Warner Does Netflix
Warner Bros. opened up its Warner Archive Instant service to the public this week, giving fans of vintage titles of the studio unlimited streaming access to movies and TV shows for $10 a month (hat tip to Engadget). It’s an…
Fire With Fire
Fire with Fire is a B-movie revenge thriller that reworks every possible cliché of the genre. The film’s production is aware of this; and David Barrett’s direction wears this proudly. Barrett, a former stuntman who worked in a multitude of…
Jess Franco RIP
Jesús “Jess” Franco – director of nearly 200 films, father of the 1960s Spanish horror boom and father of several generations of filmmakers – has died in Malaga of heart complications, at the age of 82. I don’t think you…
Launching Chainsaw Maidens From Hell
Chainsaw Maidens From Hell is SVG Films’ first project, an original script combining elements of horror and comedy, “an updated take on the classic story of a boy who becomes a knight to battle evil monsters.” It’s written by Matt,…
Wolf Cop
The horror genre remains one of my favorite genres and frankly its become a bit old hat. Often we have to go to foreign films or low budget horror to find filmmakers who are trying to do anything original. Wolfcop…
American Hercules:Steve Reeves
Born in Montana on January 21, 1926, actor and bodybuilder Steve Reeves moved to California at the age of ten with his widowed mother. He cultivated an interest in bodybuilding while in his teens; by the time he was 17…
Night Of The Lepus
You know what they say about bunny-rabbits and procreation, right? Well, this delightful and typically stupid early 70’s creature-feature shows that it is true! Killer bunnies are coming! What starts as a seemingly intellectual and serious-toned ecological flick about a…
Ms. Julie Newmar
She was born in Los Angeles as Julia Chalene Newmeyer, the eldest of three children born to Don and Helen (née Jesmer) Newmeyer. Her father was head of the Physical Education Department at Los Angeles City College and had played…
Uwe Boll
Hollywood often complains about box office slumps. They blame piracy, they blame DVD sales, they blame anyone and anything but themselves. You see Hollywood’s a bit like North Korea, if they ever admitted that the regime they run was flawed…
Night Slaves
Night Slaves is based on a novel by Jerry Sohl, a veteran TV writer for Twilight Zone, Alfred Hitchcock Presents and Outer Limits, among others (including the original Star Trek). Familiar plot elements from those worthy programs are all here:…
Riff Trax
Few can riff as well — or as lucratively — as the alumni of “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the 1990s cult TV show about a human and his robot buddies skewering B-movies while stuck in space. And former host Michael…
B Movies in Ireland
MONSTER FLICKS, gory horrors, B-movies, and cult films will be the order of the day at the first NUI Galway Film Society film festival from Monday April 1 to Wednesday 3. Entitled Release the B’s, the festival will screen Irish…
Mad Max Lives
Dr. George Miller’s low budget Mad Max franchise impacted on Australian culture and altered the perception of Australia and Australians overseas in a way that no other Australian film had done. The films explores themes such as ‘man and the…
Weng Weng Lives
Australian filmmaker Andrew Leavold is on a quest. For the past 6 years and armed with a camera he’s been on this quest, searching for Filipino cult movie superstar Weng Weng, and shooting a documentary along the way. Now, armed…
Bigfoot: The Lost Coast Tapes
A helpful pre-credit scrawl indentifies the Lost Coast area of Northern California as a hotbed of reported Sasquatch activity. You would think a quasi-documentary about the culture of Bigfoot hunters and doubters would be a watchable B movie. But why…
The Age of Dinosaurs
The latest film coming out of the Asylum, is The Age of Dinosaurs. At it’s heart, it sounds like a cautionary tale about man’s hubris. Surrounding that heart though is big meaty shell of dino action. “Using breakthrough flesh-regeneration technology,…
Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales
FEARnet announced today it has made a deal with Dead Rabbit Films to acquire the domestic rights to Tom Holland’s Twisted Tales, a brand new anthology series. Ten episodes of the series of short films, written and directed by Tom…
Popcorn
When a group of film students need to raise some cash, they organise a horror movie festival at a run-down theatre, offering fright-fans a selection of old monster movies—complete with their original promotional gimmicks! As a packed house enjoys a…
The Curse of the Remake
While Steven Spielberg and George Lucas changed big budget cinema forever in the 1970s, it was in the proceeding decade that the blockbuster was successfully packaged and replicated by others. And, even though Hollywood’s output in the 1980s was patchy,…
Escape Re-Boot
Rumors and plans for an Escape From New York reboot have been circling for years, but today it seems like the first steps of a more motivated production are being taken. After the planned remake of John Carpenter’s Escape From…