Good Bye Gore Roger Corman
At 87 years old, Roger Corman is a twinkly gent. He walks with a pronounced stoop, and speaks in careful, precise sentences, making considerable effort not to waste a word. It’s hard to believe the career this benign legend has…
Moments That Made The Movies
Advertisement The name of David Thomson’s new book is “Moments That Made the Movies” (Thames and Hudson, 302 pages, $39.95). His basic premise in this beautifully illustrated book is sound – that it is moments from movies that we retain…
Lake Placid vs. Anaconda
Believe it or not, Lake Placid vs. Anaconda is a real motion picture that reportedly begins filming next month. The folks at SyFy were way ahead of their time. In an attempt to capitalize on the B-movie boom that followed…
Podcast: Recap Of The 2013 B Movie Celebration
Kevin Bachelder from the Saturday B Movie Reel podcast recorded an audio recap of his experiences at The 2013 B Movie Celebration. You can listen to (aka stream) the podcast right now by clicking on the play button at the…
They Live
John Nada (Roddy Piper) comes to L.A. to search for a Job. On the same working place, when he finds a job. John meets Frank (Keith David), Frank asks John to come along. Where Frank stays with poor people and…
A Little Spanish Press On The B Movie Celebration, Dracula 0.9
Among the striking postal culture that draws those that are not so easily forget . For example, those who made the filming of a horror film , a version of the classic Dracula more or less, in an enclave already…
Evil Dead 2
It is a rare occasion for a sequel to be better than the original, even more so for a low-budget B-movie. “Evil Dead II” is one of these few exceptions. Released in 1987, a solid six years after the first…
World War Z on Blu-Ray
In the entire history of feature film adaptations of literary works, none have been so dismissive of their sources as World War Z. Bar the title and the genre, Marc Forster’s film shares precious little in common with Max Brook’s…
The Worst Fanboys-Tongue Firmly In Cheek
Fanboys – people that are fanatical about a particular type of technology – should be loaded into a special space ship that flies directly from Earth to the burning, white-hot center of the Sun. Do these people even stop to…
Five Quick Questions with Brett Piper – “Queen Crab”
One of world premieres at this past B Movie Celebration was Brett Piper’s “Queen Crab.” “Slightly deranged young woman lives alone in an isolated cabin. Her best friend is a giant crab. B movie excitement ensues. An awesome new feature…
Snake Eater
You have to wonder who the intended audience is for this movie. The box says “As Dirty as Dirty Harry, as Dangerous as Deliverance.” Why they are comparing this 1989 film to movies from 20 years ago I do not…
Firebird 2015 AD
In Firebird 2015 AD picturesque Drumheller, Alberta stands in for the Iowa countryside getting ripped up by Darren McGavin’s bad, bad Turbo Am Firebird. McGavin, who you may recognize as the father in Bob Clark’s A Christmas Story stars in…
The Origins Of The Exorcist
The 1973 classic “The Exorcist,” an Oscar-winning horror film that is still considered to be one of the scariest ever made, and the book of the same name, were not simply imagined, but inspired by demon-purging rituals that took place…