Gunhed (1989) Ganheddo (original title)
Ganheddo was produced by the same Japanese studio which brought us Godzilla, and it shows… but in a good way. Where many, higher-budgeted films of the time were moving to computer-generated effects, Toho stuck with scale models and stop-animation, giving…
Night of Bloody Horror (1969)
Night of Bloody Horror is certainly not accurately named, but if you get into the atmosphere of ’60s and ’70s low budget exploitation films, then you’ll probably enjoy this campy Psycho copy. There’s some great music, some performed in club…
Warriors of the Apocalypse (1985)
After a nuclear war has decimated the planet, the few surviving inhabitants are forced to fend for themselves. As a result of these harsh circumstances a small group of men led by a man named “Trapper” (Michael James) wander the…
The Wacky World of Dr. Morgus (1962)
The Ghouls, who backed up Morgus on his theme song “Morgus the Magnificent,” included none other than fellow New Orleans institutions Dr. John and Frankie Ford (of “Sea Cruise” fame), so at least he has that going for him. Just…
The Ever-Evolving Movie Theater
I have been worried about the trends in movie-going for a while now. When they started selling chicken tenders and removing half their seats for the overstuffed loungers, I saw a deep trend away from a performance space and movement…
Devil Rider! (1970)
Basic impressions: It’s a Brad Grinter movie. For those who know that name, you know what you are walking into. For those who don’t, run far, far away, unless you like groaning at a movie for moving slow, having low-to-no…
Placer sangriento (1967)
Emilio Vierya strikes again! Or to be more accurate, Emilio Vierya strikes for the first time as this was the first of a series of bizarre horror films by Argentina’s most famous (and only famous) horror director. And though Vierya…
Portal to Hell!!! (2015)
It has slick and intelligent dialogue, delightful surprises, and ends with a shocking burst of energy. Readers of Lovecraft will appreciate the chants. This short is a delightful mix of soap opera and horror. The audience loved it, laughing and…
Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
A movie with a name like this and a star like Piper, you know what you are in for… a B movie. However, this B Movie is actually quite entertaining. It sort of plays (in a way) like Barbarella with…
Toad Warrior (1996)
“Toad Warrior” is a mixture between “Hell comes to Frogtown” and “The Roller Blade Seven” without the charm of the original “Frogtown” movie. Joe Estevez as Mr. Big Micky O Malley gives this one a fine comedy touch, legendary Conrad…
Legend of the Roller Blade Seven (1992)
THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, RETURN OF THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, and LEGEND OF THE ROLLER BLADE SEVEN, frame by frame. So, I believe I know these films as well as anyone, expect maybe the filmmaker, could know them. And, `Yes,’…
Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force (1989)
A B-movie classic with Kathleen Kinmont, Elizabeth Kaitan, and other actors who just give terrific performances to a movie with a limited budget. Without Kathleen Kinmont, and Elizabeth Kaitan this movie would have failed to keep me interested. The other…
Roller Blade (1986)
This is the kind of movie that you either love or love to hate. This is a deliberately campy and schlocky zero budget outing and director Jackson has even cast camp movie auteur Fred Olen Ray’s young son in this…
Funeral Home (1980)
An effectively spooky low-budget thriller that takes more inspiration from Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960) rather than Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), as so many horror films from this era did. A girl goes to help her grandmother with her new boarding house, a…
Bottom Feeder (2007)
Working on a clean-up crew, several workers are assigned to a new job at an abandoned medical testing lab and after going through the facility are ambushed by a large creature living in the tunnels from a chemical drug that…
The Land Unknown (1957)
A rip-roaring sci-fi adventure that has quite a lot going for it: a novel premise, a square-jawed hero, a lovely blond heroine, and several dinosaurs presented in a bizarre landscape. Universal’s ace effects artist Clifford Stine did a terrific job….
House of Horrors (1946)
In 1944, a strange looking actor (apparently as a result of an incident during The Great War in which his face was deformed) called Rondo Hatton made a film called The Pearl of Death (a part of the successful Sherlock…
Monsters (2010)
While there have been plenty of valid comparisons made between this film and last year’s sci-fi hit District – 9 (due solely to the fact that the two films share an admittedly similar global concept; that of aliens landing and…
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The wealthy Dr. William Barton (Jeff Morrow) organizes an expedition to the Florida Everglades with the scientists Dr. Thomas Morgan (Rex Reason), Dr. Borg (Maurice Manson) and Dr. Johnson (James Rawley) to capture the Creature. They navigate in the ship…
Hysteria (1965)
This is an unusual little surprise from the Hammer Studio’s and horror director Freddie Francis. It’s a thriller in the style of Hitchcock. The movie and story are well constructed and there are quite some plot twists and mysterious elements…