Seedy Backdrop Of B’s
Check out this particularly lazy bit of stage management from 1955 b-movie extraordinaire ‘The Creature With The Atomic Brain‘. When b-movie journeyman, and certifued Deadly Movies Icon, Richard Denning comes home to the little wife (slapping her ass on the…
Starship Invasions
Made in the late 1970s, Starship Invasions was a fairly blatant attempt to capitalize on the resurgence of interest in sci-fi spearheaded by Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. This obviously low-budget attempt may have unconvincing sets…
Lionel Shenken
For a short time in the 1980s, Emmeritus was CanCult’s king—not in quality, but in sheer quantity. Like Meridian, Cinpix, and Quadrant before it, the largely invisible Hamilton-based Emmeritus Productions was a resolutely independent venture dedicated to crafting unique genre…
Horrified B-Movie Victims
If you love monster movies, you will love the Horrified B-Movie Victims Play Set. Don’t you love those old time monster films with that bloated blob oozing after that scream queen? Well, now you can re-enact your favorite scenes anywhere,…
Western Costume
Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Russell Crowe made an appearance at Wednesday night’s Western Costume Company: The First 100 Years celebration, held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. So did Douglas Fairbanks, Vivienne Leigh, Clark Cable, George C….
Abraham Lincoln: Ashamed of this movie
Well, at least nobody’s going to wander into “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter” wondering what they’re getting into. Really, too many movies hide behind meaningless come-ons. Who, exactly, are these “People Like Us”? What is “The Magic of Belle Isle”? You…
Enzo G. Castellari
Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back (Vado… l’ammazzo e torno, 1967), One Dollar Too…
Good Times Bad Times
The “B” in the term, B-movie does not stand for “bad.” But it could. B-movies were a by-product of the block booking system, when Hollywood required theaters to purchase a secondary feature if those theaters wanted to present the A-movie….
Truth Behind Abraham Lincoln
When faced with a tone-deaf would-be fanboy film, it’s hard not to think about Elizabeth Kubler-Ross. The woman who popularized the “five stages of dying” was also right on the money in describing all that went through my mind during…
Richard Lynch, B-Movie Veteran
Richard Lynch, an actor who needs no introduction to those who grew up watching B-movies in the 80′s, passed away on Tuesday at his home in Palm Springs, California. Specific details surrounding his death have not been released. He was…
SYFY: Fun and Fear
Toss pop-culture mainstays like Danny Bonaduce, Edward Furlong and Joey Fatone into a vat loaded with giant spiders, Bigfoot, killer sharks and a piranha-anaconda hybrid. The result: the summer batch of Syfy channel Saturday Original Movies packed with blood, guts,…
Richard Lynch Passes
“Halloween” actor Richard Lynch, who became a staple in horror and science-fiction movies with his scarred facial features, has died at age 76, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Lynch’s representative, Mike Baronas, told Reuters that Lynch’s body was discovered by…
Get Your B-movie Fix
When Scared Stiff premiered last week night at The Bar, a small crowd of bizarro movie buffs gathered to see cult classic Plan 9 From Outer Space. But it wasn’t just the campy Ed Wood-directed flick that brought folks in…
Creature
Imagine a space saga where the girls looked straight out of an Eighties music video and the sets are so very obvious and cheap. Add to the proceedings a black and slimy “creature” that borrows more than a little from…
Susan Tyrell Passes
Oscar-nominated actress Susan Tyrrell, known for roles in offbeat films including John Waters’ “Cry-Baby,” has died. She was 67. Niece Amy Sweet tells the Associated Press that Tyrrell died Saturday in her sleep at home in Austin. A Travis County…
Vampire Hunter
With set-pieces that include a vertiginous stand-off atop a perilous, flaming train, and The Battle of Gettysburg re-imagined with vampires thrown in for good measure, there’s no doubting that the absurdly-titled Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter has all the makings of…
Monster Mash-up
If you happen to see brain-seeking zombies, many-eyed monsters and lab-created terrors roaming around downtown Elgin this weekend, don’t be alarmed — it just means Elgin horror fans are celebrating the halfway mark until Halloween. Friday and Saturday will witness…
20 From SYFY
NEW YORK – June 12, 2012 – To celebrate Syfy’s June extravaganza of four Saturday Original Movies – Jersey Shore Shark Attack (6/9), Piranhaconda (6/16), Arachnoquake (6/23) and Bigfoot (6/30) – Syfy Digital is offering fans a remarkable 20 movies…
A Piranhaconda Summer-NYT
There’s a surprising amount of television this summer that threatens to be good for you: “The Newsroom” on HBO. “Michael Wood’s Story of England” on PBS. “N.Y. Med” on ABC. “Political Animals” on USA. You might as well still be…
Midnight Movie Bucks
It’s no secret the movie industry is hurting and looking for new ways to charge us more when it comes to ticket sales. Fortunately, 3-D and IMAX showings have sated that need for now, but what’s next? How will they…