Splinter
Toby Wilkin is an incredibly talented director and an all around nice guy which is both pretty rare in Hollywood. Where most filmmakers and writers are busy stroking their own egos Toby Wilkins was busy making a truly fantastic monster…
Insectula
Below you can checkout the trailer for Michael Peterson’s Insectula and it is in a word awesome. I love b-movies and I love them even more when they are well polished machines featuring killer insects. Infestation is one of my…
The Good Doctor
“The Good Doctor” Technique isn’t everything. The crumminess of ’40s and ’50s B movies sometimes made them even darker, as though life were so grim there was no point in expending the effort to give them a little style. That’s…
Must See Horror
When it comes to shocks, movie fans have plenty of options. You could spend your entire movie-watching life just watching horror movies with big stars, big special effects, and big studios in the credits. But what would be the point…
The Possession
Moody and a little slow, with muted colors and a half-empty, alien-feeling suburban setting, Danish director Ole Bornedal’s “The Possession” is a nifty end-of-summer gift for horror buffs. (Understandably, the promotional campaign for this movie has emphasized producer Sam Raimi,…
Joker
It’s not every day that a sci-fi aficionado gets to site the example of Plan 9 From Outerspace. It’s that “blue moon” moment (which serendipitously falls tonight) when you get to hark back to the genius of Ed Wood Jr….
Veterans revel in B-grade flick
Veteran action cheese balls delight in brain-bypass a B-movie. And for an 80’s hangover it’s nearly two hours of thrilling escapism. Guns, fights, blood, death – all displayed in the way that Hollywood cinema delivered mega tonnes of back in…
A day in the life of a zombie horror movie extra
EVEN flesh-eating undead Nazis in rubber masks have a pecking order, as Jay Richardson found when he spent a day on the set of a Scottish zombie spectacular Shooting a zombie blockbuster in Glasgow last summer, graciously posing for photographs…
The Day
In the post-apocalyptic film world, the tactic du jour for tipping off an audience that civilization and its inhabitants have all but kicked it seems to be simple color correction — specifically, zapping the frame of any lively hues and…
25 Years of Horror, Occult and the Funk
Before Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, there was My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult (TKK). Formed in 1987, TKK paved the way for industrial music acts, such as Manson’s to flourish. Originally, My Life with the Thrill Kill…
The Tall Man
A quiet and remote location, a wintry cold, frightened townspeople — “The Tall Man” has the makings of a classic thriller. And for a while, this movie from Canadian director Pascal Laugier has a chilly, compellingly weird atmosphere. But then…
B-Movie Legends Troma Entertainment Releases 150 Films
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…
FALL MOVIE PREVIEW
There’s plenty of horror, comedy, action, animation, drama and even another video game adaptation making something for everyone in this month. Let’s take a closer look. OCTOBER 5 Nine films will be opening on October 5, three of them are…
Cockneys vs Zombies
Matthias Hoene’s FrightFest opener Cockneys vs Zombies (2012) is an enjoyable, bare-faced zomventure that delivers exactly what the title promises – a fun-filled, B-movie romp with plenty of thrills, spills and jellied eels. When construction workers unwittingly unleash a horde…
Possession
Are exorcisms culturally specific? The concept behind The Possession, a solid, Jewish-inflected B-movie riff on The Exorcist from director Ole Bornedal, can’t help but leave you wondering. Sure, a Catholic priest can attempt to take care of a demon, but…
Bait 3D
As a bit of old-fashioned B-movie silliness – perfect for late night programming slots – Bait 3D delivers enough gore and good-lookers to keep things interesting, and while it is high on concept and low on scripting, as shark attack…
The Drive-in Movie
Sometime around the summer of 1988, the program directors at every local T.V. station in the country must’ve gotten together in their war room and decided to stop showing B-movies on Saturday afternoons. “Why should we beg Crazy Eddie and…
Slice and Dice Action Hero
Up until very recently you could catch plastic surgery on parade simply by tuning into Desperate Housewives each week. But now that Wisteria Lane’s closed for good, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any other cosmetically tweaked ensembles on display in…
Monsters coming to theater group’s gala
It looks like sunny skies for Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company. The troupe of daring thespians finally has a home – at Studio 101, 1824 Spring St. – after 11 years of performing in art galleries, dance studios, nightclubs and other…
Screaming in High Heels
The DVD of “Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era” was released today. Edited for its TV debut earlier this year, the unrated DVD of “Screaming in High Heels” chronicles the careers of the…