150 Free From Troma From Youtube
Troma Entertainment is a giant in the B-movie world, creating and releasing tons of movies, including its most famous film, The Toxic Avenger. Company founder and film director Lloyd Kaufman (who has written a guest post for us in the…
The House On Haunted Hill
At the house on haunted hill, the electricity is busted, the windows are barred, the doors are impenetrable, and not to mention there are murderous ghosts. Plus, if you want to earn ten thousand dollars, you have the stay the…
Lost Boys
If you wanted to see a movie that captures the spirit of the 1980s and ventured beyond John Hughes’ stable of teenage films, you could do far worse than “The Lost Boys.” ‘THE LOST BOYS’ When: 9:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept….
Michael Clarke Duncan R.I.P.
Michael Clarke Duncan, nominated for an Academy Award for his role in the 1999 film “The Green Mile,” died Monday morning at age 54, according to a representative for his family. Duncan “suffered a myocardial infarction on July 13 and…
Get The Gringo
It’s difficult, if not impossible, to see Mel Gibson’s recent cinematic endeavors, including his ill-fated attempt to bring the stories of the Maccabees to the big screen with the serene assistance of the ever-dependable Joe Eszterhas outside of the context…
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
We celebrate the Blu-Ray Release of Charles Barton’s delightful “” (1948). My late mother Coletta always claimed that she saw this and was frightened by it when she was pregnant with me, and further insisted my extreme nervousness as a…
$1.5 Billion For Avengers
Given that the Walt Disney Co announced its $4 billion purchase of Marvel three years ago almost to the day, that price tag looks like a bargain after Summer 2012. Because Marvel’s The Avengers in its 19th week of global…
Cloverfield
Say what you will about Cloverfield there is no denying that it generated massive buzz and was a huge hit. JJ Abrams re-invented the found footage movie with his monster flick. This movie was as much a marketing juggernaut as…
Slither
I have always been a sucker for horror comedies and when you throw in a malicious space alien all the better! The only thing better then a horror comedy is a horror comedy that is as polished and as well…
Splinter
Toby Wilkin is an incredibly talented director and an all around nice guy which is both pretty rare in Hollywood. Where most filmmakers and writers are busy stroking their own egos Toby Wilkins was busy making a truly fantastic monster…
Insectula
Below you can checkout the trailer for Michael Peterson’s Insectula and it is in a word awesome. I love b-movies and I love them even more when they are well polished machines featuring killer insects. Infestation is one of my…
The Good Doctor
“The Good Doctor” Technique isn’t everything. The crumminess of ’40s and ’50s B movies sometimes made them even darker, as though life were so grim there was no point in expending the effort to give them a little style. That’s…
Must See Horror
When it comes to shocks, movie fans have plenty of options. You could spend your entire movie-watching life just watching horror movies with big stars, big special effects, and big studios in the credits. But what would be the point…
The Possession
Moody and a little slow, with muted colors and a half-empty, alien-feeling suburban setting, Danish director Ole Bornedal’s “The Possession” is a nifty end-of-summer gift for horror buffs. (Understandably, the promotional campaign for this movie has emphasized producer Sam Raimi,…
Joker
It’s not every day that a sci-fi aficionado gets to site the example of Plan 9 From Outerspace. It’s that “blue moon” moment (which serendipitously falls tonight) when you get to hark back to the genius of Ed Wood Jr….
Veterans revel in B-grade flick
Veteran action cheese balls delight in brain-bypass a B-movie. And for an 80’s hangover it’s nearly two hours of thrilling escapism. Guns, fights, blood, death – all displayed in the way that Hollywood cinema delivered mega tonnes of back in…
A day in the life of a zombie horror movie extra
EVEN flesh-eating undead Nazis in rubber masks have a pecking order, as Jay Richardson found when he spent a day on the set of a Scottish zombie spectacular Shooting a zombie blockbuster in Glasgow last summer, graciously posing for photographs…
The Day
In the post-apocalyptic film world, the tactic du jour for tipping off an audience that civilization and its inhabitants have all but kicked it seems to be simple color correction — specifically, zapping the frame of any lively hues and…
25 Years of Horror, Occult and the Funk
Before Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, there was My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK). Formed in 1987, TKK paved the way for industrial music acts, such as Manson’s to flourish. Originally, My Life with the Thrill Kill…
The Tall Man
A quiet and remote location, a wintry cold, frightened townspeople — “The Tall Man” has the makings of a classic thriller. And for a while, this movie from Canadian director Pascal Laugier has a chilly, compellingly weird atmosphere. But then…