Hunting Grounds
Indie filmmakers don’t often tackle the science fiction genre—the cost and logistics of creating a believable futuristic world is often far beyond their meager budgets. That ambition is partially what makes the sci-fi/horror hybrid Hunting Grounds so notable, as director…
My Fair Zombie
Beating the inevitable Pride and Prejudice and Zombies film adaptation to the gore-soaked punch, Ottawa b-film maestro Brett Kelly is back with his own blood-soaked take on a classic public domain work. This putridly playful horror musical–Kelly’s first zombie film…
Play Them Again, Sammy, A Tribute By Tess Henson
It’s late on a Friday night in 1967. I’m a scared five ¬year old sitting on my father’s knee. The room is dark except for the flickering light of an old black & white television. The scene being played out…
Sammy Terry of ‘Nightmare Theater’ dies at 83
Bob Carter, who went by Sammy Terry while hosting a late-night scary movie on Indianapolis television from the 1960s into the 1980s, died Sunday, a spokesman for American Senior Communities confirmed. Carter, who was 83, had been a resident of…
Troma and Youtube
Don’t be put off by the words “cheap” and “tasteless” – when it comes to mass-produced B-movies this is among some of the highest accolades a budget horror can achieve – and if there’s one company that knows how to…
Frankenstein’s Army
You’ve seen found footage horror and Nazi zombies before, but Frankenstein’s Army mashes them together in a way that breathes new life into tired genre conventions. It’s based around the wonderfully absurd idea that Victor Frankenstein’s grandson (Karel Roden) was…
ARISE OF THE SNAKE WOMAN
An ancient legend tells of Lamia, the beautiful queen and adulteress whose lover was put to death. After being transformed into a snake, she murders and enslaves the innocent until the gods turn her to into a stone statue. When…
Queen Of Outer Space
Queen of Outer Space is a 1958 American CinemaScope science fiction feature film starring Zsa Zsa Gabor, Eric Fleming, and Laurie Mitchell in a tale about a revolt against a cruel Venusian queen. The screenplay by Charles Beaumont was based…
Ladies and Gentlemen: John Agar
Born in Chicago on January 31, 1921, B-movie legend John Agar did not harbor a desire to be an actor early on. During World War II, the 6’3″ Agar had served as a physical training instructor with the U.S. Army…
Leprechaun The Redo
Lionsgate and WWE Studios are collaborating on a revamping of the Leprechaun horror-comedy property. The series previously gave rise to two theatrically-released films and four direct-to-video installments, starring longtime fan-favorite Warwick Davis (an alum of the Star Wars and Harry…
Make Your Own Robot
Despite his devotion to Daleks—those cruel, armor-clad extraterrestrials from the TV show Doctor Who, now in its 50th year—Jim Rossiter has no interest in annihilating other civilizations. The 57-year-old Australian just likes how the aliens look. After decades of building…
Popatopalis With Clay Westervelt
Life can be so simple. In case you ever wondered what it takes to make a movie, well, ask Jim Wynorski. „A big chase and a big chest“ and you’re done. You doubt it? Doubt no more. The one-of-a-kind B-movie…
Here comes the zombie apocalypse
Today the world seems totally overrun by zombies. They’re the creature of the moment – like the Cold War-metaphor aliens from outer space in the 1950s. And whether they are metaphors for the impending devastation of viral plague, environmental meltdown…
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley was born in Kashmir, India, on 1st May 1946. Her father was a major in the Gurkha Rifles, and she spent most of her early childhood in the Far East where her father was posted. An aspiring actress,…
The Movie Serial
Serials, more specifically known as Movie serials, Film serials or Chapter plays, are short subjects originally shown in theaters in conjunction with a feature film. They were related to pulp magazine serialized fiction. Also known as “chapter plays”, they were…
The Best Films You Have Never Seen
Robert K. Elder, a writer and editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, is a veteran of crowdsourced cinephilia, having written The Film That Changed My Life, featuring discussions with film directors on the subject. His new book is The Best Films…
Lifeforce
THERE ARE TWO very striking things about “Lifeforce.” 1. This movie is awesomely bad; the kind of bad that used to find a home in late-night TV pulp movie marathons, but now reaps ironic praise by armies of acolytes hiding…
Richard Matheson, Rest In Peace
Author Richard Matheson, whose injection of humanity into science-fiction tales engaged audience for more than five decades, has died. Matheson’s work included The Shrinking Man, I Am Legend, and numerous other movie and TV scripts, including episodes of The Twilight…
“Reunion” – Press Release
B Movie Nation’s Maria Olsen and her production company MOnsterworks66, along with ACH Reunion are currently filming a new horror/thriller due out in 2013. Plot Outline: Trapped in his home, an ex-rock star who’s haunted by demons from his past must save…
Dawn Of The Dead
Dawn of the Dead (also known as Zombi internationally) is a 1978 horror film written and directed by George A. Romero.It was the second film made in Romero’s Living Dead series, but contains no characters or settings from Night of…