Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Still playing on double-bills with The Rocky Horror Picture Show in England, Brian DePalma’s foray into the psychodelic world of the musical excesses that was the 70’s becomes more than just another rock musical. With a fusion of Faust, Dorian…
The Hot Box (1972)
In the jungles of South America. Lynn, Bunny, Ellie and Sue are American nurses working at a hospital clinic in the Latin-American republic of San Rosario. They are kidnapped by some bandits, who were hired by Flavio the leader of…
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…
Eyeball (1975)
Umberto Lenzi doubtlessly is one of the greatest and most multi-talented Italian Cult directors, who has contributed gems to pretty much any genre and sub-genre Italian genre-cinema has brought forth, be it rough Poliziotteschi like “Milano Oida… La Polizia Non…
Road House (1948)
Jean Negulesco’s Road House must have inspired that sentence (or rather fragment). With her voice shredded by Scotch and Luckies, Ida Lupino is the thrush, the canary, whose smoldering cigarettes leave a bar-code of burns scarring the smart paint of…
Back from the Dead (1957)
“Back from the Dead” (1957) has Marsha Hunt visiting her pregnant sister, Peggie Castle, who is married to Arthur Franz. He lost his first wife “Felicia” a year ago when she fell from a cliff. A cult of Satanists is…
Panic in the Streets (1950)
When a stiff turns up with pneumonic plague (a variant of bubonic plague), U.S. Public Health Service official Dr. Clinton Reed (Richard Widmark) immediately quarantines everyone whom he knows was near the body. Unfortunately, the stiff got that way by…
A Bright Shining Light
Sometimes in the darkness of a winter’s night a light can emerge which illuminates a path for a weary traveler. In my posts as of late I have bemoaning the off course direction the motion picture exhibition industry has been…
Blonde Sinner (1956)
True “Blonde bombshells” of a starring nature come along only once or twice in a decade, and the number from, say, 1930 to 1960 is not all that many: Jean Harlow, Lana Turner, Marilyn Monroe, Diana Dors, Jayne Mansfield, Kim…
Gigantis The Fire Monster (1955)
Another of Godzilla’s species is discovered on an island, along with a spiky creature called Angilusaurus (or Angilus for short). Before long the two monsters are wrecking havoc. Though this film was rushed out, it has the advantages of being…
My Baby Is Black! (1961)
The subject of race and sexual relationships is even a hot button topic in our world today, so it was probably almost taboo to broach the subject in the 1960’s. Yet, that is what this little French films tries to…
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Pickup On South Street is one of the most brilliant movies ever made. An example of the directing: When Candy (Jean Peters) starts going through her purse and notices her wallet is missing, an alarm goes off in the background…
The Headless Ghost (1959)
The Headless Ghost is set in London in England where the centuries old Ambrose Castle is a popular tourist attraction, three students Bill (Richard Lyon), Ingrid (Liliane Sottane) & Ronnie (David Rose) are taking a guided tour when talk of…
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
If this story were filmed today, the treatment would be much more stark and realistic. But for a film in the mid-50s, it provided quite a punch in conveying the agony of growing up with a loving but very demanding…
HOLY TERROR Coming this April
New Exorcist Movie ‘Holy Terror’ Coming this April Press Release – updated: Jan 30, 2017 Los Angeles, CA, January 30, 2017 (Newswire.com) – The riveting first official teaser trailer for the new supernatural horror film HOLY TERROR was just released (see…
Prehistoric Women (1967)
“Prehistoric Women” is the most endearing and lovable of Hammer Films’ Cave Girls In Trouble films. I fell in love with it instantly during a late night creature feature screening at the age of 14 or so and pursued it…
The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
Leone served his apprenticeship in film by assisting various Italian directors as well as Walsh, Wyler and Melvyn Le Roy… By the late ’50s he was writing scripts for gladiatorial epics, the genre in which he first gained directing experience,…
The Naked Witch (1961)
This 59 minute movie starts off as a documentary on witchcraft and it’s slightly interesting for what it is. Then, around the ten minute mark we switch gears to an actual “movie” about a student who is doing research on…
Strait-Jacket (1964)
The movie opens with shocking betrayal. Lucy Harbin (Joan Crawford) returns from a journey only to find her husband (Lee Majors) in bed with another woman. She spins into a murderous rampage. With an axe, she evens the score by…
Dark Intruder (1965)
Long before he became an immortal slapstick icon with his role as Frank Drebin in “The Naked Gun” (and became typecast as such until his death), Leslie Nielsen actually was a pretty versatile actor and appeared in numerous cult movies….