A Taste of B-movie Horror
The Austin School of Film has announced a new, free summer screening series scheduled to start this Saturday night. “Pesadillas Calidas: Horror Films from Mexico” is set to feature six films every other Saturday night from June through August. The…
Night Of The Comet
Trapped in a hellish copyright limbo for over a decade, Thom Eberhardt’s “Night Of The Comet” is a film whose reputation is due for a serious rehabilitation. Generally–and wrongly–categorized with typical 80s teen horror films, “Comet” is in fact a…
B-movie king Roger Corman brings films to YouTube
Roger Corman, one of the all-time great makers of B-movies, is bringing his collection to YouTube. Corman, maker of 400 films that span horror; sci-fi; action and adventure; comedy; and other genres, is launching “Corman’s Drive-In,” a new subscription channel…
Tarantula
This is one of the most fondly remembered of the ‘giant monster’ films popularized by THEM! (1954) and, in hindsight, still ranks among the best of its type. I had first watched it on late-night Italian TV in my early…
Leo G. Carroll
One of the most indispensable of character actors, Leo G. Carroll was already involved in the business of acting as a schoolboy in Gilbert & Sullivan productions. Aged 16, he portrayed an old man in ‘Liberty Hall’. In spite of…
Still Freaky After Forty
Deemed very risqué at the time, The Rocky Horror Show captured the zeitgeist and became a sensation. Forty years after that June 19 premiere in a 63-seater theatre in London, the show continues to delight both critics and audiences. That…
This Is The End
It’s no minor accomplishment to make one of the most indulgent projects in Hollywood history. But with “This Is the End,” Seth Rogen and his pals have indeed achieved this dubious goal. The concept is that Jay Baruchel has just…
The Iceman
In the amaranthine wastelands of the internet, there are very few videos creepier than the Richard Kuklinski interviews. Filmed by HBO from inside his high security prison, the Mafia-contracted serial killer talks with an unsettling calm about the countless scores…
Dead Man Down
Dead Man Down is a perfectly serviceable B-movie with enough character and story developments and twists to keep its audience satisfied even though it never threatens to be anything above its station. The screenplay starts nicely as the action begins…
Earth vs. the Spider
Welcome once again to “Hollywood, Shmallywood,” the movie lover’s guide to terrible films that dares to ask the question that is on the minds of all viewers: “What was the director thinking?” Today’s stink bomb is titled “Earth vs. the…
A Humbled James Cameron
Opinions are like assholes – everyone has one.” The gruff sentiment is not what you expect from one of the world’s most powerful film-makers, well versed in Hollywood etiquette. But then James Cameron is no ordinary director. He is the…
The Joy of Stinkers
Ro-Man the alien invader, garbed in gorilla suit and diving helmet, has all but wiped out humankind with a deadly bubble machine. Jane Fonda is being pecked to death by budgies, a midget James Bond knocks off half the male…
The Purge Pulls Off Shocker
One of the cheapest movies of the year scored the biggest box-office upset of summer as The Purge knocked Fast & Furious 6 from the top spot and trounced The Internship. Purge, a $3 million horror film that was expected…
SYFY Sinbad
Syfy dusts off the “Sinbad” (9 tonight, TV-14) story for a whole new generation. The special effects-driven fantasy also asks audiences to identify with heroes of a non-Western culture and complexion. Elliot Knight stars in the title role, and he’s…
The Purge
In The Purge we witness an imminent future (the year 2020) in which America has created a new system for controlling crime, violence and poverty. Known as the annual “Purge,” the ‘new founding fathers’ declare that for one day every…
Spyderwoman
Dating in Miami is hard enough, even if you aren’t a venomous mythical jungle monster who has escaped from a laboratory. But in Spyderwoman, a new movie shot and set in Miami, this is exactly the raw deal faced by…
The Launch of The B Movie Road Tour
The 1950s and 1960s, drive-ins began to spread like wildfire, increasing to more than 4,000 locations. The new sites may have begun as a venue to watch films, but interestingly, the main films that were shown were mostly considered to be B…
Update on “Way Down in Chinatown” World Premiere June 15th
Following up on “Way Down in Chinatown,” http://www.bmovienation.com/?p=6960 the world premiere is the midnight show at the Hollywood Fringe Festival on June 15th. Since reviewing “W.D.i.C” here, the film has generated plenty of publicity and whether you love or hate…
80th Anniversary of The Drive-In
June 6, 1933 marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the first drive-in movie theater in Camden, New Jersey. The facility was the brain child of Richard M. Hollingshead, an avid film buff and theatergoer, who invented the concept…
Rabid Love Hits The Big Screen
We live in a world in which the next generation will never understand or get the concept of free love. In the Sixties and Seventies you could hump freely with pregnancy and minor STD’s being your only worry. It’s amazing…