B Movie Nation

Foundational Cinema

Year: 2019

Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)

A plane carrying a payload of Ecuadorian coffee beans bound for the US, plunges into a field in the struggling town of Finleyville. When rescuers discover that two survivors appear to be afflicted by a deadly plague-like condition, the townspeople…

Manfish (1956)

Lon Chaney Jr. is a hoot in this one, this time not really the major character, he rather just blends in. 3 treasure hunter in the West Indies are in pursuit of some gold and other treasure,, there is you’re…

Killer Workout (1987)

Best described as a cross between a splatter movie and a CHER fitness video (!), AEROBICIDE (as it’s known in the UK) tells the tale of a psychopathic nut that is killing the members of a fitness class one by…

The Castle of the Living Dead (1964)

This Gothic Horror dispenses with heaving cleavage, secret passages and all that jazz for a cautionary tale regarding trusting creepy ass Counts who hand you invitations to their similarly creepy castles, and, strangely even for a Euro-horror film, it has…

The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism (1967)

Recently viewed this little gem as “The Torture Chamber of Dr. sadism”. Originally released in the US and UK as “The Blood Demon”, while it’s German title was “Die Schlangengrube und Das Pendel”. An odd film that seemed to be…

Night Tide (1961)

Night Tide is an effective low budget horror that works mainly thanks to the surreal and creepy atmosphere. The movie somewhat unique as it handles a subject rarely seen in horror movies; that being the legend of the mermaid (the…

Evil Eye (1963)

The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) is director Mario Bava’s gleeful homage to Hitchcock; and one of the earliest examples of the Italian Giallo sub-genre of horror/suspense cinema that would go on to inspire an entire generation of horror…

The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)

Ragnoli’s film focuses on the travails of a group of five dance hall girls and their manager who, after defaulting on a hotel bill, find themselves bumping through unfamiliar countryside at night looking for late accommodation. Ignoring the warnings of…

The Dark Past (1948)

This film caught me by surprise to find out that William Holden starred in this film along with Lee J. Cobb in 1948, and found it quite interesting from the very beginning to the very end. Holden plays the role…

The Mini-Skirt Mob (1968)

Actress Diane McBain plays Shayne, the leader of a group of female bikers, who call themselves the Miniskirt Mob. Shayne’s ex-beau, rodeo star Jeff Logan (played by John Wayne clone Ross Hagan), dumps her to marry another woman. Crazy with…

Green Mansions (1959)

This must surely be the strangest movie that Audrey Hepburn made, though it’s not without its virtues. Directed by her-then husband, actor Mel Ferrer, the 1959 movie is a fanciful adventure story where Hepburn plays Rima, a nymph-like “bird girl”…

Floating Down The Amazon

I have always thought that Amazon would get the deep value for a theatrical release. I have seen what they have done in the past with movies like Manchester By The Sea or We Need To Talk About Kevin. As…

Night of the Demons 2 (1994)

Wow. This sequel moves almost completely away from the tension and atmosphere of the first movie but still, somehow, manages to be almost as good, thanks to some real kitsch moments and fun ideas. Angela, kind of head demon nowadays,…

The Headless Eyes (1971)

Long ago(the mid eighties, before it became chic to diss bad movies and glorify their ineptitude), I caught this freaky flick the way nature intended, on a late-night horror show on an independent TV station. Even then, before the advent…

Fantastic Voyage (1966)

“Fantastic Voyage” follows a surgical team of three scientists: Dr Peter Duval, the top brain surgeon in the country (Arthur Kennedy); Cora Peterson, his technical assistant (Raquel Welch); Dr Michaels, chief of the medical mission (Donald Pleasance), plus the skipper…

Crime Against Joe (1956)

John Bromfield is Joe in “Crime Aganst Joe” a 1956 B film also featuring Julie London, Patricia Blair, Joyce Jameson, Alika Louis, Rhodes Reason and Henry Calvin. Bromfield plays an artist who lives off of his mother (Frances Morris) and…

100 Degrees Below Zero (2013)

No redeeming value at all. Horrible effects, Soundtrack is probably the same from all Asylum films reused. Some fair actors with poor scripts … Two things I enjoyed… 1 – The Snow on windshield that looked like Soap flakes in…

Masters of the Universe (1987)

A corpulent hero named He-man , a veteran warrior (John Cypher), his daughter (Chelsea Field), a likable midget (Billy Barty) fight in Eternia against a vile villain named Skeletor (Frank Langella as a Darth Vader clone) in a fantasy/Sci-Fi about…

Rocking The Couch – Review

One sexual assault case is one too many and unfortunately there are quite a few currently under investigation or in trial.  The most notorious are the Weinstein, Cosby, Spacey, cases and there are more, but they are getting less coverage…

Waxwork (1988)

March 2007 | by ozthegreatat42330 – See all my reviews Not exactly an Academy Award winner here, but this film is just fun. Director Anthony Hickox set out to make a fun horror spoof and he succeeds very well at…