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…
The Vulture
1967, Starring Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford. Directed by Lawrence Huntington. Only the second full-length horror film to be produced in Canada (the first being the trippy 3-D flick The Mask, released in 1961), 1967’s The Vulture is one…
Cashing In On The Eighties
If I’d known the ’80s were so great, I’d have paid more attention while I was living through them. But they must have been because, for the past couple of years, Hollywood has been remaking and “rebooting” movies from the…
Francesco DeMasi
Francesco De Masi was an Italian conductor and film score composer. Born on the 11th January 1930 He studied composition at the San Pietro a Maiella in Naples, under the guidance of Achille Longo, who was also his uncle. De…
Rambo One More Time
Hollywood veteran Sylvester Stallone has confirmed his legendary action hero Rambo may make a return to the big screen for one last battle. Stallone talked about making another movie to end Rambo’s story during a recent appearance in Rome for…
Remakes Are Bad Business
I went to see RED DAWN and was bitterly disappointed. Studios are fixated on the idea of pre-sold or recognizable brands abdd sometimes they rely too much on those brands. But it’s still much easier to make a buck on….
A Monster Of An Interview
An Interview with Gila by Robert Hood: RH: Welcome once again to the Backbrain, Gila. How’s it feel now that the film’s in the can and has even premiered. Gila: Feels great! I got a bigger hole in the ground…
The Golden Turkey Awards
The Golden Turkey Awards is a 1980 book by film critic Michael Medved and his brother Harry Medved. The book awards the fictional “Golden Turkey Awards” to films judged by the authors as poor in quality, and to directors and…
Best Thanksgiving B Movies
Blood Freak (1972) Okay, so this movie doesn’t revolve around Thanksgiving, but it does revolve around a deranged man with a mutant turkey head killing people. Still interested? Read on. This movie is probably the hardest movie to find, I…
Help Us Promote Gila!
Hey want to see GILA! gracing the SYFY channel. maybe give them a little nudge about you wanting to see this Wynorski classic on the SYFY Channel …and of course your undying appreciation for doing so. Please write them at…
Mockbuster Malady
Warner Bros, New Line Cinema, MGM and The Hobbit producer Saul Zaentz want to stop them using the word Hobbit in the title of the “knockoff film”. They claim The Asylum is “free-riding” on the worldwide promotional campaign for Peter…
Best and Worst B Movie Monsters
It’s been hailed as B-Movie campalicious because it boasts what is supposedly the lamest monster ever committed to celluloid. Robot Monster, the 1953 science-fiction schlocker, famously features a bloke in a gorilla suit wearing a diving helmet tormenting pretty ladies….
The Pharoah’s Curse
Nicknamed “Roll ‘Em” Sholem for his unpretentious efficiency, director Lee Sholem had worked with Tarzan, Superman, Jungle Jim, Ma and Pa Kettle and Tobor the Great by the time he wrapped his head around his first and only “mummy” movie,…
The Highest of Low Standards: How ‘MST3K’ Picked Movies to Mock
by Benjamin Vigeant The scene, as I remember it, is like this: Ally Farson is in the kitchen with her emotionally abusive mother having a lengthy argument. Ally, as we’ve learned earlier, is fairly unhinged and has recently started a…
Red Dawn
Red Dawn is generic as it gets. And that’s the good part. The cinematography, pacing (especially in the first 55 minutes), and storytelling is cohesive as a Donald Trump speech – an incoherent rant. But for those that fantasize about…
Corman In Tucson
Since selling his first script in 1953, Roger Corman has made more than 400 films and distributed countless others, so it’s safe to say he’s been a busy man for the last 60 or so years. • Even at the…
Piranaconda Hits DVD
Fans of Roger Corman rejoice! Piranhaconda has been unleashed and its making its way to a DVD near you! Yep, mark this date down, January 7, 2013 see’s the release of Roger Corman produced flick Piranhaconda, and we have the…
No No Troma:Father’s Day in Australia
Australia has banned the release of North American horror comedy Father’s Day, about a man intent on avenging his father’s killing. The film was directed by Adam Brooks and produced by Canada’s Astron-6, with global distribution by Troma Entertainment. The…
The Manborg Embrace
If Halloween is about dressing up in strange costumes and creating questionable, gory entertainment, the zero-budget movie Manborg may be your best haunting season choice for 2012. After all, dressing up and acting out is what the local film collective…
The Fantastic Four: Revenge of the Invisible Film
With the triumphant arrival of Captain America, another comic-book superhero has made his mark at the movies. Frankly, I’ve not enough of a comic-book geek to fully appreciate films like this one. When I was Roger Corman’s story editor at…