La Notte dei Diavoli
Creepy, atmospheric, gory 70s Italian horror outing…but am I missing something here? RaroVideo has released The Night of the Devils (La Notte dei Diavoli), director Giorgio Gaslini’s 1972 vampire/vurdulak nightmare starring Gianni Garko, Agostina Belli (so beautiful), and Roberto Maldera….
THE GHASTLY LOVE OF JOHNNY X
What is The Ghastly Love of Johnny X? Is it science fiction? Is it a musical? Is it homage? Yes, yes, and yes. but above all it’s a completely unique, weird, wild, and wacky movie, from the unique, weird, wild,…
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:…
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…
Actresses You Should Know
With so many talented actresses in B movies it’s difficult to stand above the rest. These four young actresses have been in many recent movies and are booked for a lot more and they are quite talented. Frankly it’s time…
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…