Children of the Corn
Narrator Job (Robby Kiger) relates the tale of Gatlin, NE, where one day the children, led by a boy preacher named Isaac (John Franklin), rose up and slaughtered all the grown-ups. A few years later, Job and his sister, Sarah…
Is Jaws The Most Influentiual Movie Of All Time
Few films if any have proven so influential in so many areas of the movie industry as Jaws. It established Steven Spielberg as the wunderkind filmmaker; he would go on to become the most well-known and popular filmmaker since Alfred…
Jaws
Is there any other modern film that has had a bigger, more lasting impact on the film industry as we know it today than Steven Speilberg’s 1975 film Jaws? I think you can probably make a case that there isn’t….
Fun Horror
For many of us, watching scary movies as kids is a memorable experience growing up. Staying up late on a Saturday night with the lights off, knowing full well what you were watching wasn’t very good, but it was scary…
ParaNorman And Movies That Go Bump In The Night
Halloween is still more than two months away, but ghosts are filling up movie theaters like it’s already October. “ParaNorman,”a stop-motion animated film about a boy who talks to ghosts and zombies, and “The Awakening,” a period tale of a…
Oregon B Bounty
“Barfly” Celebrate the birthday of author Charles Bukowski with a screening of this Barbet Schroeder film and a selection of readings from the late poet and novelist’s works. (Hollywood Theatre, Saturday only) “The Bastard Swordsman” 35mm martial arts goodness: a…
Wrestling and Scooby Doo
Movie website Deadline.com is reporting that WWE Studios has inked a deal with Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to co-produce a future animated Scooby-Doo movie. Per Deadline, the as-yet-untitled film, currently set for a straight-to-DVD release, will have a wrestling theme…
Expendables 2
Capping off the summer box office with explosive action, “The Expendables 2” offers the send-off that adrenaline junkies are seeking before the more sedate pace of fall releases. As he proved with the original installment, Sylvester Stallone grasps the action-oriented…
It’s Time To Call In The B-Team
It’s a momentous day for longtime action fans today as the likes of Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren join forces on screen in The Expendables 2 [read our review here]. However,…
Walking Dead Spin-Off?
The Walking Dead could get a movie spinoff, a report has claimed. The project has been discussed in “non-business conversations”, according to Bloody Disgusting. Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman appeared to rule out a movie version in 2010, saying: “I…
Sing-A-Long With Frankenweenie
Karen O has written and recorded a new song for Tim Burton’s upcoming movie Frankenweenie. ‘Strange Love’ will appear over the end credits of the film and also be included on the 14-track Frankenweenie Unleashed! compilation. “Tim wanted an unconventional…
Movie Nerds
Sometimes dumb people will use the phrase “B-movie” to describe a movie that’s bad, or that they didn’t like, or that was boring, or stupid, or incompetently made. What these people don’t realize is that the “B” in B-movie actually…
The ‘Rifftrax’ guys are coming to O.C. theaters
Michael J. Nelson had a good run on “Mystery Science Theater 3000,” the TV series on which he, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett delivered a running commentary of wisecracks and put-downs over bad B-movies with names such as “Girls Town,”…
50 Foot Cheerleader
We recently gave you guys early word on Roger Corman’s upcoming flick, Attack of the 50 Foot Cheerleader, and while we didn’t have much for you, I knew something awesome was brewing and thankfully I was right. If you love…
The Butterfly Effect
In some ways, it’s hard to blame studios for remakes like this. The exec’s must love pitches for movies like The Butterfly Effect 2: take a popular movie, write a script built around the same premise, hire some b-list actors,…
Lupe Velez
Lupe Velez was a dynamo whose talent popped off the screen. The Mexican-born beauty, who came to fame in Douglas Fairbanks’ 1927 adventure, “The Gaucho,” could do anything — comedy, musicals, drama. And she could hold her own with the…
No Box Office Surprise With Bourne
Hollywood didn’t so much celebrate this weekend as breathe a sigh of relief. Three new movies —”The Bourne Legacy,””The Campaign”and”Hope Springs”— opened right around where their studio backers had hoped. All fell well short of out-of-the-gate hit status but none…
Ukrainian Werewolf Flick Syvenir
The 6th Annual B-Movie Celebration’s Film Festival in Columbus, Indiana is welcoming the Ukrainian horror film Syvenir next month and a English sub-titled trailer has found its way online. Directed by Alexandr and Vyacheslav Aleshechkin, this werewolf – or tale…
The B Team,
We got to interview Don “The Dragon” Wilson, who acknowledges his status as a Martial Arts B-Movie star, for his role in the short Liberator. We’ll have the full interview with Wilson posted this week, but he gave us some…
Jaws
This is still my all-time-favorite film, and it will probably remain so until my dying day. Getting this on Blu-ray equates to one of the greatest joys I’ve ever achieved via a TV set. The completely restored film looks and…