In Memoriam :: Have Sword Will Travel: Rutger Hauer Can't See a Thing and...
Best friends since bootcamp, American soldiers Nick Parker and Frank Deveraux survived their tour of duty in Vietnam and were only one day away from being mustered out when the firebase they were...
View ArticleZombie Stomping Along with The Del-Aires and Those Kooky Pigeon-Toed,...
On the open road we begin, where a souped-up, sax-heavy tune blares over the radio of a young couple driving to the beach, who soon find themselves overrun and surrounded by the local motorcycle club....
View ArticleLet Them Die :: Going to the Movies Sure Ain't What It Used to Be...
PROLOGUE: Going to the movies used to be fun, and was one of the ever-dwindling few things I actually enjoy in these terrible times. And so, WARNING: Full blow rant time. No pictures, just bile, and a...
View ArticleLunar Crater: 9 Miles Until the Annual September Sabbatical.
Wait. Where in the hell did August go?! Well, wherever it went, she gone, and that means September is nigh and my biological clock confirms it's time for our annual Sabbatical. Time to step away from...
View ArticleIt's October, And The End is Nigh! Brace Yourselves, Boils and Ghouls! It's...
 What is Hubrisween?  You pick the movie. You watch the movie. You review the movie.  26 days. 26 films. 26 reviews.  A thru Z. (Sort of. Had to cheat a bit this year.)  So please join Yours Truly...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: A is for The Astounding She-Monster
Not gonna lie, but, the movie that follows doesn’t really merit or ever earn the gloomy tone of our pissy narrator as he pithily recounts the occurrence of the Big Bang and the universe that sprung...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: B is for The Black Hole (1979)
In the year 2130, at the end of an extended deep space mission to find any signs of life or other habitable planets, the USS Palomino and its crew of five are now on their way back to Earth with not...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: C is for The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
Set in 18th century Spain, our lycanthropic tale of blood and sex begins when a beggar wanders into the town of Santa Vera. Confused as to why the streets are deserted and the church bells are ringing...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: D is for Dark Was the Night (2014)
Somewhere deep in the forests of Maine, a team of loggers has apparently gone missing when they don’t show up at a designated rendezvous point for a mandatory evacuation. Apparently, this new...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: E is for The Entity (1982)
As the sun goes down and the shadows grow long creeping fingers over the city of Los Angeles, California, we meet Carla Moran as she finishes up a menial secretarial shift and then rushes to her night...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: F is for Flesh Gordon (1974)
After an opening crawl begins by personally thanking Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster, C. C. Beck and Bill Parker, Philip Francis Nowlan, and Alex Raymond for creating the superheroes Superman, Captain...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: G is for The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
As an abused theremin is pushed to the limit and gets its eerie on something fierce, a taciturn narrator opines about what undiscovered mysteries are lurking in the vast, nigh impenetrable areas where...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: H is for Horror Express (1972)
Framed as a letter of explanation from Professor Alexander Saxton to the British Royal Geological Society circa 1906 on what exactly happened in the aftermath of his fossil-hunting expedition into...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: I is for I Eat Your Skin (1964/1971)
Apparently, while a certain infamous secret agent was screwing around with his latest gold-themed nemesis, disrupting a poolside high-stakes (and totally rigged) game of gin rummy at the Fontainebleau...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: J is for Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot in Voyage into...
From the unplumbed depths of outer-space, a tear-shaped UFO rockets toward the Earth and then makes a beeline for Japan. And as that island country’s defense forces mobilize just in case these...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: K is for Killer Workout (1987)
We open en media prologue as a mystery woman returns home, checks the messages on her answering machine (-- stone-age voicemail to those of you under 20), and becomes very excited when her agent chimes...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: L is for The Late, Great Planet Earth (1979)
We open in the familiar terrain of Vasquez Rocks, where the Batley Townswomens' Guild is apparently doing a re-enactment of a scene from The Life of Brian (1979) ... No. Wait. That’s not right. Well,...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: M is for Midnight Ride (1990)
At a car rental counter in Montevideo, California, a pleasant young man finishes up the paperwork needed on the rental agreement with a harried clerk. Seems he’s in a hurry to visit an old friend in...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: N is for The Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
Five months ago, six construction workers escalated things too far while screwing around on a break, resulting in the brutal rape of a delivery woman at a building site somewhere in east Texas. But the...
View ArticleHubrisween 2019 :: O is for The Other Side of Madness (1971)
In the late summer of 1969, our movie says in the opening scroll, an unknown band of hippie-styled characters committed the most bizarre crimes in history. And the photoplay this movie presented was a...
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