Recommendations :: Vengeance They Name is Sasori: Arrow Video's Female...
Despite an escalation of violence and explicit nudity, Japanese cinema, like their American counterparts, was still losing the battle to television and losing badly at the dawn of the 1970s. And while...
View ArticleFavorites :: Behind the Scenes :: Nobody Cry When the Giant Robot Monkey Die:...
As much grief as Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Rambaldi got for the colossal failure of the much ballyhooed giant mechanical gorilla for the 1976 version of King Kong, the execution of those giant...
View ArticleBlogathon Alert :: Whaddaya Call It When You Play Multiple Roles and then...
There's an apocryphal story told by actor Dick Miller about the time Roger Corman hired him as an extra for Apache Woman (1955), where they filmed a scene where he played an Indian fleeing from some...
View ArticleCartoon Memories :: Remember When the World Ended in 1994? Me, too!
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ “The year, 1994. From out of space, comes a runaway planet, hurtling between the Earth and the moon, unleashing cosmic destruction....
View ArticleRecommendations :: Another Highly Digestible Two-Punch Combo from Arrow...
Is it a horror film that thinks it’s a comedy? Or is it a comedy that thinks it’s a horror film? You be the judge as a hen-pecked husband’s already volatile home-life is suddenly made worse when his...
View ArticleThe Lost Art of Ballyhoo :: Amazing Lobby Displays, Publicity Stunts and...
Seminal is such a great word that's thrown around a lot when talking about film but I wonder if people realize that the root of the word comes from semen; ya know -- sperm, seed, source of life and all...
View ArticleHello, I Must Be Going. I Cannot Stay, I Came to Say I Must Be Going. I'm...
It's at-thay ime-tay of-way ear-yay, olks-fay. ime-Tay or-fay e-thay Annual-way eptember-Say abbatical-Say! ere-Whay I-way ake-tay a-way ole-whay onth-may off-way om-fray e-thay orld-way ide-way...
View ArticleThe Dual Roles Blogathon :: Beach Dickerson and the Fine Art of Getting...
If you ask Roger Corman, he’ll tell you, quite adamantly, that he never made a movie called Teenage Caveman (1958). However, he will admit to making a film called Prehistoric World back in 1958, where...
View ArticleBy the Pricking of My Thumbs, Something Wicked this Way Comes...
Hubrisween is coming, Boils and Ghouls. You pick the movie. You watch the movie. You review the movie.26 days. 26 films. 26 reviews. A thru Z. Also, I'm not alone in this madness. Five Merry Fools....
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: A is for Attack of the 50ft Woman (1958)
As harried news reports chime in about the mass sightings of “a large red fireball” circling the globe, the trajectory of this mystery spheroid soon finds it zeroing in on the deserts of southern...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: B is for The Black Cat (1941)
With Hans Salter and Frank Skinner’s orchestrations a’blazin’ we open on a dark and stormy night at the Winslow estate, which, we see, as the camera takes us through the front gate and heads for the...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: C is for Chopping Mall (1986)
Opening with what appears to be a heist at a high-end mall, what this really turns out to be is a video and practical demonstration of Secure-Tronics latest in hi-tech security: the Protector 101...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: D is for Deranged (1974)
Our latest feature doubles down from the get go, opening first with a printed disclaimer, saying what we are about to see is true and only the names and locations have been changed; and second, as a...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: E is for Exists (2014)
In an effort to get some new and wilder footage to bump up their views, extreme sports-stunt YouTube-channelers Brian and Matt (Osborn, Davis) head into the notorious Big Thicket of east Texas, with an...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: F is for Fatal Games (1984)
With an establishing shot and a subtitle we go as our latest film welcomes us to the Falcon Academy of Athletics. What follows is a nickel tour through the grounds, gyms, pool, and track and field...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: G is for The Ghost of Flight 401 (1978)
On Friday, December 29, 1972, Eastern Air Lines Flight 401 departed JFK Airport around 10:20pm, with the Lockheed TriStar destined to land at Miami International Airport two-hours and twenty minutes...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: H is for HELL (2011)
The year is 2016, and due to an outbreak of massive solar flares five years prior, the Earth and its denizens have been essentially cooked alive in the interim as global temperatures have topped out at...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: I is for The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)
Oh, swell, we’re beginning with a sexual assault already in progress with a side-order of multiple homicide as mad-dog killer Manuel Cass (Cole) threatens some poor girl with a meat cleaver while...
View ArticleHubrisween 2016 :: J is for Joy Ride (2001)
Having known each other since they were kids, Lewis Thomas (Walker) has held a secret crush on his oldest friend Venna Wilcox for over a decade. Unable to express his true feelings for her properly,...
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