Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Bert I. Gordon (BIG) stands out as one of the more successful grade-Z auteurs of 1950’s films, having made within a few short years a slew of monster/scifi ultra low budget films, all of which involve fantastical changes in the…
Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
An odd little cinematic gift from England — but don’t take it too seriously. The story is set in an isolated English inn where a flying saucer lands and surrounds the area in an invisible force field. From the spacecraft…
Prehistoric Women (1967)
In 1966, Hammer studios gave the world its cave-girl classic One Million Years B.C., which featured a bevy of fur bikini-clad beauties, including the pneumatic Raquel Welch and the lissom Martine Beswick. The next year, obviously unwilling to consign a…
The Spotlight Shines on Tracey Birdsall
Written By: Keith Makenas “As a director of over a quarter of a century and having worked with thousands of actors, I have never encountered anyone so facilitating and driven as Tracey,” tells Director, Producer, and Writer Neil Johnson. Ever…
A Lust to Kill (1958)
With very little in the way of a storyline, and with sets as crude as a high school play, “A Lust To Kill” is a textbook definition of the 1950s “B” western flick. This movie’s greatest asset, arguably, is that…
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
Your usual troubled youth of the 1950’s movie that has the distinction of being filmed at the famous Griffin Park Observatory just two months-in January 1955- before the granddaddy of all 1950’s troubled youth movies was filmed there “Rebel Without…
Billy Jack (1971)
Disillusioned half-Indian Green Beret Vietnam veteran Billy Jack comes back home to Arizona and what does he find? Several people illegally hunting on Indian land. And to make matters worse, one of them is the local sheriff, so the law…
Miami Connection (1987)
Jeff (William Eagle) and Yashito (Si Y Jo) are cocaine runners who are close to dominating the world with their drug trade. There’s only one thing standing in their way, but it’s of monumentally awesome proportions: a rock band called…
Escape from L.A. (1996)
If movies were graded solely on their concept, Escape from L.A. would be an absolutely fantastic movie. The city of Los Angeles has finally been hit with “the big one” and fallen away from California. The anarchy escalating from the…
Invasion of The Star Creatures (1962)
This was one of those films that got a ton of play on the airwaves in the early 1970’s, usually on the “4am Movie” or one time, on the 7:30 PM “Channel 6 Big Movie” and still another on Creature…
King Kong Escapes (1967)
Surprisingly, King Kong’s second Japanese outing, 1967’s King Kong Escapes is a much more enjoyable affair. A co-production with Rankin-Bass to cash in on the success of their animated King Kong TV series, it plays at times like a feature-length…
Beast Of Blood (1970)
This the direct sequel to Mad Doctor of Blood Island. Its the fourth (or third if you don’t count the unrelated Terror is a Man) in the Blood Island saga. Literally picking up hours after the first film, the film…
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)
With NASA sending a space probe to Mars to check out if there’s any life on the Red planet it, or the robot in it, conks out after some 30 minutes, due to a surge of unexpected electricity through it’s…
City of the Living Dead (1980)
A priest commits suicide in order to open a gateway to hell. This leads to a series of grim events, including several supernatural zombies. City of the Living Dead is the second of Italian director Lucio Fulci’s four celebrated zombie…
The Cauldron Of Death (1970)
CAULDRON OF BLOOD is, with all it’s admitted faults, in reality a very important minor entry in the early stages of the Euro Horror boom years of 1967 to 1975 or so. The film’s main draw is Boris Karloff, brought…
Premonition (1972)
A sidestepped horror film mostly noted as an early effort from Alan Rudolph, PREMONITION is a hazy, mystical horror outing which involves a hippie music group taking residence in the pastoral outlands of the San Francisco Bay Area. Various interpersonal…
John Lechago’s KILLJOY’S PSYCHO CIRCUS – Now Available
OCTOBER COAST Press Release Full Moon Entertainment is bringing KILLJOY’S PSYCHO CIRCUS to DVD and Digital on December 1! The big top of terror will be available online at Full Moon’s Amazon page, along with their entire catalogue of new…
House of Wax (1953)
In 1900, in New York, Prof. Henry Jarrod (Vincent Price) is an artist, sculpting masterpieces in wax and exposing them in a small and non-profitable museum. When his partner Matthew Burke (Roy Roberts) proposes a criminal fire to receive the…
Scream of Fear (1961)
As my title suggests, “Scream of Fear” (UK title) is barely known and this is hardly surprising since the film is very rarely shown in the UK and last time was put on at half past three in the morning…
House of Frankenstein (1944)
“House of Frankenstein” is salvaged by a great cast of seasoned performers who make this movie better than it should be, given it’s split “B” movie story. In a move to re-generate interest in its fading horror series, Universal gives…