Doc Of The Dead
Perhaps the inevitable by-product of the recent zombie boom, Doc of the Dead is a playful and informative compendium of all things undead that eventually runs out of steam and is left spinning its wheels to pad the rest of…
The 15 Greatest B-Movie Directors
If you’re a director, and you’re on this list, then it’s a fairly safe bet that the cumulative output of your film career did not set the critical world ablaze, except perhaps with the light of hastily assembled torches (and…
Dawn of Planet of the Apes
WHY has the Planet of the Apes franchise endured in popular culture for the best part of 50 years? Maybe it’s simply that apes, as symbols, are so remarkably versatile. They can be cute, savage or noble: they can represent…
A Tribute to The Amazing Career of Don Murray
Don Murray.” If a bell rings when you hear the name, you are probably (1) a die-hard fan of ancient, edgy, noirish cinema and (2) more than 50 years old. I don’t believe I ever actually caught any of Don…
Lake Placid
At one time in our cultural history, David E. Kelly was important – so important that almost anything he did received a kind of unrealistic admiration that time has tempered and/or tainted. Before the application of years, efforts like ‘Picket…
Evil Ambitions/Satanic Yuppies A Film By Mark Burchett
Evil Ambitions is a campy little low-budget flick featuring a Satanic yuppie cult, sexy young women being sacrificed to the Devil, beautiful femme fatales, and a goofy newspaper reporter as the hero. It’s even got former Playboy lingerie model…
A Pioneer of Midwest Genre filmmaking, Mark Burchett passes
A pioneer of Midwest Genre filmmaking, Mark Burchett passed away today at the age of 54. Mark Burchett (born April 20, 1960) is a Hollywood film director, screenwriter and film producer of horror movies. Burchett was born in Cincinnati, Ohio….
Blood Lake on DVD & Bluray
Originally aired in May on Animal Planet, the successful James Cullen Bressack creature horror film Blood Lake will soon be available on DVD and Bluray. Bressack’s filmmaking always brings something bloody fresh to his films and Blood Lake is no…
Cry Vengeance (1954)
Cry Vengeance owes a debt to the previous year’s Fritz Lang film The Big Heat. It too tells the tale of an honest cop whose family was killed in a mob-engineered explosion and who sets out as a crazed vigilante…
The Tomb (2009)
To put it mildly, most of the Horror genre owes a huge debt to the works of Edgar Allan Poe. So many of the genre’s finest works of literature and cinema wouldn’t even exist without writings like “The Conqueror Worm”,…
Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965)
Three go-go dancers – Varla (Tura Satana), Rosie (Haji) and Billie (Lori Williams) – are racing their sports cars out in the desert when they meet up with a young man named Tommy (Ray Barlow) and his girlfriend Linda (Susan…
The Tomb of Love (1959)
The Indian Tomb was the second part of a pair of pictures directed by Fritz Lang, his first German productions since the 1930s, adapted from a screenplay he had himself worked on nearly thirty years earlier. The two of them…
Buddy Hutchins – Coming Soon
Buddy Hutchins Directed by: Jared Cohn Starring: Jamie Kennedy and Sara Malakul Lane Buddy Hutchins is just a regular guy doing his best to support a wife and two kids. A recovering alcoholic, Buddy hasn’t had a drink for the…
15th annual BlobFest coming to Phoenixville July 11-13
The 15th annual BlobFest, The Colonial Theatre’s kitschy, family-friendly event saluting the 1958 classic sci-fi movie “The Blob,” will take place July 11 through 13 at the theatre in Phoenixville. “The Blob” was filmed in and around Phoenixville, and The…
Jane and the Lost City (1987)
Jane and the Lost City is the story of a band of plucky but incompetent band of Allies in a race to fortune in diamonds with an equally incompetent band of Nazis. Along the way, both groups run into a…
Jake Speed (1986)
“Jake Speed” is a fine movie with a wonderful message. It has its flaws of course. At times it’s a little slow. It introduces its villain too far into the story. It’s action is paced at the rate of a…
The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
This version of “The Phantom of the Opera” was the second remake of the oft filmed classic tale was produced by England’s Hammer Studios who remade most of the old Universal B&W classics of the 30s and 40s. An Opera…
Sneak Peek Of ‘Sharknado 2: The Second’ One Released
Thought the first Sharknado was bad enough? Wait til you see this! Syfy has given fans a first-look at Sharknado 2: The Second One, the sequel to the highly popular B-movie, and it will not disappoint, depending on how you…
Dinosaur Island (1994)
Q: Who has two thumbs extended upward after watching “Dinosaur Island” on Netflix? A: The re-animated zombie corpse of Roger Ebert. Oh, and me, though that would make it four thumbs, not two. You know that you’re in the heart…
Missile to the Moon (1958)
Richard Cunha did not direct many movies but the few he did give us are fantastic. You know right away you are in an alternate universe when you watch this one. Hero Richard Travis pulls back a curtain to give…