She
She is a 1965 film made by Hammer Film Productions, based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard.It was directed by Robert Day and stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros and Christopher Lee. The film…
Abrams Next To Helm Star Wars
I don’t consider this to be good news. Trek has never mixed well with the Wars. JJ Abrams might be the most powerful man in science fiction pop culture, as he takes on Star Wars following his successful revamp of…
Wow Piranhaconda On Cinemax Asia
Piranhaconda Sunday, 27 Jan at 10.00PM Starring: Michael Madsen, Rachel Hunter, Shandi Finnessey Directed by: Jim Wynorski Genre: Horror-thriller Over seven decades since he first began making his name with the kind of fun, Z-grade schlock this film falls way…
Man From Planet X
The Man From Planet X is a 1951 science fiction film. starring Robert Clarke, Margaret Field and William Schallert. It was directed by Edgar G. Ulmer A spaceship from a previously unknown planet lands in the Scottish moors, bringing an…
Ticks
Directed by Tony Randel and released by Paramount in 1993, Ticks may not be the most original horror movie ever made but it definitely is a lot of fun. Written by Brent V. Friedman, the man who gave us the…
IN SEARCH OF DRACULA
Given the plethora of low-budget 1970s documentaries exploring such phenomena as UFOs, Bigfoot, etc., it’s no surprise that Bram Stoker’s Prince of Darkness would become grist for the cinematic mill. Based on a 1972 bestseller, producer/director Calvin Floyd’s low-budget 1975…
Mr.Bad:Uwe Boll
UWE BOLL is often referred to as the worst filmmaker in the world. This seems to pain Mr. Boll, a gregarious 42-year-old German whose best-known movies are based on video games. So he has shared the pain with his critics,…
Virtually Heroes
With films like Hobo with a Shotgun and V/H/S validating the nostalgic, antiquated fantasy ethos of a generation of emotionally limited young men unconsciously keen on implicit power, a movie like Virtually Heroes, a glowing testament to insecure male identity…
Charles Lamont
Charles Lamont was a prolific film director of over 200 titles, and the producer and writer of many others. He was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, and died in Los Angeles, California, USA. Some of Lamont’s earliest directorial jobs were…
Poverty Row
Poverty Row was a slang term used in Hollywood from the late 1920s through the mid-1950s to refer to a variety of small (and mostly short-lived) B movie studios. While many of them were on (or near) today’s Gower Street…
Jacques Tourneur’s CAT PEOPLE
More often than not, it’s much better to show nothing than anything at all. Hitchcock knew this, and that’s how he essentially became known as The Master of Suspense. Had he shown Norman’s “mother” from “Psycho” killing the girl in…
American International Pictures
American International Pictures (AIP) was a film production company formed in April 1954 from American Releasing Corporation (ARC) by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer. It was dedicated to releasing…
The Promise Of B Bollywood Movie Posters
I’m not drawn to the movies as much as I am to their images. When I look at old B-movie posters and stills, I tend to fantasise about the worlds behind them, they provoke my imagination and start off stories…
Digital Projection Has Drive-In movie Theaters Reeling
As the night grew darker, a cold wind whipped across the asphalt expanse of the vintage Rubidoux Drive-In Theatre in Riverside. A howling gust banged open the door to the snack bar, where hot dogs glistened on metal spits and…
DREDD Packs A Punch
The first of Dredd’s many pleasures is that it manages to right the wrongs that Danny Cannon and Sylvester Stallone wrought with their woefully misbegotten Judge Dredd adaptation. That earlier film has achieved cult status since its 1995 release, though…
The Last Stand Delivers Crowd-Pleasing B-Movie Goods
The Last Stand (trailer) is not a great film by any stretch of the imagination. But even in mid-January, it lays down the gauntlet for providing one of the more overtly crowd-pleasing (and thus successful) genre films to come down…
The Big Oscar Snub Of 2012
The Academy Awards are drawing near once again and with 2012 being one of the most incredible years for film in recent memory, it will be a show for the books. Unfortunately with every new year though comes a list…
Mr. Ted V. Mikels
American filmmaker Ted V. Mikels holds a unique position as one of the most unconventional directors of exploitation cinema. Famous for his eccentric home life (he once lived with a harem in a castle with secret passageways) and promotional gimmicks…
Those Devils From Tasmanian
Tasmanian Devils, a SyFy Original Film that premieres January 19, features Winnie Cooper from The Wonder Years toasting monsters with a flamethrower. If that’s not enough to set your TIVO, it’s the debut film of Zach Lipovsky, the special effects…
Starcrash
Starcrash (original Italian title Scontri stellari oltre la terza dimensione, literally “stellar clashes beyond the third dimension”) is an Italian 1978 science fiction film, which was also released under the English title of The Adventures of Stella Star (in the…