Here’s To You Mrs. Robinson:The Decline Of The Movies
When I was a young would be filmmaker I absolutely loved going to the movies. I loved the sounds, the smells and the anticipation while I awaited first few flickers of a movie. It was an amazing and vital time….
STAR WARS TREATMENT HAS BEEN WRITTEN
Months before Lucasfilm was sold to Disney and plans for new Star Wars movies were announced, Toy Story 3 writer Michael Arndt was hired to write a 40-50 page treatment for Episode VII, sources confirm to The Hollywood Reporter. Arndt,…
World War Z Trailer Hits
Producer and star Brad Pitt and director Marc Forster‘s delayed MegaZombie Production World War Z, looks, from this trailer, to be worth the wait. It introduces something new to the Zombie genre – scale – something that hasn’t been available…
Announcing The B Movie Summit
The B Movie Nation is pleased to announce the First B Movie Summit April 19-20th,2013 In Franklin Indiana 8-12 Unreleased B Movies Attendance limited to 25 Filmmakers in attendance No cost to attend go to http://www.facebook.com/groups/bmovienation to register
Documentary on B-movie master William Castle
Pity poor William Castle. One gets the feeling that the B-movie filmmaker spent his whole life trying to get out from the shadow of Alfred Hitchcock. He never really did — with his most noteworthy film credit coming as a…
Beverly Gray: A B Movie Life
Beverly Gray has spent her career fluctuating between the world of the intellect and show biz. As she was completing her doctorate in Contemporary American Fiction at UCLA, she surprised everyone (including herself) by taking a job with B-movie maven…
Chopping Mall: The Golden Mountain of The 80’s B’s
Cast Kelli Maroney Tony O’Dell Russell Todd Karrie Emerson Barbara Crampton Nick Segal John Terlesky Suzee Slater Dick Miller Gerrit Graham Mel Welles Angela Aames Paul Coufos Arthur Roberts Crew Director:Jim Wynorski Writer:Steve Mitchell/Jim Wynorski Producers:Julie Corman /Roger Corman Music:…
‘Miami Connection’: A Forgotten B-Movie Masterpiece Comes Back To Theaters
“So bad it’s good” has become the elevator pitch for midnight movies the world over. But as you settle in to watch “Miami Connection,” a well-meaning 1987 action flick that opens in select theaters nationwide today, one man suggests an…
Lucas Sells The Whole Kit And Kaboodle
Disney has purchased George Lucas’ Lucasfilm LTD for $4.05 billion, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Disney will own all of LucasFilm, including its film production, consumer products, animation, visual effects and audio post-production divisions. It will also acquire the…
Five Quick Questions: Jim Wynorski
JIM WYNORSKI , International B Movie Man of Action and a native of Long Island, is a multi-talented writer/producer/director with over 70 genre films to his credit. His many B classics combining the Basics of Breasts, Blood and Beasts include…
Back To Our Roots:A B Movie Manifesto
Movies are changing, and not for the better. Today we are barraged by an amazing cascade of computer generated effects, shots are slowed down and then sped up scoffing at the laws of physics in order to accentuate a punch…
Gila! Releases Poster And Trailer
In preparation for the American Film Market , are are please to release the final poster and trailer for GILA! Here is the trailer for our remake of the Giant Gila Monster [v=7vvbM6ZwxQE]
I Was A Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Michael Landon gives his hairiest performance as the troubled high school student Tony Rivers. Whit Bissell is the shrink who hypnotizes him and turns him into a raging lycanthrope. Yvonne Lime , who co-starred with Elvis the same year in…
El Stinko:Piranha 3DD
After the calamitous events at Lake Victoria in Piranha 3D, the prehistoric piranhas set their sights on a new target: Big Wet, a water park that is set to open just in time to draw massive crowds for the start…
Wolfman Mac
Wolfman Mac is B-movie and horror aficionado Mac Kelly, host of “Chiller Drive-In,” a sitcom about a werewolf who owns a drive-in and shows classic horror and sci-fi films. The show, produced in Pontiac at Erebus haunted attraction, is nationally…
Florida Is Going B Crazy
What’s with the sudden B-movie fascination in South Florida? Over the last several months, a handful of local theaters and art spaces have been transformed into houses of horror, screening what could be described as the anti-Hollywood film: the B-movie….
Five Quick Questions: Tura Satana
There are Legends, there are Icons, there are Super-women – and then there is TURA SATANA, the immortal star of Russ Meyer’s masterpiece Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1965) as well as many other cult classics, who boldly embodies all three…
Five Quick Questions: Stuart Gordon
“It’s hard to get ahead in this economy…” STUART GORDON is one of the few current filmmakers whose work will be studied, with appropriate shock and awe, decades from now. His bold style and unique vision…
Five Easy Questions: Lloyd Kaufman
LLOYD KAUFMAN is to cult movies what Alpo is to dog food. He’s a recognized, celebrated brand name boasting a tried-and-true tradition you don’t mess with, reliable and undeniable. His underground film dynasty Troma Entertainment revolutionized the indie market in…
Tony Randel: The B Zen Master
Tony Randel is known best for directing “Hellbound: Hellraiser II”, amongst many other genre films. Tony has recently released his latest film “The Double Born”, which has been quite talked about within fans of the genre. Movie Mikes had a…