The Lost Empire CD is released
BSX Records presents the original soundtrack to THE LOST EMPIRE, featuring music composed and performed by Alan Howarth, in association with Alan Howarth, for the 1983 action adventure fantasy written and directed by Jim Wynorski (CHOPPING MALL, DEATHSTALKER II), starring…
The Dawn Of Blobfest
Science fiction fans with a fondness for the gooey mess that became “The Blob” — a B movie that also marked the debut of actor Steve McQueen — will celebrate the iconic flick this weekend. The Colonial Theater, seen in…
The World’s End
eaming up for another round of boozing, buddying and B-movie parodying, director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg find themselves getting apocalyptically plastered in their clever and hilarious sci-fi sendup The World’s End. At once a Big Chill-style old-pal reunion…
Ursula Andress
If I still consider Raquel Welch as my favorite starlet of the sixties, I must admit that Ursula Andress is somewhere in the Top 5. Maybe her icy distance will always be responsible for not reaching numero uno. But do…
Sharknado
What could be better than one gonzo shark-themed disaster movie? For SyFy, the answer appears to be “All the gonzo shark-themed disaster movies.” To make Thursday’s premiere of Sharknado all the more of an event, the cable channel is preparing…
Nude On The Moon
If there were an Oscar category for most sincere performance in a ridiculous movie (and there should be!), Lester Brown and William Mayer would surely have been nominated for their work in Doris Wishman’s “Nude on the Moon,” a jaw-dropping…
Why Pacific Rim Is Cooler
Yes, there’s something called “Atlantic Rim.” But we’ll get to that later. Let’s begin with the release of what will probably be the final trailer of “Pacific Rim,” Guillermo del Toro’s slam-bang summer movie extravaganza. You probably know the premise…
Battle At Blood Beach
Fox has released the 1961 B WWII movie Battle at Bloody Beach as as burn-to-order Cinema Archive title. The film stars Audie Murphy, who was trying to expand his horizons beyond the Western movie genre. This was only Murphy’s second…
Scream Queens The Musical
Scream Queens, an outrageously campy musical comedy about former B-movie horror actresses who reunite for a Sci-Fi convention, will be performed Friday, July 5 and Saturday, July 6 at 7:30 p.m. and in a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, July…
Florida Museum hosts Creative B Movie Series
On Saturdays in July, the Florida Museum of Natural History hosts a summer movie party with some of its favorite beasts and creatures invited to attend. The honored guests include a giant simian that scaled a New York City icon,…
First Spaceship On Venus
The amazing imaginative fiction author Stanislaw Lem wrote this visually stunning East German space exploration film with a dated but still thoughtful message. The Sets of Der Schweigende Stern are detailed and beautiful – giving the film an amazingly alien…
Svengoolie-Jerry Bishop
It was 1970 when the original Svengoolie would hit Chicago airwaves and the Windy City hasn’t been the same since! The “vampire hippy” with his quick wit, projectile rubber chickens, and hilarious commercial/song parodies made for a side-splitting night of…
Chilly Billy-Bill Cardille
rofessional television and radio personality, William “Bill” Cardille, has been a voice in broadcasting since the 1950’s. Despite the longevity of his prolific career, he will best be remembered for his tenure as horror host, “Chilly Billy,” via Pennsylvania’s “Chiller…
Tom Holland
Tom Holland is an American director and screenwriter of horror and thriller films. His early writing projects include Class of 1984 (1982) and the Robert Bloch- inspired Psycho II (1983), the latter starring Anthony Perkins as the menacing psychopath, Norman…
Twixt
No amount of bad “buzz” should ever keep you from avoiding a movie you want to see, especially when it’s a film that comes from someone like Francis Ford Coppola. Not to overstate the obvious, but the director of The…
SlaughterBox
Hugh Phoenix Cross’ newly formed production company 10 Gauge Shakespeare (a.k.a. 10GS) teams up with MOnsterworks66 for the new horror SlaughterBox. The style of Hugh’s 10GS is to represent the rustic outlaw quality and strong Shakespearian influence in his writing…
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…