Five Easy Questions: TURA SATANA
There are Legends, there are Icons, there are Super-women – and then there is TURA SATANA, the immortal star of Russ Meyer’s masterpiece Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! (1965) as well as many other cult classics, who boldly embodies all three…
Five Easy Questions: ZOMBIE MUSIC MAKER CHIP GUBERA
CHIP GUBERA is an educator, filmmaker, zombie song-writer and masked wrestler enabler, not necessarily in that order. In anticipation of the May 8 2009 regional theatrical release of his astounding zombie musical Song of the Dead, we caught up with…
Five Easy Questions: FRED OLEN RAY
FRED OLEN RAY is a man of and for the people. People like us. He knows what we want, and he delivers, again and again, dedicating his own considerable talents, sweat, money and energy to one thrilling film project after…
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead Starts April 17th
“Makes Borat look like The Sound of Music… very guilty and gross pleasures!” KEVIN WILLIAMSON, THE CALGARY SUN (CANADA) Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is cinema’s first chicken-zombie horror-comedy… with musical numbers! When well-meaning but somewhat dim Arbie (Jason…
MIL MASCARAS VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY: Monsters in Margaritaville
“These are not my pajamas” As impressive as Mickey Rourke was in The Wrestler, the true macho mangler comeback story of late is Mil Mascaras. The 60something Mexican icon gained international fame for his innovative wrestling techniques and flamboyant costumes…
Five Easy Questions: LUCHA RESURRECTOR JEFFREY UHLMANN
JEFFREY UHLMANN is not an idiot, to put it plainly. He has a PhD in robot engineering from Oxford (the one over there, yes) and a M.S. in computer science and to top it off, a B.A. from the University…
Five Easy Questions: JIM WYNORSKI
JIM WYNORSKI , International B Movie Man of Action and a native of Long Island, is a multi-talented writer/producer/director with over 70 genre films to his credit. His many B classics combining the Basics of Breasts, Blood and Beasts include…
Lloyd Kaufman’s POULTRYGEIST: Not for chickens
GRAB YOUR SURF BOARDS AND SKUNK APE REPELLENT STOMP SHOUT SCREAM OPENS APRIL 10th Lloyd Kaufman has a nose for gory social satire…or he used to…it’s around here somewhere… If you stayed up late in a cheap motel…
Help Us Get BRAIN DEAD and JACK SAYS in Theatres
Hello one of the B Movie loving folks at Monogram Releasing here, we are working hard to make sure Brain Dead, a great horror film by 80’s auteur Kevin Tenney and Jack Says, a super British Noir Thriller get the…
Five Easy Questions: TED V. MIKELS
Monica Tiki Goddess, Ted V Mikels, Will the Thrill, Vegas, October 2001 The term “living legend” tends to get overused, but in the case of TED V. MIKELS, it can’t be overstated. Ted is the Energizer Bunny of grindhouse…
The British Invasion “Jack Says” Opens Friday
This film is one of the UK’s best indie features to come out in a long time, and Guy Ritchie had better watch out – because these guys have got plenty of raw talent to back everything up! Not to…
Five Easy Questions: JAY WADE EDWARDS
JAY WADE EDWARDS provides triple threat duty as producer/director/writer of the new ’60s-style beach party/monster musical STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!, playing in select theaters starting April 10 from Monogram Releasing. This fun, freaky flick is a perfect recreation/re-realization (but not “re-imagining”)…
Now Playing At The B Movie Nation
Demonsamongus is a dark and creepy horror set in rural Victoria, Australia on the eve of Christmas in the small isolated town of Miranda Falls. Joe Melton has just moved into town, retreating from the hectic life of the city…
Five Easy Questions: SIMON PHILLIPS
Film Noir is a uniquely American product, but its influences over the decades have stretched far beyond Yankee borders – in fact, you can feel its resonance across the Atlantic, where the French coined the term and designated the genre…
Five Easy Questions: STUART SIMPSON
“Throw another leg on the barby,mate!” Everyone was horrified by the recent wildfires that swept Australia. But few have heard of, or reckoned with, the other horrors afflicting the Outback these days, specifically the supernatural monster outbreak so grimly and…
Five Easy Questions: LLOYD KAUFMAN
With Uncle Lloyd, B Movie Celebration, September ’08 LLOYD KAUFMAN is to cult movies what Alpo is to dog food. He’s a recognized, celebrated brand name boasting a tried-and-true tradition you don’t mess with, reliable and undeniable. His underground film…
THE INCREDIBLY STRANGE CREATURES WHO STOPPED LIVING AND BECAME MIXED-UP ZOMBIES (1963)
My dear, departed friend, cult movie god RAY DENNIS STECKLER was a frequent guest at my live Thrillville show. One of the highlights of my so-called career, and life, was chasing Ray (in his trademark screen alias “Cash Flagg” hood) around…
THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON (1959)
The late Robert Clarke appeared in a number of cult sci-fi classics including The Man From Planet X (1951) and Beyond the Time Barrier (1960), but the one he’ll be best remembered for is 1959’s THE HIDEOUS SUN DEMON,…
Monogram Releasing presents STOMP! SHOUT! SCREAM!
The ’60s “beach party” craze briefly blended with monster movie mores in vintage classics like Horror of Party Beach (1963), The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965), and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966). Now there’s a 21st Century…
DRACULA VS FRANKENSTEIN/MAD DOCTOR OF BLOOD ISLAND (Original Soundtracks)
New Jersey’s Elysee Productions has unearthed two tawdry, torrid treasures from the salt mines of sleazy drive-in cinema history: the complete and original scores for Al Adamson’s notorious monster-match Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971) and Eddie Romero’s equally infamous tropical terror…