Five Quick Questions: Kevin Tenney
KEVIN TENNEY made his name as a famous, favorite cult horror director with his ’80s classics WITCHBOARD (1986) and NIGHT OF THE DEMONS (1988). His other entertaining credits include THE CELLAR (1989), PEACEMAKER (1990), and ENDANGERED SPECIES (2002). Besides being…
Five Easy Questions: Greydon Clark
GREYDON CLARK is a renaissance man of B movie cinema – actor/writer/producer & more over four decades of delectable decadence (and counting). Here is a brief but illuminating Q&A with this genre giant: Will the Thrill: Any standout memory or…
Mr. Bloody Valentine: George Mihalka
Your early producer Bob Presner told me that he met you after seeing a short film you did with your cinematographer Rodney Gibbons called Pizza to Go. That was our final student film, a 30-minute experimental satirical comedy based on…
Why I Love Night Of The Comet
Now, I’ll be upfront. I love “Night of the Comet.” It’s a movie that intrigued me 20 years ago, and I still get much pleasure from watching it today. I suspect that it is also a movie that will generate…
Laser Blast
Producer CHARLES BAND who has made some pretty dreadful films in his days (pretty much all on the cheap) presents us with LASERBLAST a film he made earlier in his career & is quiet possibly his worst. LASERBLAST follows the…
Hey It’s A New Gila Poster
How about another new poster for Jim Wynorski’s remake of the B-movie classic The Giant Gila Monster? Well, thanks to the guys over at Undead Backbrain, we have that sucker below, go check it out and see what you make…
The Cheetah Whores – Sharktopus theme music
I love theme music and when you watch ‘Sharktopus’ and the theme song begins your excitement for the movie elevates and you may even cheer on the Sharktopus. If I enjoy a song that much I need to find more…
Riz Ortolani
Riziero “Riz” Ortolani (born 4 September 1931 in Pesaro, Italy) is an Italian film composer. In the early 1950s Ortolani was founder and member of a jazz band of national Italian renown. His first score he wrote for the 1962…
The Neptune Factor
Produced rather expensively (for the time) by an independent Canadian film company, THE NEPTUNE FACTOR was picked up by 20th Century Fox and for the most part played on the bottom of a double bill with BATTLE FOR THE PLANET…
Black Christmas
1974’s Black Christmas is one of the most important Canadian horror films ever made, a decidedly gimmick-free spookshow that weaves terror and humor into a festive holiday package. Not only is it of interest to Canuxploitation enthusiasts for the Canadian…
Those Mexican Wacky B Movie Ads
John Cozzoli’s collection is frightening. Not because of its sheer size (though he does have over 500 film artifacts), but because Cozzoli’s ephemera all relates to lesser-known horror movies of the 20th century. Primarily devoted to Mexican lobby cards, or…
Marie Westbrook
Marie Westbrook has been in several B movies including ‘Evil Angel’ with Ving Rhames, and multiple movies by the Asylum, “100 Million B.C.”, “Hillside Cannibals”, “Dracula’s Curse” and “Titanic II”. In addition to acting she has a Physics/Chemistry degree from…
Corman Critical Of Films Made For Festivals’
The high-minded fare of the film festival circuit and the cheap thrills of B-movie pulp couldn’t seem farther apart, but the circuit will be closed when king of the B-movies Roger Corman heads the competition jury at this year’s Tokyo…
Ida Lupino: Queen B
If Samuel Fuller has a female counterpart it would have been Ida Lupino. A pioneering female filmmaker, she carved out her own world out of a raw cinematic wilderness . She took instead of waiting to have someone or some…
Sing -A-Long With Snake: The Score From Escape From New York
Escape From New York is another movie in John Carpenter’s long line of work that has reached cult status. Although a mild hit upon its initial release, like most of Carpenter’s films, it found its audience on cable and video….
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Wes Craven began his directing career in 1972 with the seminal The Last House on the Left, a gut-wrenching, cinéma vérité-style horror film that got up close and personal with unsuspecting audiences, setting a new standard for terror on the…
Roger
If you’re like me, the end of the summer movie season means it’ll be at least nine months before your next chance to see a superhero on the big screen trading deathblows with an alien. If you need an off-season…
The Rise Of The B Movie
Here is an overview of a course I taught at a local college The Rise of The B Movie From their beginnings to the present day, B movies have provided opportunities both for those coming up in the profession and…
Dark Star
In the middle of the 22nd century, mankind has reached a point in its technological advancement to enable colonization of the far reaches of the universe. Armed with artificially intelligent “Thermostellar Triggering Devices”, the scout ship Dark Star and its…
Live-In Fear upcoming
It’s that the time of the year when we’ll be saturated with previews of horror films through all media outlets. However, there will be some released this month that we may not be aware of. One I’m looking forward to…