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The Celluloid Zeroes Present: It's All True! (Except for the Bullshit.) ::...
Way, way back in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety-Two, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue, history shows he steered the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria into what would come to be known as the Sargasso...
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The Cult Movie Project #16 (of 200): These Are the Armies of the Night. They...
Two wildly disparate tales, one an ancient Greek poem, the other a hit Broadway musical, though separated by thousands of years managed to intertwine themselves to form the basis of Walter Hill's ode...
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Favorites :: Pin-Ups :: Attack of the B-Girls!
Allison Hayesx Barbara Rush  Beverly Garland Carol Ohmart Faith Domergue Helena Carter Mara CordayMargaret Sheridan
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Cult Movie Project #17 (of 200) :: Brighton Calling: The Rockin' Hot-Mod...
A mash-up of Quadrophonic and Schizophrenia, although a righteous title, I do wonder if a more proper name for Quadrophenia (1979) might be Dichotomy as the film focuses on the sound and the insanity...
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On the Big Screen :: Despite What You've Probably Heard, There's No Ultimate...
You know, Josh Trank and 20th Century Fox might've really had something with Fantastic Four (2015). As is, one can easily sense and see the two distinct and clashing sensibilities behind it, which...
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Vintage Tuneage :: One Hit Wonders :: The Way I Love It is Frightening. Zap!...
Video courtesy of nlmrgreenday.Every video I find for this song somehow winds up being more amazing than the last. This one, however, will be hard to top.I've kinda always felt this tune was the Disco...
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Cult Movie Project #11 (of 200) :: Binging on the Nectar of Gods and Monsters...
Sherman? Set The Way-Back Machine for the summer of 1978. The Rivoli Theater. (Or maybe it was The Strand? It doesn't really matter...) Somewhere, as you enter that darkened theater is a seven year...
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Cult Movie Project #18 (of 200) :: Rising Up, and Pushing Everything Up with...
On December 3, 1947, after ten screenwriters and directors were cited for contempt of Congress, all taking the Fifth and refusing to answer questions for the House of Representatives’ Committee on...
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Movie Poster Spotlight :: Look! Up in the Sky! Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane?...
It's Superman vs. the Spider Lady in this rip-snorting serial from Columbia Pictures courtesy of Sam Katzman, Spencer Bennet and Thomas Carr. And despite the somewhat crude animation to make the Man of...
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YouTube Finds :: Viewer Seeking Grief Counselling After Blindly Walking into...
I've been struggling the past few days over exactly whose idea it was to watch Grave of the Fireflies (1988) before going to bed late Friday night heading into early Saturday morning. The evening had...
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Cult Movie Project #19 (of 200) :: Sexing Up the War on Higher Education in...
If someone drew a triangle using the bubble-gum pop of Gidget (1959) and the knee-deep cheese of the Frankie and Annette Beach Party movies (1963-1966) as the base angles, and the steamy melodrama of A...
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Exiting, Stage Left.
Holy crap, but it's that time of year again folks. E'yup, the Annual September Sabbatical is upon us, which means I will back away from the keyboard and let my typing knuckles scab over for a whole...
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The Celluloid Zeroes Present: Adult Onset Lycanthropy :: Spinning a Web of...
We open in a saloon where private detective Mark Higbie enjoys last call with a new found friend. They’re interrupted when a woman enters and asks for assistance with a car that refuses to start. Much...
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Announcements :: We're Back! And Stay Tuned. It's Gonna Be Big. Huge!...
The sabbatical's over, Boils and Ghouls, and Hubrisween is almost here.Five Blogs. Five Bloggers. 26 days. 26 films. 26 reviews.A thru Z.Launching October 6 and crashing on Hallowe'en 2015.Â
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Hubrisween 2015 :: A is for Anthropophagus (1980)
We open quite gruesomely on a remote Greek island, where two tourists meet their untimely end on the beach; she is attacked from below the water and shredded in an occluding plume of blood, while he...
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Hubrisween 2015 :: B is for The Beach Girls and the Monster (1965)
We open with guitars reverbin’, bikini-babes a'shimmyin’, beachniks surfin’, and a gloriously wonky fish-monster a'lurkin’ in the dunes, who manages to pick off a stray beach bunny and then...
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Hubrisween 2015 :: C is for The Crazies (1973)
After making the seminal horror classic Night of the Living Dead (1968), George Romero tried his hand at other genres but it wasn’t long before he returned to his comfort zone: biting (heh) social...
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Hubrisween 2015 :: D is for The Devil's Triangle (1974)
Since its heyday in the crypto-addled 1970s, many myths about the dreaded "Bermuda Triangle" have long since been debunked, with plenty of plausible and practical explanations for the large number of...
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Hubrisween 2015 :: E is for Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
On a lonely country road, a grizzled truck driver takes his eyes off the pavement just long enough to check a small package on the seat next to him, but when he looks back he barely has time to scream...
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Hubrisween 2015 :: F is for Feeding Frenzy (2010)
At a hardware store in suburban Milwaukee, something sinister is afoot. Seems the owner has a thing for late night fleabag motel rendezvous with prostitutes, whom he then murders and then takes their...
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