Bloodfeast
Well, it’s been said that ‘Blood Feast’ was the first gore movie of all time. I’m not going to dispute that, as I haven’t seen any before its release date of 1963. What can not be disputed by anybody is…
The Giant Spider
When radiation left behind by atomic weapons testing creates a gigantic killer mutant arachnid, it’s up to a trio of scientists (Mike Cook, Billie Jo Konze and James Norgard), an Army general (Mark Haider), and a newspaper reporter (Daniel R….
Big Joe Lewis, B Movie Director
Tomorrow night, the University of Chicago’s Doc Films will screen the Joseph H. Lewis noir Gun Crazy, one of the major works of classic B cinema and one of the most radical and thoroughly entertaining movies in American film history,…
Music For Nuke ‘Em High Movie
A CROSS-dressing singer and music producer from Darwen has composed the soundtrack to a film premiered at Cannes. Kurt Walsh, 26, who grew up in Pole Lane, approached Troma Entertainment, the makers of cult 1986 B-movie ‘Nuke Em High’, after…
The Giant Behemoth
The Giant Behemoth was one of the last giant monster-on-the-loose films of the 1950’s, a decade that saw all manner of creatures born of the two biggest scientific issues of the decade- space exploration and nuclear weapons. Behemoth fell into…
The Trendsetting Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman was born on June 1, 1912, in New York City. She was still a child when her mother died. Her father was a hay and grain salesmen who raised her and her five other siblings. Wishman studied for…
Akira
‘Akira’ is an astonishingly influential film, easily as much so as cinema’s touchstones Citizen Kane and Pulp Fiction. Its impact is made more difficult to judge, though, given that it was made more than sixteen years ago, and didn’t make…
Intro To Anime
The real history of the medium is frequently chaotic and bizarre (as is the medium itself), and to cover it in depth would take hundreds of pages (I’ve been threatening for years to write such a book), but that’s not…
Coffy
Pam Grier made many movies in the 1970s, but ‘Coffy’ as much as anything, is the one role on which her reputation as the Queen of blaxploitation rests. After a bit part in a Russ Meyer movie (his classic ‘Beyond…
Fast & Furious 6
There’s an amusing disclaimer in the credits for Fast & Furious 6, along the lines that the stunts in the film are dangerous and shouldn’t be tried at home. Even the most fanatical petrol-head might struggle to recreate the bit…
Shark Hunter
I really love bad movies. The lower the budget and more ridiculous premise the better. If you throw in some awful acting and bad special effects (and those are just a given) then you have the icing on a really…
Arnold In Toxie
What’s weirder, that the former Governor of California might appear in “The Toxic Avenger,” or that there’s a 21st Century remake of the freaky underground favorite in the works? The original “Toxic Avenger” was a low-budget, gross-out comedy about a…
Konga
Dr. Decker comes back from Africa after a year, presumed dead. During that year, he came across a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. During…
Five Quick Questions with Christy Savage – Trash Film Orgy
The Trash Film Orgy (TFO) crew Christy Savage, Darin Wood, and Amy Slockbower, provide fans with a fun interactive show that consists of games, musical numbers, skits, dancing, etc. in addtion to the main feature film. Christy and Darin been…
An Interview With Frank Henenlotter
“The New York I grew up in and love doesn’t exist anymore,” says Frank Henelotter, cult icon of exploitation cinema, director of Basket Case and Brain Damage, and in Edinburgh as guest of honour at this year’s Dead By Dawn…
Warhol’s Mead Passes
The previous year Warhol had arrived in Hollywood with Mead, staying for two weeks at the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Warhol used his new silent 16mm Bolex movie camera to shoot his first partially scripted feature, Tarzan and Jane Regained……
Horror fans come out for B-movie
VHS horror fans got their gore on at the Sherman Theater on Saturday. Anyone who still owns a video cassette player could have had a thrill looking through some of the dusty copies of mainstream movies, but most of the…
A Look At The Lfe Of Ray Harryhausen
Earlier today we learned of the death of Ray Harryhausen, the special-visual-effects specialist whose name practically became a synonym for the art of stop-motion animation. As a young man, Harryhausen was inspired by the work of Hollywood animation pioneer Willis…
B Movie Theatre
Three-headed dinosaurs. Slime creatures from another planet. Time-travelling scientists. All of the above figure in Ramshackle Theatre’s Sci-Fi Double Feature, and if it sounds like the stuff of long-ago drive-in movies, that’s the point. Calling from a break during technical…
Bollywood Zombies
The cliche about waiting a long time for a bus to come and then three arriving all at once also applies to Bollywood zombie movies, it seems. The Saif Ali Khan-starrer Go Goa Gone opens on Thursday, the same day…