Chillerama: Classic Horror B Movie Style
Chillerama is a collection of short films in the horror genre. It’s the closing night at the last drive-in theater in America and Cecil B. Kaufman, has planned a marathon of rare Ed Wood style B horror movies for one…
Rock and Roll High School
“Rock ‘N’ Roll High School” is like, the veritable predecessor for other great films such as “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” and “Singles.” It’s right in that same vein… I really liked this movie instantly. Usually stuff has to grow…
Horror Express
Part period adventure, part sci-fi thriller and part creature feature, Horror Express (1972, aka Panico en el Transiberiano) is an eclectic international production that was shot outside Madrid, Spain and was distinguished by the participation of Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing…
the Legend of Hell House
There’s no “welcome” mat at the Belasco House. Once you walk through the gate to approach the fog-enshrouded mansion the first thing you will notice are bricked-up windows, so that no one can see in – or out. This place…
Robert Davi Sings
If you Google “Las Vegas entertainment” you’ll get thousands of links to shows. Many of these shows claim to bring back the vintage vibe that made the city famous for its entertainment in the 60’s. You’ll also get lots of…
Enter The Dragon
In the mid-to-late ‘70s this eleven year old would pack a lunch, grab his allowance, lie to his parents about going to the museum and jump on a downtown bus for a full day of losing himself in whatever schlocky,…
Doris Wishman
Doris Wishman, a prolific independent director of truly tasteless movies — from nudist camp romps to the cult classic ”Bad Girls Go to Hell” — died on Aug. 10 in Miami. She lived in Coral Gables, Fla. She never revealed…
Veronica Carlson
In a three year period, Veronica Carlson was terrorized onscreen by three of Hammer Studios’ most famous male villains: Christopher Lee as Dracula in the 1968 film Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, Peter Cushing as Dr. Frankenstein in Frankenstein…
Drive-in Dream Girls
Drive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties by Tom Lisanti “Wildly entertaining … well-researched and informative.” – Editors, Paper; “Lisanti has managed to get some of the forgotten and near-forgotten bombshell divas of Grade B Cinema…
Corman’s The Fantastic Four
…It’s Clobberin’ Time? When Benjamin Grimm first uttered these words, it was his intent to pummel whatever evil menace that threatened humanity yet not even the all-knowing Watcher would’ve foreseen that such a battle cry would someday be meant for…
John Carter Vs. Tracey Lords
Yesterday I looked briefly at the mess Disney has made of marketing the $250,000+ John Carter, an epic based on Edgar Rice Burroughs’ (Tarzan) classic Martian adventures. That got me looking back in the Nerdvana archives at a much-older post…
Why B Movies?
Often the term B movie is thought to be one of derision and scorn. Low budget B or Genre filmmaking are thought to be second class or in some way inferior. We at the B Movie Celebration know otherwise. We…
Joe Bob Briggs
Joe Bob Briggs hails from Grapevine, Texas. Somewhere along the way, he saw a LOT of drive-in movies and became an expert on this particular type of film. In fact, he began to write about the films he saw, starting…
Kevin Tenney’s :The Cellar
Comanche Indians have trapped the evil of their land in a monster made up of a mixture of other animals. The Comanche have placed a protective spear in the ground to contain the evil. A young boy pulls the spear…
Mediocre?
Slumped in your chair as life’s meaninglessness washed over you like lava made of Brad Pitt’s bubble gum, you may have zoned out for the most tattletale bit of Sunday night’s Oscars telecast. (If you just skipped the whole shebang,…
El Monstro del Mar!
THE FILM: When Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s GRINDHOUSE hit theaters a few years ago, it seemed like everyone was bandying about the term “grindhouse” for any film remotely exploitive or moderately budgeted. Many filmmakers began copying the scratched, jumpy…
Adios Gringo
The fourth Gemma western of 1965, and the fourth hit. Adios Gringo even beat the two Ringo movies at the box office, ending third on the list of most successful westerns of the year, behind For a Few Dollars More…
What does the Academy have against fantasy (and science fiction)?
“Hugo” continued its dominance in the technical categories at the 84th Academy Awards as Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossmann, and Alex Henning won the Oscar for Visual Effects. The “Harry Potter” movies have earned billions of dollars and delighted…
Dr. Strangelove
Stanley Kubrick’s jet-black anti-nuke farce, from 1964, is being projected in the narrower screen format the writer-director intended—close to the shapes of old movies, TV tubes, and standard comic-book panels. It’s the perfect frame for Kubrick’s devastating deadpan burlesque of…
Parodies???
Vivid Entertainment contract director B. Skow has announced a slate of upcoming parodies in various stages of completion that will be released later this year. Skow just wrapped production of the adult comedy “ClerksXXX: A Porn Parody,” which spoofs the…