The Terrornauts (1967)
The Terrornauts which looks like it was shot on a budget for a real and not Walt Disney high school musical, is one of the quirkiest science fiction films ever made. That’s in fact part of its charm, a Star…
Ms .45 (1981)
Thana (not Hannah as one might mistake to hear) hasn’t had a good lot in life. She doesn’t have really any family or friends, she works for pittance as a clothing workshop, and can’t speak as a mute. She’s also…
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Jack Hill’s ‘Switchblade Sisters’ is a wild ride that will have you hooked from the get go! It’s everything I hoped Ted V. Mikels disappointing ‘The Doll Squad’ was going to be – a trashy, campy slice of 1970s exploitation…
The Pom Pom Girls (1976)
THE POM POM GIRLS was a huge sleeper hit in it’s day and it’s easy to see why. Thousands of stoned kids across the land with beer in hand at the drive-in, watching this documentary-like fun fest on being a…
Catastrophe (1977)
CATASTROPHE is one of those clip compilation documentaries that gather together shocking footage, add in a famous narrator, and let rip. The previous one I saw was DAYS OF FURY, starring Vincent Price, and CATASTROPHE is much the same. This…
Code Name: Jaguar (1965)
“Code Name: Jaguar” (1965) is a good euro-spy picture, smoothly done, in good color and widescreen, well-paced, amusing at times, well-acted, and with some nice set pieces and production values. The dialog in this film is sharp and witty, adding…
Black Shampoo (1976)
“Black Shampoo” is one of the lousiest blacksploitation films I’ve seen, and if you’re familiar with the genre, you know thats saying a lot. In terms of technical quality, this makes “Dolemite” look like “Do the Right Thing”. Fortunately, its…
Picasso Trigger (1988)
Picasso Trigger, the third film in Andy Sidaris’s Malibu Express series, is par for the course in terms of nudity and violence, with the obligatory big breasted babes disrobing at regular intervals to get fruity with the musclebound hunks, and…
Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957)
American-International Pictures found their niche in the film industry by catering to the drive-in markets, where films slanted at teens (and actually starring teenagers playing teens — a radical concept at the time)and exploitation markets proved popular. SAUCERMEN, aimed at…
The Shaolin Exterminator (1977)
Something strange goes on at Dragon Town. It starts with a girl killing a traveler trying to cross a bridge. She uses a nonsense weapon called a needle gun. A few more men are killed and everyone speaks of ghosts….
The Land Unknown (1957)
A helicopter with three Navy officers, led by Jock Mahoney, and the requisite woman reporter aboard, Shawn Smith, gets caught in bad weather over Antarctica and must land through a heavy cloud layer to find they are at the bottom…
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
Good girl Jane (Sue England) gets mixed up with bad girl (Molly McCart) and soon both of them are headed to jail even though Jane is innocent. On the way to jail June’s boyfriend (Tommy Cook) kills the cop and…
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
Considering that this Fiend Without A Face came about in a decade when sci-fi was generally considered grade-Z clap trap, one would assume that I’d not have anything polite to discuss in regards to this film. Well, then again, maybe…
Sabata (1969)
Lee Van Cleef stars in the first of the Sabata films. Here he plays cat and mouse games with the leaders of a town who have attempted to steal an army payroll. Sabata stops their scheme and then attempts to…
The Sidehackers (1969)
SIDEHACKERS (AKA: FIVE THE HARD WAY) was a break from their usual sci-fi/ horror fodder. But it’s no less bizarre. In the late 60s, biker movies were all the rage. Also in the late 60s, and continuing into the late…
Battle Of The Worlds (1961)
Antonio Margheriti’s Italian Spaghetti Space Operas are some of the most interesting science fiction from the 1960s. Starting with SPACE MEN (or ASSIGNMENT: OUTER SPACE) and culminating with the brilliantly mod GAMMA ONE QUADROLIGY, Margheriti helped to shape the ultimate…
Journey to the Seventh Planet (1962)
The movie’s setting is 2001, when according to the opening monologue, “the planet earth is no longer racked by wars and threats of annihilation. Man has learned to live with himself.” Really? A bit optimistic there! Anyway, the United Nations,…
The Louisiana Hussy (1959)
Brothers Pierre (Robert Richards) and Jacques Guillot (Peter Coe) are partners in trading furs and Spanish Moss—“give ya’ll a couple of bushels of moss for a bucket of that stuff Alice B. cooks with”—and Jacques is hacked off at his…
Hell on Wheels (1967)
Here’s a “no-budget” independent production designed to showcase both the singing and racing skills of good ol’ boy country crooner Marty Robbins. He’s obviously a talented singer, and apparently a passable race car driver. But he should never have attempted…
Not Tonight Henry (1960)
One of the early color near-nudie films and was re-shown often by, mostly, drive-in theatre owners in need of a quick cash fix. They would hang out the “Adults Only” sign, thereby ensuring that every high school and junior high…