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Recommendations :: Arrow Video Showcases the Celluloid Crime of the Century...
On the eve of her 17th birthday, Mari Collingwood and her bestest friend, Phyllis Stone, set off to the big city to attend a rock concert. Attempting to pick up some marijuana on the way, the pair wind...
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A Mystery, Within an Enigma, Wrapped Up In a Delusional Pyschosis :: A...
We open at a small outdoor concert venue somewhere in Tokyo, which is all abuzz as an anxious audience awaits the appearance of CHAM!; an all-girl bubblegum J-pop trio that never quite broke through....
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Technical Difficulties, Server Fu, and the Near Total Cluster-@#%* of Joe Bob...
It was a manic rush for time as I scrambled to get things set for Shudder TV’s The Last Drive-In, where Joe Bob Briggs once more returned to the masses for a dusk till dawn till dusk 24-hour plus...
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Love and War and the Other Woman :: A Beer-Gut Reaction to Mervyn Leroy's...
As a troop transport ship returns from the ETO and nears New York Harbor, a clutch of reporters huddle on the docks, waiting to interview these returning veterans of World War II, which has just...
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IT Came From Debuke :: Lost and Found: The True Hollywood Story of Silver...
A highly amusing look at a faux mini-movie mogul in the Al Adamson vein, Lost and Found: The True Hollywood Story of Silver Screen Cinema Pictures International (2017) is a mockumentary framed around...
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Tales of the AMC Stadium Seven, and the Afternoon Matinee That Almost Wasn't.
Hurry, hurry, hurry, ladies and gents, boils and ghouls, and movie freaks of all ages, gather around and listen to my latest tale of chaos and calamity concerning the Three Ring Circus that is the AMC...
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The Lovely Lee Grant Blogathon :: Crazy or Not Crazy? That is the Question in...
Our film opens with a man in crisis preamble: He's just quit his job as a corporate attorney; his marriage is currently breaking up on the rocks of ennui and the resulting infidelity (-- the wife is...
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Announcements :: We're Headin' Up, and Movin' Out.
Well, it's that time of year again, Boils and Ghouls, as the Annual September Sabbatical has once more sprung as we leave the Satan's Halitosis of Summer behind and barrel toward the cooler environs of...
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Even a Halloween Movie Marathon Who is Pure in Heart and Says Its Prayers by...
You pick the movie. You watch the movie. You review the movie. 26 days. 26 films. 26 reviews. A thru Z. So please join me and four other foolish souls who also took up this challenge. Launching...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: A is for A Cold Night's Death (1973)
Something has gone terribly wrong at the Tower Mountain Research Station and Summit Lab. For above the raging winter storm on the outside, we can hear the nonsensical ravings of the lone occupant...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: B is for The Boogens (1981)
With one of the cleverest uses of the old spinning newspaper headline gag, our latest feature gets a huge chunk of its backstory out of the way early through a vintage photo montage from the mining...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: C is for The Car (1977)
Way off in the distance of a vast desert landscape we catch a glint of sunlight reflecting off of something metal or glass. Then, a trail of dust becomes visible, kicked up by something moving at great...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: D is for The Deadly Mantis (1957)
We open with a slightly bastardized lesson on Newton’s Third Law of Motion as a camera slowly pans over a global map until it zeroes in on a tiny South Pacific island, which dissolves into footage of a...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: E is for Edge of the Axe (1988)
Our rather large body count kicks off with a bang -- well, make that opens with a splat, a really cool and sinister splat -- several of them, actually, as a nurse steers her car into a automatic car...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: F is for Forced Entry (1975)
Don’t be fooled by the opening prologue for this film, where a text crawl contends the “latest statistics indicate violent crimes committed against women are rising at an alarming rate,” which is...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: G is for The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
With the pedal already to the metal we open on a couple of souped-up jalopies burning rubber and swapping paint as one driver aggressively tries to prod the other into a drag race. Also, one cannot...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: H is for The House on Sorority Row (1983)
Tinted over in an unhealthy shade of blue we flashback to June 19, 1961, where, as a thunderstorm of ominous portent rages, Dorothy Slater goes into premature labor. A Dr. Nelson Beck is called and...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: I is for The Innkeepers (2011)
Welcome to the last weekend of the Yankee Pedlar Inn’s existence. A kitschy mashup of old-school New England charm and brazen interior design that has gone in and out of fashion at least three times in...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: J is for Jonah Hex (2010)
As the American Civil War rages, a group of Confederate cavalry led by a Quentin Turnbull wage a campaign of terror behind the Union lines, creating all kinds of havoc. And like fellow guerilla...
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Hubrisween 2018 :: K is for The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)
After losing another dust-up with his wife over her controlling interest of the marital purse strings, the husband storms out of the house, drives off into the night, and then picks a lucky spot to...
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