The Wicker Man
Sex, human sacrifice, a notorious bum double and gleeful ritual transvestitism all wrapped in four decades of conspiracy theories: movies don’t come more cult than The Wicker Man. It was dismissed as an ‘interesting failure’ (The Telegraph) on its 1973…
Vanishing Point
The movie director Richard C. Sarafian, who died last week, was a fascinating, immensely likable man with a long, mostly unlucky career. In the late 1950s, after bumming around New York University (where, as a lark, he took a screenwriting…
Damnation Alley
Throughout the beginning of the last half of the 20th century, multiple films have been made that were based off of novels that took place in dystopic wastelands after nuclear fallout. This was all due to the U.S. and Russia…
Robert Englund Appearing At This Years B Movie Celebration
In conjunction with the Hollywood Boulevard, this year’s special guest with be genre great Robert Englund For More information about the B Movie Celebration Please go to www.bmoviecelebration.com Robert Barton Englund is an American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director, best…
The trailer for Big Ass Spider
Following a debut at SXSW 2013 in the Midnighters section, Big Ass Spider, a Ray Harryhausen-esque monster movie where a massive spider attacks Los Angeles, is coming to theaters and VOD. The unlikely heroic duo of a blue-collar exterminator (Greg…
ENZO G. CASTELLARI
Many of Enzo G. Castellari’s classic movies were made over thirty years ago and I’ve seen them over and over again, with each passing viewing feeling just as fresh and powerful. Mr. Castellari exploded the Italian crime film movement in…
Black Rock
Ostensibly, Black Rock (2012) appears to present a gritty thriller via a noticeably female perspective. Directed by actress Katie Aselton (from a script via husband Mark Duplass) she is also one of the three main actresses whose characters form the…
What Is The B Movie Celebration?
Zombies. Lake creatures. Amorphous killer aliens. These and more can be found at seventh-annual B Movie Celebration when it comes to the Hollywood Boulevard Cinema in Woodridge Illinois, from Sept. 25 to 27. Get ready for a weekend of artistry…
Rachel Hunter And Piranhaconda
0 0 ShareThis Oscar Wilde once wrote, and I am paraphrasing, if a man ever has two earth-shattering Rachel Hunter experiences in the one weekend, then he is the luckiest man alive. I am that luckiest man. It was the…
The Colony
We’re all doomed. From the various ways the world will end to the horrors any survivors have to suffer through just to see another day, our fiction is filled with apocalypses and their after-effects, of man showing his nobility via…
Pickup on South Street
4 January 1999 In this excellent Twentieth-Century Fox film-noir, the metropolis is a labyrinth of despair in which scavengers and predators survive by living off one another. Brooding cityscapes lower over puny humanity in bleak expressionist symbolism. A prostitute has…
Escape From Zahrain
A minor but reasonably entertaining action-thriller, Escape from Zahrain (1962) is a quirky little picture. Its small cast is a strange mix of actors while its screenplay is unusually unambitious for producer-director Ronald Neame, who had just made two outstanding…
How Italy saved the western with A Fistful of Dollars
A half-century ago in Rome, a camera technician named Enzo Barboni walked out of a movie theatre. He’d just seen Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo, about an amoral samurai who manipulates two warring merchant factions in a small village, and he liked…
Quentin Tarantino May Play Roger Corman In New Biopic
There are few Hollywood legends as beloved and bizarre as B-movie kingpin Roger Corman. He’s a director and producer who, through his various entities, was responsible for releasing foreign movies into art houses (things by Godard and Kurosawa). He also…
ANNOUNCING THE SCHEDULE FOR THE 2013 B MOVIE CELEBRATION
Announcing the film schedule for The 2103 B Movie Celebration-Thanks Avery… FRIDAY October 25th. – 6:00 p.m. OPENING GALA – 7:00 p.m. THEATRE ONE – Short Film: “C.” [C 299,792 km/s]. [ 15 min. / U.S.A. ] Feature Film: Retro…
The Giant Behemoth
Behemoth, the Sea Monster (1959) is an American-British science-fiction film co-production. Originally a story about an amorphous blob of radiation, the script was changed at the distributor’s insistence to a pastiche of The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), though elements…
When The B Is Better Than The A
Two contrasting action movies – Riddick and White House Down – are not only examples of how less can be more, and vice versa, but how a B-movie done well can be better than an A-movie blockbuster done badly. B-movie…
The B Movie Diet
How is being a director like going on a diet? Both of them require commitment, cause lots of stress, and can result in dramatic weight loss. While chatting about his happiest movie memories, “Rush” director Ron Howard revealed the experience…
A Single Shot
Sam Rockwell is one talented, free-spirited dude, with one of the longest lists of bad movies no single actor deserves. Even in a dog like Seven Psychopaths, he managed to be nothing less than watchable. Unfortunately, hiding his face behind…
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses
Chris Nashawaty’s wonderful new book Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an homage to the “King of the B Movie”: Roger Corman, whose cheapo productions for American International Pictures and his own New World outfit, aimed squarely…