The Wild And More Than Prolific Brett Kelly
As a director, Brett has had “an almost Roger Corman-esque career in Canada” (bloodsprayer. com) and has directed over 15 features, unprecedented for Canadian film makers. He has been called “Canada’s Duke of Doom” (Penny Blood Magazine) and “Canada’s Baron…
Bad Milo
While there have been some very successful gross out monster movies that inspire the imagination while at the same time turning the stomach (see all the amazing work of Frank Henenlotter!), it is admittedly a tough genre to make work….
100 Years Of The Orpheum
A staple for the performing arts in downtown Sioux Falls is celebrating a monumental birthday. 100 years ago this week, the Orpheum theater was first opened to the public. KDLT’s Phil McIlrath gives us a look back on the last…
Silent Running
In a future Earth barren of all flora and fauna, the planet’s ecosystems exist only in large pods attached to spacecraft. When word comes in that the pods are to be jettisoned into space and destroyed, most of the crew…
Saving Movie Theatres Through Gravity
This weekend’s two new releases provide a perfect example of the current divide in the movie going experience. I am speaking of course of Warner Bros.’ Gravity with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney along with 20th Century Fox's Runner Runner…
We Are What We Are
When making a scary film, there are only so many directions you can take. Characters, formulas and monsters are recycled again and again through the narrow, dimly lit echo-chamber that has become the horror genre. So it’s refreshing when one…
Cinema Wasteland to stalk Strongsville
Oh my gawd, it’s a gaggle of bloody freaks in a pool of movie geeks! Ah, no worries. For years, they’ve been getting along swimmingly in their own little “Cinema Wasteland.” Shrieking cretins, it’s the Cinema Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia…
I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)
This is my favorite B movie. I first saw it on Doc Shock’s Mad Theater out of Philly in the early 70s. Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the…
The Hideous Sun Demon (1959)
The late Robert Clarke appeared in a number of cult sci-fi classics including The Man From Planet X (1951) and Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), but the one he’ll be best remembered for is 1959’s THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON, which…
Horror House
Horror House is a brand new horror anthology from the Newlyweds of horror Kerry and Evan Marlowe. The film stars b-movie icon Lloyd Kaufman as Joe the Real Estate Agent who guides us through five different stories taking place in…
Godzilla Re-Emerges
Godzilla, the instantly recognizable, radioactive, B-movie monster with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, will be 60 years old when he stomps into theaters in May of 2014. Based on the iconic Japanese film series, Godzilla is…
B Movie Producer Passes
A.C. Lyles, a producer whose affiliation with Paramount Studios spanned more than 85 years, has died. He was 95. Lyles died Friday night at his home in Los Angeles, said his assistant Pam Gibson. His long association with the studio…
Sammy Terry Is Back
Old memories were shared and new memories were made Saturday night at Robe-Ann Park as Sammy Terry came to life for a new generation of Hoosiers while ghoulishly reversing the aging process on a legion of older admirers. More than…
The Lost Empire: Found with trailer launch
The new trailer from Polyscope. The Lost Empire, the picture that launched the career of Jim Wynorski. The film digitally remastered under the watchful of Jim Wynorski, Polyscope will be bringing this exploitation masterpiece back to screens this fall. After…
Enter The Dragon
Asian martial art films were being produced and were popular in Asia long before Enter The Dragon appeared. But this movie set the standard for the genre, and opened the door for a host of real martial artists who became…
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
American movies are messy, always shot so that you can’t actually see what is going on. I’m paraphrasing Ninja: Shadow of a Tear director Isaac Florentine, whose introduction to the premiere of his new movie at Fantastic Fest came packaged…
A Look Back At The Day After
The nuclear autumn of 1983 was arguably the tensest and most dangerous season of the entire Cold War. It involved at least two close calls. It was bookended by a diplomatic crisis and a destabilizing missile deployment. The popular culture…
Atlas Shrugged Off
Ladies and gentlemen, start your gloating: The producers of Atlas Shrugged, the critically derided, out-of-work-sitcom-actor-infested film “trilogy” based on Ayn Rand’s iconic Libertarian doorstopper, are begging in public. This Monday, the A.V. Club broke the news that they’ve started a…
CHESTERFIELD: Sci-fi film
Space – the final frontier has inspired sci-fi fans to venture into the world of film-making. But anyone thinking of a big-budget production in a Hollywood studio is from a different planet as this intergalactic adventure cost around £500 and…
“Woodland Heights” a 50’s style short film
“Woodland Heights” is a flashback to a 50’s horror B-Movie. The film was written and directed by Samuel Gonzalez Jr.. Currently Samuel is a full time filmmaker, but years back he was in Iraq and was awarded an Army Commendation Medal…