Starcrash (1978)
In the same vein as Jason of Star Command and Flesh Gordon, Starcrash is a campy, fun throwback to the old serials of the 30s and 40s. It looks, feels, and tastes like an old serial, minus the chapters. Yep,…
The Fast and the Furious (1954)
This wonderful little picture proves that not every movie shot in black and white on a low budget in the early ’50’s, with plenty of cops, crooks, and guns is film noir. It starts out hinting that direction, though. Frank…
Avalanche (1978)
Checking in rather late, though not at the tail end, in the 1970’s disaster movie cycle, this Roger Corman cheapie is only entertaining in fits and starts. Hudson (looking ragged and drunk at times) has just built a huge winter…
The Haunted Palace (1963)
In 1765,evil warlock Joseph Curwen(Vincent Price)is lynched by the villagers and burnt alive for performing sorcery and for abducting some of the local women.Before he perishes,he puts a curse on the inhabitants of Arkham and their offspring.One hundred and ten…
Munster, Go Home! (1966)
After appearing in 57 of 70 television episodes as Marilyn Munster one would think Pat Priest would have been included in The Munster’s FIRST feature length film. There was some lame excuse that she was too old, even though the…
Dead of Night (1945)
Dead of Night is responsible for so many films made in the horror genre, because it was the first that took a huge gamble and pieced several unconnected stories together within a narrative that loosely keeps them together. Tales From…
Darkman (1990)
At the time Darkman was an oddity. It was an R rated film in the superhero genre (dominated at the time by Batman) which was for kids/families. Along comes Sam Rami to make an “adult” superhero movie with horror overtones….
Dark Star 1974
Dark Star (1974) was a student film that John Carpenter and Dan O’Bannon worked on while they were in college. They later found a film distributor who asked them to expand it to feature film length. The movie takes place…
Dark Intruder (1965)
Leslie Nielsen is energetic, to say the least, as Bret Kingsford, ostensibly a playboy to everyone he knows in late 19th century San Francisco. But there is more to him than meets the eye. He is an expert on the…
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
What we have here is a good old 50’s sci-fi B movie that’s a great example of the expression “It’s so bad it’s good”. The conflict here is that when this movie was made, it was meant to be serious…
Sharing The Movies, Sharing Ourselves
In North America, one of the key rites of passage was owning your first car. Mine was a Buick Country Estate Wagon, green in color and big. On the first day I owned that beast, I rallied my movie loving…
Cannibals in the Streets i “1980”
A cannibal-movie that actually tries and succeeds to be different. This movie transcends the cannibal genre and becomes something else. You’ll have to get past the silly & inept Vietnam opening-scene, but then this movie turns into an urban tale…
Planet of Dinosaurs (1977)
Planet of Dinosaurs was one of those movies which I wanted for ages but got hold of it eventually. A spaceship crashes onto a mysterious planet and its occupants discover they are millions of years into the past as this…
The Pit and the Pendulum (1961)
‘Pit And The Pendulum’ sees b-grade legend Roger Corman (‘Little Shop Of Horrors’), talented suspense writer Richard Matheson (‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’), and horror master Vincent Price (‘The Tingler’) try and recreate the success of their first Poe adaptation ‘House…
Pickup on 101 (1972)
This used to play on late night TV all the time. A hobo (Jack Albertson), a runaway (Leslie Ann Warren) & an aspiring folk musician (Martin Sheen) hitchhike their way to California. This being a 1970s TV flick of course…
Phenomena (1985)
In Switzerland, the teenager Jennifer Corvino (Jennifer Connelly), daughter of a famous actor, arrives in an expensive board school and shares her room with the French schoolmate Sophie (Federica Mastroianni). Jennifer is a sleepwalker, is capable of telepathically communicate with…
Phantom from Space (1953)
As low-budget 1950’s sci-fi stuff goes, this movie turns out to be relatively entertaining, certainly better than a lot of similar type movies from the era. The movie is set on a single night, and follows various government officials (police,…
The Other (1972)
“The Other” is an adaptation of the Thomas Tryon novel, scripted (and executive produced) by Tryon himself, which tells us a story of evil set against the backdrop of a peaceful farming community in Depression era Connecticut. Director Robert Mulligan…
Operation Bikini (1963)
I love awful movies, and this is one of the most bizarre, awful movies I’ve seen in awhile. And to think it was set during WW II, the one we won. The director must have been an Ed Wood devotee…
The One Armed Executioner (1981)
eah, We all have seen some of those real good modern martial arts movies and they are all well and good (Like things with Chow Yun-Fat or Jackie Chan) but we must not forget these types of movies–low budget laugh…