising campaign…
Low Budget….Wichita?
recently came across an interesting link on the popular social news site Reddit about a B-movie that was filmed in Wichita. Having been a fan of low-budget gems since childhood, I was instantly intrigued. The film is titled The Beast…
Five B’s From Robert Rodriguez
The San Antonio-born director, 45, is an acolyte of exploitation-style film (and Quentin Tarantino’s cinematic blood brother), taking B-movies mainstream with a trademark kineticism and bracing lack of shame. He’s back in theaters this week with “Machete Kills,” the unlikely…
New This Week On DVD
“THE PURGE,” Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey. A very promising B-movie premise becomes something of an afterthought in this gripping but somewhat underdeveloped thriller from writer-director James DeMonaco (“Little New York”), which presents an America that devotes one day a year…
Cinema Massacre
Every year around this time, I have a tendency to get sucked into watching even more spooky Halloween and horror films than usual. Earlier today, stumbling on Cinemassacre’s yearly “Monster Madness” segment, I started reflecting back on some of the…
It’s All Going Be Chinese
China’s richest man, property developer Wang Jianlin, raised the curtain on a planned 50 billion yuan ($8.17 billion) “motion-picture city” which he described as the biggest-ever single investment in the movie and television industry. Property developer Wang Jianlin, 58, founder…
Machete Kills
During his 2012 presidential campaign, Republican candidate Herman Cain rhapsodized about the fence he’d build on the U.S.-Mexico border: 20 feet tall with barbed wire, electricity, and a moat. “And I would put those alligators in that moat!” he cheered….
The 2013 Golden Cob Award Winnners
We are pleased to announce this years B Movie’s GOLDEN COB AWARDS For Excellence In B and or GENRE Movies Films released up to September 1st, 2013 were eligible for voting. Four different committees nominated films and film artist to…
Podcast: Bill Dever Talks About The 2013 B Movie Celebration On Saturday B Movie Reel
Bill Dever recently joined Kevin Bachelder on the Saturday B Movie Reel podcast to talk about The 2013 B Movie Celebration. You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by clicking on the play button at the bottom…
Del Toro Does Simpsons
Guillermo Del Toro, screenwriter and director who was the creative mind behind Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, The Devil’s Backbone and Pacific Rim, is trying a hand at animation this fall, where he will design the 2-minute-45-second opening sequence to this year’s…
Killers From Space — Cheesy 1950’s B-movie Sci-Fi
Fun trivia for any fans out there of cheesy 1950’s B-movie Sci-Fi, here is a review of Killers from Space, starring Peter Graves, from 1000misspenthours.com (That is, Misspent, as in 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, not Miss Pent. LOL.) Enjoy….
It’s the Invasion of the 87-year-old Producer!
Roger Corman would have a field day coming up with a title for this one. It’s about an 87-year-old man who refuses to yield ground to the behemoths that have invaded his home world. Corman, known for 60 years of…