The Barbarians (1987)
I have to admit that I loved this movie — it’s completely campy, it doesn’t take itself seriously for a moment, and it has few redeeming qualities. The actors — which is a loose description of what they are doing…
Annihilator (1986)
Mark Lindsay Chapman plays a reporter who discovers a plot by aliens/androids to begin a conquest of Earth. Unfortunately, he’s branded a fugitive when he is caught killing one of the cyborgs who replaced his girlfriend. His trip takes him…
Standing With Spielberg
This year I reluctantly watched the Oscars I have an ever increasing resentment for the studios, their masters and the premeditated erosion of cinema they instigate. I thought at best the show was tepid without a dynamic center. While some…
Cult of the Cobra (1955)
Six army buddies decide to do some sight-seeing among a cult of shape-shifters when they should have stayed in the bar and had a few more beers. The movie’s not as bad as the title suggests, thanks mainly to enthusiastic…
Class of 1999 (1990)
Recent teenage parolee Cody Culp returns to his anarchistic futuristic hood to find himself disgusted with his home life, alienated from his former gang(probably to his relief), and threatened by the school’s newest bullies: three robotic teachers, implemented by the…
Road Games (1981)
The Hitchcockian story of a trucker delivering meat across Australia who becomes entangled in a possible mystery involving an unapprehensible serial killer who may or may not have murdered a helpless hitchhiker traveling the roads he’s driving on. Often referred…
Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (1977)
A plane carrying a payload of Ecuadorian coffee beans bound for the US, plunges into a field in the struggling town of Finleyville. When rescuers discover that two survivors appear to be afflicted by a deadly plague-like condition, the townspeople…