Hatchet 3
Given its title, it comes as no surprise that Hatchet III wears its gore credentials well and truly front-and-centre, revelling in its oddly – and bloodily – amusing opening shot of its heroine blasting the head of hulking murderous swamp…
Sybil Danning
Born under the sign of Gemini, she was the love child of a German-Dutch-American father, who had to leave for the U.S. before Sybil’s birth. Sybil’s Austrian mother raised her until she married a U.S. Army major, who relocated his…
Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn stood up before a Los Angeles Film Fest crowd on Thursday night to introduce Only God Forgives, his follow-up to the critically-acclaimed Drive. He described the difference between the films in terms of specific drug-taking experiences: whereas…
The Zombie King
Contrary to popular belief, Edward Furlong still finds time to make movies. The troubled Terminator 2 star appears alongside fellow B-movie staple Corey Feldman in the upcoming horror-comedy The Zombie King. You can find the trailer for this low-budget endeavor…
Got To Love Those Zombies: World War Z
Surprisingly entertaining, even fitfully exciting, “World War Z” is primarily an exercise in expectation management. Forget those trailers suggesting a rock ’em, sock ’em, blow-it-all-up extravaganza or a Grand Guignol of cannibalistic grotesquerie by way of those titular Z’s; i.e.,…
World War Z
The first problem you encounter with World War Z, the new action blockbuster starring Brad Pitt, is how to pronounce the damn thing. Should the last letter be said “zee”, to sound like “three”, or “zed”, to sound like “dead”,…
Maniac Redux
Did Elijah Wood come home from New Zealand with the One Ring still safely tucked away in his pocket? That’s one possible explanation for the actor’s ongoing fascination with playing dark, messed-up characters since going on his heroic journey in…
Five Quick Questions with Scott Wheeler – “Avalanche Sharks”
Scott Wheeler has about eighty special effects credits and a half dozen directing credits. He’s worked on countless Asylum films and many other popular B movies, “Sand Sharks,” “Dragon Wasps,” and “Dracano” are just a few examples. Scott also has…
Bug-Eyed B’s
Cicada mania has swept the area this summer, with mature nymphs emerging from their underground dwellings after a 17-year hiatus. Though cicadas do not bite or sting — therefore posing no danger to humans — this got us to thinking:…
Classic B’s In Bridgeport
The monthly “Bedlam at the Bijou” series on Thursday, June 20, is featuring the original 1950s B-movies that inspired three big-budget remakes — “The Thing” and “The Fly.” The “Before They Were Remakes” program at Bridgeport’s Bijou Theatre will start…
The Cult Of Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon has created so much cult entertainment that he has become a cult figure himself. He’s that rare writer/producer/director with movie-star status to the legion of fans of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” “Angel” and “Firefly,” to name a few…
Sharknado
It’s the storm of the century — with teeth. “Sharknado” is a new B-movie, produced for the Syfy channel, that that pits hundreds of man-eating sharks against plastic-surgery victim Tara Reid and the rest of the silicone-flavored populace of Los…
THE B MOVIE ROAD TOUR/NEC DISPLAY COMES ON BOARD
Polyscope Media Group is pleased to announce that NEC Display Solutions, the world leader in digital projection, has joined the B Movie Road Tour as a lead sponsor. “It is obvious that NEC is deeply committed to the theatrical experience,”…
Creature features-‘The Howling’ and ‘Lifeforce’ arriving on Blu-ray
It’s time for the sparkling bloodsuckers and the shirtless lycanthropes of “Twilight” to step aside. A pair of horror cult classics are set to arrive, fangs and all, on Blu-ray on Tuesday, June 18: Joe Dante’s “The Howling” (1981) and…
Vulgar Cinema
There has been lots of talk online in recent weeks about a critical phenomenon called “vulgar auteurism” (V.A.), a term coined—as I just learned from Adam Cook at MUBI—by the critic Andrew Tracy. Though that coinage was skeptical, the term…
B Movies In Advertising
Car insurance brand Bingle has unveiled the fourth of its B-movie themed killer giant beast campaign, this time featuring an attack by a giant spider. Earlier slots portrayed a 50 foot woman rampaging Sydney, a flying saucer attack on Melbourne…
Bruce Dern….
The question had to be asked: what the hell is a dernsie? Veteran actor Bruce Dern dropped the word during a Cannes press conference for Alexander Payne’s Nebraska, proclaiming it the first movie he has ever shot without “dernsies.” Later,…
Joss Whedon The Genre Slayer
In the course of about a month, director Joss Whedon went from spending quality time with Hollywood power players such as Captain America, The Hulk and Iron Man to hanging with that superhero of sonnets, William Shakespeare. Earlier this year,…
Thing From Another World
The Air Force sends a crew up to the North Pole to help American scientists blast out a strange object they’ve found in the ice. But what they find inside it is even stranger: A giant alien, frozen stiff. What…
Gillian On the B TV
There’s a lot of blather these days about The Future of Television, especially as the content that used to arrive via a bulky, stationary object in the living room continues to experiment with an array of new delivery systems. Right…