Takashi Miike
Takashi Miike is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over seventy theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing fifteen productions. His…
B Movie Badass
Quentin Tarantino is back, and if you thought he had exorcised the spirit of exploitation cinema from his soul with the “Kill Bill” films, well, think again. His latest project is “Grindhouse,” a double-feature homage to sleazy 1970s B-movies, which…
Ladies and Gentlemen , Pete Spellos
Peter Spellos has been performing and making folks laugh as long as McDonald’s been selling hamburgers. He is a actor/comedian/denture wearer, voice over artist, stage director and author, whose career began as extra for a week on the dance floor…
The Night of a Thousand Cats
The Night of Thousand Cats is an experience. Not unlike the freakish weather we’ve been experiencing over the last few years, this film requires that a number of things align in it’s favor for optimum impact. Working best when viewed…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Fede Alvarez
Recovering heroin addict Mia and four associates head out to a remote location where the token geeky friend reads aloud from the Book of the Dead. The horrors of cold turkey are quickly usurped by the horrors of demonic possession….
Here Comes The Summer of 2013
2012 was a landmark year in many ways. With the release of “The Avengers,” “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Amazing Spider-Man,” the industry saw the true power of the superhero genre as it established itself as the new Hollywood…
Five Quick Questions with Beverly and Ferd Sebastian
Beverly and Ferd Sebastian are the dynamic husband wife team that produced, directed, wrote, and worked as other crew members, for most of their films. They dedicated their time and money to bring us, “Gatorbait”, “Gatorbait II: Cajun Justice”, “Delta…
Death Race 2000
Death Race 2000 is a 1975 cult action film directed by Paul Bartel, and starring David Carradine, Simone Griffeth and Sylvester Stallone. The film takes place in a dystopian American society in the year 2000, where the murderous Transcontinental Road…
Witches and Hockey With Rob Zombie
With “The Lords of Salem,” Rob Zombie explores a world of supernatural horror as he tells the story of a Massachusetts woman who may be living among a coven of witches. The new movie from the rocker/filmmaker has more dread…
Battle Beyond the Stars
Battle Beyond the Stars is an American 1980 science fiction film directed by Jimmy T. Murakami and produced by Roger Corman. The film, intended as a “Magnificent Seven in outer space,” is a pastiche of The Magnificent Seven, the Western…
A Tribute To Harryhausen
As part of their focus on special effects artist in general and Ray Harryhausen in particular, the Cinémathèque Québécoise offers three events on Saturday, April 20, 2013. The first event, at 5 p.m., is free. Phil Boot, who manages the…
Bait
Along with absurdity and poor taste, however, there’s a certain brutal B-movie brilliance in Bait. An average cross-section of Australian society finds itself in a beachfront supermarket on one terrible day: troubled dad and daughter, tense couples, two guys with…
Bruce Campbell: Life after Evil Dead
Now 54, and handsome in the fashion of a 1940s cigarette commercial, the great Bruce Campbell enjoys an odd class of fame. The world, sadly, throngs with too many people who couldn’t distinguish him from any random chisel-jawed supporting player….
Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood Boulevard (1976; Joe Dante & Allan Arkush) is at best a curio—conceived as a bet between New World honcho Roger Corman and producer Jon Davison (who later produced Airplane, Robocop and Starship Troopers), that Davison and then-New World trailer…
Giallo
Dario Argento’s films have always divided critical and audience opinions. To his supporters, he’s one of the cinema’s supreme visual stylists, his work further marked by a constant willingness to experiment with new technologies and techniques. To his detractors, there’s…
Chicks With D—-CKS
t was the runaway hit that put alternative theater on the map in Phoenix. “Chicks With D–ks,” a B-movie parody packed with black leather and cat fights, started out as a student project at Arizona State University, then moved downtown…
Do You Love B Movie Trailers?
If you enjoy watching B movie trailers then have I got some DVD and Blu-ray collections for you! One of the most well known collections is the 42nd Street Forever collection. There have been several volumes released on DVD over…
The Rondo’s Are Out
Today’s grisly takes on zombies and terror shared honors with some of Hollywood’s oldest monsters in the results of the 2013 Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards. The Cabin in the Woods, Joss Whedon’s homage to 80’s teen thrillers, was named…
Respecting The B:Big Ass Spider on The Film Festival Circuit
While it may seem a disappointing revelation to genre fans, director Mike Mendez admits the idea of making a movie about a rampaging giant spider did not initially strike him as a career booster. A few years back, a screenplay…
My Name Is Vladimir: Jack Palance
Jack Palance was an American actor born on February 18, 1919, in Lattimer, Pennsylvania. Named Vladimir Ivanovich Palahniuk,the former boxer gained fame playing villainous characters in Hollywood. He earned Oscar nods for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane…