Gila Opens Tonight
The movie opens with a young couple parked in a bleak, rural locale pondering their future, A giant gila monster attacks the car, sending the young couple running for their lives. Chase Winstead , a young mechanic and hot rod…
From Bad To Worse
They’re the movies audiences love for all the wrong reasons – the cinematic flops that are now finding appreciative audiences at cult screenings. Once these films were slaughtered by critics; now they’re attracting viewers who laugh, heckle and applaud at…
Why Don’t You Play in Hell?
An alarmingly catchy toothpaste commercial is the only thing you’ll care to remember from “Why Don’t You Play in Hell?,” a tedious, over-the-top gorefest that finds prolific Japanese auteur Sion Sono veering into sub-Tarantino B-movie-pastiche territory. Relentlessly jokey, strenuously deranged…
Five Quick Questions with Jeremiah Kipp
For a moment let’s take a break from B Movie creature, slasher, slapstick, boob films and enjoy some B Movie shorts with filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp. Okay there is blood and boobs, but done differently than most B movies. He can…
Ginger Snaps
The first thing you need to know before you watch Ginger Snaps is that’s a real horror movie. That means genuinely unsettling, disturbing, makes-your-skin-crawl kind of stuff. And you’re plunged right into this from the start. The opening scene involves…
I Was A Teenage Werewolf
While it’s mostly considered just a campy B-movie these days, I Was A Teenage Werewolf was a big deal in the late 1950s, especially on the drive-in circuit. It made $2 million on a budget that ranged from either $82,000…
Getaway Wimps Out
And thus does a summer that started with a silly car chase picture end with a sillier one. “Getaway” has some of the elements of a good gear grinder — a B-movie where a car takes a pivotal role in…
Why I love … the first five minutes of Dead or Alive
Takashi Miike’s Yakuza thriller opens with a barrage of sleaze featuring cocaine, stripping and guns. It’s brilliant I’m slightly ashamed to admit how much I enjoy the opening scene of Dead or Alive, Takashi Miike’s violent Yakuza thriller. It’s essentially…
Gila Hits The Big Screen
Gila Opens Up This Weeks In Theatres Starts Thursday-Landmark, Peoria Illinois Jamestown 14, Florissant Missouri (St.Louis) Cinematheque South Glen Falls New York -Weekends only Sabal Palms Theatre, Port Lucie Florida Nova 6 Moline Illinois Whenever the topic of the remake…
Five Quick Questions with Joe Hollow
Joe Hollow is not just a filmmaker, he’s a musician and a painter. His films are not just horror, they’re art and even sexy! Several years back, he had a strong desire to do his first feature film and with…
Body Double
Boutique label Twilight Time recently added Brian De Palma’s 1984 cult fave Body Double to its lineup of limited edition Blu-ray releases. With only 3,000 copies available, it didn’t take long for the title to completely sell out. What all…
This Is The End
A 20-foot demon with glowing eyes, abyss-like fissures in the streets and funnels of blue light sucking the virtuous up to Heaven are signs of the Apocalypse – all while a motley crew of comics including Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel…
Starship Invasion
Made in the late 1970s, Starship Invasions was a fairly blatant attempt to capitalize on the resurgence of interest in sci-fi spearheaded by Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This obviously low-budget attempt may have unconvincing sets…
Q: The Winged Serpent
As if the thought of making a decently entertaining dragon movie weren’t enough of a challenge, the filmmakers opted for some hilariously shoddy stop-motion animation for the ancient flying lizard. Even for early 1980s standards, the work seen here is…
Moments From Strange Brew
This is a great week for beer-loving movie fans. Friday saw the opening of Edgar Wright’s The World’s End, which involves a nostalgic pub crawl featuring many pints being guzzled, and Joe Swanberg’s Drinking Buddies, about employees at a brewery…
Some Monster Movies Ideas
It takes great minds to come up with a movie as gloriously horrible as “Sharknado.” We know, because we tried. And failed. The B-movie maestros at Syfy welcomed a pair of Newsers into a closed-door pitch meeting to see how…
Devil’s Pass
Inspired by a real-life case that has, over the decades, grown into a hoodoo-laced old wives’ tale, “Devil’s Pass” offers its own fanciful spin on the 1959 “Dyatlov Pass Incident” (also the title under which the pic is being released…
The Struggles of The 21st Century Theatre
Greetings from fast-changing Portland. On your right, note the dozens of breweries and distilleries, none of which existed until the other day. On your left, take care not to provoke the bicyclists, who may control everything by the day after…
Fritz Lang’s Indian Tomb
Fritz Lang returned to Germany on the eve of the 1960s to direct this enchanted penultimate work, a redraft of the diptych form pioneered in such silent Lang classics as Die Spinnen; Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler.; and Die Nibelungen. Although…
Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie
Like many of you, I’m sure, my first encounter with ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ came via the Comedy Central cable channel in the early 1990s. The discovery was merely by chance, flipping through stations one night and coming across what…