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Creature Features

Creature Features was a generic title for a genre of horror TV format shows broadcast on local U.S. television stations throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The movies broadcast on the various shows generally classic and cult horror movies of…

Cannibal Holocaust

Arguably the most infamous, controversial, and shocking of the video nasties, Ruggero Deodato managed to infuse a horror sub-genre flagging from over exposure, into a powerful piece of pseudo-documentary cinema, that still horrifies, traumatises and disgusts modern audiences. Italian genre…

High Frame Rate And The Hobbit

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will be released this December in all motion picture formats, including the brand new format High Frame Rate 3D (HFR 3D). With the support of select theaters, HFR 3D represents a technological advancement in the…

Valley Of The Gwangi

The Valley of Gwangi is a film that, through cult enjoyment of its quality, has managed to overcome the problems that made it “forgotten” in motion pictures to enjoy its present status as a fantasy classic. Originally written by King…

Osombie:The Axis Of The Evil Dead

On Dec. 11, Arrowstorm Entertainment will release “Osombie” directly to Blu-ray/DVD, and yes, it is about Osama Bin Laden returning from the grave and amassing a zombie army. Just in time for stocking stuffer season! Seems that burial at sea…

A Trio Of Directors For The Next Star Wars Installment

Deadline is reporting that there are still three directors left in the running to tackle Star Wars: Episode VII .Lucasfilm’s favorite is still Matthew Vaughn. And coming off X-Men and Kick-Ass this is no big surprise, but maybe they’re forgetting…

Death Proof: Tarantino’s Worst Film

Quentin Tarantino has admitted that the worst film he has made is his ‘grindhouse’ film ‘Death Proof’. The 2007 film starred Kurt Russell as a malevolent stuntman who stalks a group of women, and murders them with his muscle-car. Tarantino……

Iron Sky: Blu-ray Release

Iron Sky is hilarious. In fact it’s so terrible that one can’t help but laugh at this triple threat of a farce. On the surface it’s obviously a sci-fi spoof. On another, having it be about Nazis living on the…

For The Love Of The Gonk

The Gonk”, the eerily cheerful song that plays over the credits as the zombies shamble through the abandoned mall, is a perfect cap to the film. The juxtaposition of an upbeat, cheery tune playing as dead people stumble through the…

Enter Canuxploitation

A WHEEZING PERVERT makes obscene phone calls to a sorority house. Michael Ironside stews in a bachelor pad, writing angry letters to a feminist talk show host. Five horny students at T & A High make a pact to see…

B Movie Maverick : Andre De Toth

If we are to believe even a fraction of what has been written by and about the film director André de Toth, who has died aged 89, then his life was even more exciting and varied than the plots of…

Midnight Sundance Line-up

Sundance’s Midnight Movie selection can always be counted on for some high-octane weirdness. This year brings Rob Corddry and Leslie Bibb in a comedy about a pregnant couple who move into “the most haunted fixer-upper in New Orleans,” a provocative…

Little Shop Of Horrors

Funny, sexy black comedy shot by “King of the B’s” Roger Corman on a landmark budget of 27 000 and in landmark time of only 2 days! Its the funniest movie i’ve seen from 1960 or before, and between this…

Ms. Caroline Munro

Leggy, brunette-maned pin-up actress Caroline Munro was born in Windsor and lived in Rottingdean near Brighton where she attended a Catholic Convent School. By chance, her mother and a photographer entered her picture in a “Face of the Year” competition…

Sharknado Is Real

While many of us this week are still dealing with the crippling aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, we should all take a moment and be thankful that it wasn’t worse. It could’ve been a Sharknado. What’s a Sharknado? An upcoming movie…

The Ghastly Love of Johnny X

“They sing! They dance! They’re juvenile delinquents from outer space!” Paul Bunnell’s “The Ghastly Love of Johnny X” is a lovingly demented homage to 1950s sci-fi and beach-bop cinema, the kind of movie destined for a long and fruitful afterlife…

Pitch Your Story Idea To The Asylum

PITCH SUBMISSION We are seeking pitches for the following genres ONLY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO COMEDY: Broad comedy with a primarily Hispanic-American cast. AFRICAN-AMERICAN ACTION: Action movie with a primarily African-American cast. LATINO ACTION:…

Machete In Court

The owner of the “Machete” action movie sued the makers of an upcoming sequel for more than $2 million, claiming they lied about the budget to avoid paying producer fees. Overnight Productions and Machete’s Chop Shop Inc. sued Machete Kills…

The Big Cheese: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians

There is a real movie called “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.” Just let that sink in for a minute. In 1964, adults with careers used real money and real effort (well, real money anyway) to make a movie called “Santa…

Duncan Jax, Super Spy

This movie introduces us to superspy, adventurer, and uh…ninja, Duncan Jax (played by Ian Hunter, not the Mott the Hoople singer, although that may have been more interesting). We are about to embark on a spy-ninja-pulp adventure featuring Jax and…