From Beyond the Grave (1974)
Kevin Connor directed this anthology film, the last in a series from Amicus studios. Four stories adapted from author R. Chetwynd Hayes and starring Peter Cushing as an antique shop owner who sells items with supernatural curses to deserving customers:…
Hannie Caulder (1971)
woman pursuing those who did her wrong. And she’s not just any old cowgirl, as you may have noticed from the cast list. If the plot as a whole is not one of the most original, the great cast does…
Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967)
Frankenstein met the Wolfman, and they both met Abbott and Costello, so why shouldn’t country music greats Ferlin Husky and Merle Haggard meet Basil Rathbone and Lon Chaney, Jr? No reason a’tall. I was hoping for a real hoedown here,…
Fight for Survival (1977)
THE FIGHT FOR SHAOLIN TAMO MYSTIQUE is an odd little martial arts film, shot in Taiwan. The script incorporates lots of little fantastic touches that don’t really work very well on what is clearly a low budget, but somehow add…
Putting Your Eggs In The Wrong Basket, The Folly of Streaming
Any regular reader will understand that I really like movies. I am so lucky to have had a variety of movie-going experiences. I worked at theaters and even owned a couple and frankly loved every minute of it. I have…
Legacy of Satan (1974)
Bored architect turned devil worshipper Arthur (James Procter) lures sexually frustrated housewife Maya (Lisa Christian) into the bosom of a Satanic cult who believe that a union between her and their malevolent leader, Dr. Muldavo (John Francis), is the key…
Love Slaves of the Amazons (1957)
The premise of a lost city of Amazon women who keep only one captured male alive as their “walking sperm bank” had some potential for interest, but not even the considerable manly charms of actor Don Taylor can save this…
Motorpsycho! (1965)
By the standards of Russ Meyer ‘Motorpsycho’ is pretty conventional B-movie thriller. With enough big boobs of course. The film explores same themes of sex and violence as Meyer’s seminal ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’. In this case, the terrorizing violent…
Terror Is a Man (1959)
Fitzgerald is the only survivor of a shipwreck and he finds himself washed up on an luscious Pacific island, which is inhabited by a close-minded doctor, his unsatisfied wife and edgy assistant. That night they found Fitzgerald, the doctor’s experimental…
Devil Times Five (1974)
This is a good little quirky horror-thriller set in a snow-bound area. A family gather in a house for a winter break, while at the same time a bus carrying some kids crashes off the road. Five of the children…
Woman They Almost Lynched (1953)
WOMAN THEY ALMOST LYNCHED (1953) opens with a bang and never lets up for its entire running time. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a Republic western as good as this one, packed with incident, filled with a great cast…
The Uncanny (1977)
In 1977, in Montreal, the scared writer Wilbur Gray (Peter Cushing) visits his publisher Frank Richards (Ray Milland) to disclose his new book about the evilness of cats. Wilbur tells that the felines are supernatural creatures, and that there is…
Fast Company (1979)
As other reviewers have said, this is not Cronenberg’s best movie, but you need to understand even though it came out in 1979, it was shot way before that, and was one of his first movies of this commercial nature,…
The Brood (1979)
David Cronenberg’s “The Brood” is both frightening and shocking. A tale of psychological horror guaranteed to make even the most jaded horror fan recoil in disbelief. The plot in a nutshell – In the care of an eccentric therapist (Oliver…
Cannonball! (1976)
annonball’ is one of the least remembered of the short-lived but successful 1970s car race/car crash genre begun by ‘The Gumball Rally’. What really makes this one stand out is that it was directed by the late Paul Bartel (in…
The One Armed Executioner (1981)
Ramon Ortega (Guerrero) is an Interpol agent living in the Philippines. His professional and personal relationships have never been better, including his marriage to his hot blonde American wife Ann (Kay) – until one day tragedy strikes. A gang of…
Truth Within Movies, The Truth Within Us
I look back on moments in my life and realize that there are instances which stand out. Five O’clock in the afternoon during a hot summer day, as the heat begins to loosen its grip, the street where I lived…
Equalizer 2000 (1987)
B movie perennial Richard Norton (“Force: Five”) stars as a hero named Slade in this little epic, just one of many grungy post-apocalypse features to pattern itself after “Mad Max” and “The Road Warrior”. Slade is out to get revenge…
The War of the Gargantuas (1966)
In case you’ve been asleep for a while, this is the sequel to Frankenstein Conquers the World, in which the Frankenstein monster has grown into two giant creatures. You see, it was established in the first film that the monster,…
Youngblood (1978)
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs was the box office draw, but the focus of Youngblood is actually the title character, played with reasonable conviction by What’s Happening! semi-regular Bryan O’Dell. He’s a not so street smart kid who wants to run with the…