The Amazing Adventures Of Victoria Clarke
s movie studios tighten their grip on development, Hollywood producers must search for creative ways to bring their ideas to life, and many see internet crowdfunding as the future of independent story development. Film and Video projects are the most…
Steven Kostanski Builds A Better Manborg
Manborg is, simply speaking, one of the most bonkers cult flicks to come along in years. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a soldier is killed in battle with the evil Count Draculon and his hordes of Hell. He is then reborn…
B Movie Games
I make it a habit to stay away from Bad Games, but this week is an exception. I’ve got three strong picks of the “so bad, it’s good” variety. Brace yourselves! Enlarge “Mars: War Logs” (PC, coming to 360 and…
Streamageddon
They say that you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs. While this may be cold comfort to the thousands of Netflix customers who have recently been informed that they will no longer have access to their personally-designed…
Grabbing Attention Fred Olen Ray
Since moving to Hollywood from Florida in 1981 with less than $1,000, Ray has been nothing if not prolific, directing 30 features, not including the dozen or so films he produced (including “Step Monster” for Roger Corman and the upcoming…
Transylvania Twist
Transylvania Twist is a 1989 comedy film that parodies horror movies. Originally released by Concorde Pictures, this film is distributed on home video by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. In the film Angus Scrimm reprises his role of the “Tall Man” from the Phantasm…
Hamesima X
Its video incarnation eventually destined to become a stocking stuffer for those on Madonna’s Christmas gift list, the Israeli feature Hamesima X is a loopy sci-fi exercise that uses the teachings of the Kabbalah as a springboard for a metaphysical…
Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions. His…
B Movie Badass
Quentin Tarantino is back, and if you thought he had exorcised the spirit of exploitation cinema from his soul with the “Kill Bill” films, well, think again. His latest project is “Grindhouse,” a double-feature homage to sleazy 1970s B-movies, which…
Ladies and Gentlemen , Pete Spellos
Peter Spellos has been performing and making folks laugh as long as McDonald’s been selling hamburgers. He is a actor/comedian/denture wearer, voice over artist, stage director and author, whose career began as extra for a week on the dance floor…
The Night of a Thousand Cats
The Night of Thousand Cats is an experience. Not unlike the freakish weather we’ve been experiencing over the last few years, this film requires that a number of things align in it’s favor for optimum impact. Working best when viewed…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Fede Alvarez
Recovering heroin addict Mia and four associates head out to a remote location where the token geeky friend reads aloud from the Book of the Dead. The horrors of cold turkey are quickly usurped by the horrors of demonic possession….
Here Comes The Summer of 2013
2012 was a landmark year in many ways. With the release of “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the industry saw the true power of the superhero genre as it established itself as the new Hollywood…
Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 cult action film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road…
Witches and Hockey With Rob Zombie
With “The Lords of Salem,” Rob Zombie explores a world of supernatural horror as he tells the story of a Massachusetts woman who may be living among a coven of witches. The new movie from the rocker/filmmaker has more dread…
Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars is an American 1980 science fiction film directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and produced by Roger Corman. The film, intended as a “Magnificent Seven in outer space,” is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western…
Bait
Along with absurdity and poor taste, however, there’s a certain brutal B-movie brilliance in Bait. An average cross-section of Australian society finds itself in a beachfront supermarket on one terrible day: troubled dad and daughter, tense couples, two guys with…
Bruce Campbell: Life after Evil Dead
Now 54, and handsome in the fashion of a 1940s cigarette commercial, the great Bruce Campbell enjoys an odd class of fame. The world, sadly, throngs with too many people who couldn’t distinguish him from any random chisel-jawed supporting player….
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard (1976; Joe Dante & Allan Arkush) is at best a curio—conceived as a bet between New World honcho Roger Corman and producer Jon Davison (who later produced Airplane, Robocop and Starship Troopers), that Davison and then-New World trailer…
Giallo
Dario Argento’s films have always divided critical and audience opinions. To his supporters, he’s one of the cinema’s supreme visual stylists, his work further marked by a constant willingness to experiment with new technologies and techniques. To his detractors, there’s…