Prates Of Dark Water
Last week, we discussed the potential of a feature adaptation of Disney’s Gargoyles, a dark and Gothic animated serial from the mid-1990s. There was a good amount of support for the idea and more than a fair share of nostalgia…
Possession
Two new films tanked at the box office this weekend, resulting in the lowest ticket sales in more than a decade. The weekend’s winner was a holdover: “The Possession,” the horror flick that topped the box office over the Labor…
ParaNorman
Opening in 4:3 with scratchy studio logos and a “Feature Presentation” snippet, with dirt, grain and sound-jerking like a messed-up print of a well-worn B movie, ParaNorman opens in a manner that cements itself early in the nerdiness of an…
Dredd 3D
Film festivals and comic book movies typically don’t mix. Movies based on popular paneled heroes generally get their start at conventions or through marketing departments. Yet, thanks to TIFF’s Midnight Madness program a certain gruff helmet sporting antihero from the…
Mary Woronov
The actor: Mary Woronov first came to prominence in the New York artistic community through her work with Andy Warhol and the Theater Of The Ridiculous, but it was her work with famed producer Roger Corman that brought her to…
Bachelorette
A trio of footloose bridesmaids, out on the town on the eve of the wedding, with mischief on their minds — sounds like the setup for three coins in a fountain of fun. But as it goes with most such…
The Hole
The 2009 PG-13 supernatural thriller will descend on Blu-ray this October. In an early announcement to retailers, Big Air Studios is prepping ‘The Hole’ for a Blu-ray release on October 2. Order The Indiana Jones Blu-ray Collection Coming to Blu-ray…
Miami Connection
The 1987 B-movie from Y.K. Kim and Park Woo-sang explodes on Blu-ray this December! In an early announcement to retailers, Image Entertainment says they are working on ‘Miami Connection’ for a Blu-ray release on December 11. Order The Indiana Jones…
Hansel and Gretl Witch hunter
The popular mashup movie style is just a continuation of the trend towards fan-fuelled, B-moviesque, exploitation-inspired material epitomised by Samuel L Jackson’s Snakes on a Plane bellyflop a few years back. The same tendency was also partly responsible for the…
Beastmaster
My main thought while watching Beastmaster for the first time in about twenty-five years was “Holy crap I can’t believe my parents actually let me see this movie. There are TITS.” There are also ferrets. FUNNY ferrets. And Tanya Roberts…
Bianca Kills
It was recently announced that rising B movie star Bianca Barnett (ALBINO FARM, DEAD INSIDE) has taken a starring role in the upcoming EXPERIMENTS IN KILLING. Directed by Joseph Christiana (THE NIGHTMARE, MOTEL AMERICANA VOL. II) the film is exactly…
AMC SOLD
Dalian Wanda Group Co. Ltd. of Beijing closed on its acquisition of locally based AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc., paying $2.6 billion and becoming the world’s largest movie theater owner in the process. The transaction effectively relieves AMC from its load…
Bollywood B’s
Bollywood is known for making larger than life and true to life films. However, B-grade movies have always been in news and many wannabe actors have paved their way to popularity with such films. Meghna Naidu and Himanshu Malik set…
Looper
Up until this week, all the attention around the sci-fi thriller Looper has been on Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s transformation into a younger version of Bruce Willis. In the film, written and directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Gordon-Levitt plays…
Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel was born in Brooklyn in 1938. He decided he wanted to direct animated movies when he was 11 and by 13 had spent a summer working at New York’s UPA animation studio. He majored in theater arts at…
Peter Cushing
Peter Cushing (May 26, 1913–August 11, 1994) was an English actor best known for his roles in the Hammer Studios horror films of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, as well as his performance as Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin in Star…
Death Race 2000
David Carradine stars in this classic cult creation. Deathrace 2000 is the 20th anniversary of the murderous trans-continental road race, or, in the words of the US president “what you all want”. You could lose this film in the repertoire…
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….