Beyond Evil (1980)
I am a sincere horror movie fan. As such, I am extremely forgiving—indeed, my friends would argue I have no standards at all. To shake up this dynamic even more, there is a class of film that forgiving fans feel…
The Glove (1979)
A film like this can’t be rated on any normative 1-10 scale which we usually enlist to appraise the world’s great cinema landmarks. This movie appeals only to the shrewder connoisseur of the halt and the lame, the distressed, and…
Scream of Fear (1961)
Yes, this is indeed a very nice little horror film. It is chilling and suspense. The acting of the three major actors is really well done, they all fit the roles, and the whole atmosphere of the film has maked…
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Dario Argento has come a long way since his first giallo. With classics such as Deep Red, Suspiria and Tenebrae under his belt he is often recognised as Italy’s greatest horror director (rightly so). His style that he uses in…
The House by the Cemetery (1981)
A family formed by Norman Boyle (Paolo Malco), wife (Katriona MacColl, Fulci’s ordinary) and son (Frezza) move an old mansion in New England outside Boston close a graveyard . Norman advised by professor Muller (secondary role by Lucio Fulci) has…
The Lost World (1925)
In this 1925 silent era film, a Professor Challenger (Wallace Beery) leads a group of British explorers to South America, to prove to the civilized world that there exists a land of living prehistoric creatures. What the explorers find is…
Velvet Smooth (1976)
For a low-budget 70’s martial arts film, I thought it was pretty entertaining. The soundtrack is really a hoot, as are the sets and costumes. I especially enjoyed the scene where King and Velvet are on the sofa and you…
Toxic Zombies (1980)
The DEA spray a bunch of marijuana growing hippies with an experimental crop killing spray and they turn into bloodthirsty zombies who roam the countryside chewing people up.Charles McCrann’s “Bloodeaters” is a low budget zombie film which was amazingly banned…
The Hard Ride (1971)
(Some Spoilers) More like a “Guess who’s coming to the Funeral” type movie then the usual biker flick of the 1960’s and 70’s cranked out by AIP Pictures. “The Hard Ride” tries very hard to make some kind of social…
Inseminoid (1981)
An expedition team investigating a planet faces terror as a woman on the team gets raped by an alien (with something that looked like a plastic pipe filled with green ooze) and starts killing her colleagues. The team will have…
The Amazons (1973)
If you want to see some naked women, riding horses, throwing spears, female warriors fighting each other or with men, or Angelo Infanti eating an apple in almost any scene, this is the film for you. A pile of barren…
Queen of Blood (1968)
Is ‘Planet Of Blood’ a good movie or a good bad one? I’ve watched it three times this week and I’m still not sure. The print on the DVD I bought was lousy, yet there looked like there were some…
Drilling Down On The Truth, Movie Style
I really like writing these weekly essays. For me, it’s a way of saying thank you for the experience that is the movies. One of the things I do after writing my first draft I try to fact-check what I…
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
American Ninja 3 is almost universally hated by fans of the first two films, probably because Michael Dudikoff does not reprise his role as Joe Armstrong and ‘new blood’ was cast instead. Perhaps it failed because it dared to carry…
The Psychopath (1966)
Freddie Francis continues to be one of my all-time favorite directors(not to mention his superb work in Cinematography) and here’s another fine effort from him for Amicus. A serial killer seems bent on striking at 4 men involved in a…
Big Bad Mama (1974)
Angie Dickinson got the role of her career playing the title character, a Texas mother of two teenage girls (Susan Sennett, Robbie Lee) who grows tired of being poor and decides to turn to robbery. Along the way she picks…
The Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983)
Director Jules Harrison’s (aka Giuliano Carnimeo) low-budget Italian / Spanish blend of “The Road Warrior” and Death Race” blows up all over the screen with exciting car crashes and chases. To add even more camp to the movie, the most…
A Piece of the Action (1977)
The third, and more serious, of the 1970’s Bill Cosby/Sidney Poitier films. This time, Cosby is a thief and Poitier a con artist who are blackmailed into helping a community center. They have three weeks to take a group of…
Seven (1979)
This was Andy Sidaris’ second film, and it follows the formula for all the ones that followed: spectacular scenery, even more spectacular women in various and frequent stages of nudity, good action scenes, goofy humor. The plot is about seven…