Five Quick Questions W/’The Tentacles Claw’ Tara Manuel & Michael Rigler
Filmmaker Michael Rigler said after the B Movie Celebration premiere of ‘The Tentacles Claw’ that “you film what you can”. Simple, but with a 1200 Canadian dollar budget you better follow that rule or the film may not come out…
The Bay : A Troy King Review
Directed by Barry Levinson Written by Michael Wallach Ok first off I’m a BL fan, he has a spectacular body of work and has a real knack for telling a good story. The Bay of course is not exactly what…
The Fly (1986)
David Cronenberg burst onto the international filmmaking scene with the freaky 1976 horror film Shivers, which he quickly followed up with Rabid (1977). Both of these films were heavily subsidized by the Canadian government (as were Cronenberg’s earlier experimental feature…
It’s Rough Being A Guerrilla
His shoe-string budget zombie movie Colin proved the hit of the international festival circuit in 2008 and won him such high-profile fans as Hollywood legend Martin Scorsese. But it was while shooting a robbery scene for his new film Magpie…
The Next Cronenberg
Exploding heads, techno-genitals, mutant offspring, a humanoid fly. Such are some of the monstrous images in David Cronenberg’s early “body horror” films, a la “Videodrome,” “Scanners,” “The Brood” and, of course, 1986’s “The Fly. ” Now Cronenberg’s 32-year-old son, Brandon…
Elvis at the Movies, or Heartbreak Hotel Goes Hawaiian
I marked the 35th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley by remembering the happy days and nights I spent at the Heartbreak Hotel. Yes, there is one – and it’s right across the street from Graceland. I can’t quite…
‘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…
The Bay Directed By Barry Levinson
Starring mostly unknown actors and shot entirely on consumer-grade (or lower) video, The Bay apes a hypothetical work of citizen journalism released on a WikiLeaks-style exposé site, documenting a fictional disaster that killed off most of the population of Claridge,…
The Monstrously Bad Guys
Tonight is Halloween. Tonight what you won’t see are kids dressed as any of the following movie evil-doers because, to be blunt, kids are far too smart to want to be any of them. In fact, just the thought that…
Innocent Scares on Halloween
RED RUM, anyone? Halloween’s the perfect time to drink a toast to scary movies. Of course, scary is in the eye of the beholder. Personally, I like a good scare as much as the next gal. I’m not, though, a…
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 with Lloyd Kaufman’s Long Suffering Daughters
As we know Lloyd Kaufman is a legend for B movie horror and comedy horror. Beyond that his wife Patricia is the executive director of the New York State Governor’s Office for Motion Picture and Television Development. With all 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…
Suspiria
Suspiria(1977) is given its cult status in the USA partialy due to the extreme usage of colors. The colors in Suspiria(1977) gives it an artful flavor that makes the movie beautiful to watch. Argento uses the colors of blue, green,…
Dario
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk…
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…
The War of the Gargantuas
The 1968 film directed and screenplay by Ishiro Honda is entertaining. If you’re a B Movie fan you’ll appreciate the film quite a bit and pay no attention to the plastic army guys in toy tanks and the string on the…