Archive for June, 2008

  • Stefano has taken a job finishing a fresco at a church on an isolated island somewhere in Italy. I had high hopes for this film by Pupi Avati when Stefano...

    The House With The Windows That Laughed (1976)

    Stefano has taken a job finishing a fresco at a church on an isolated island somewhere in Italy. I had high hopes for this film by Pupi Avati when Stefano…

  • Director Joe D’Amato was famous more for the quantity of movies he made over the quality. His voluminous credits include such sophisticated fare as Beyond The Darkness, Erotic Nights Of...

    Death Smiled At Murder (1972)

    Director Joe D’Amato was famous more for the quantity of movies he made over the quality. His voluminous credits include such sophisticated fare as Beyond The Darkness, Erotic Nights Of…

  • I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stopped on the street by total strangers and told “Deadly Outbreak is just Die Hard in a chemical plant.” I suppose...

    Deadly Outbreak (1996)

    I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been stopped on the street by total strangers and told “Deadly Outbreak is just Die Hard in a chemical plant.” I suppose…

  • If you’ve ever sat through Son of Godzilla or Godzilla: Final Wars and wished that all the Godzilla garbage was excised so that the focus could be on Kamacuras, The...

    The Deadly Mantis (1957)

    If you’ve ever sat through Son of Godzilla or Godzilla: Final Wars and wished that all the Godzilla garbage was excised so that the focus could be on Kamacuras, The…

  • Six people are on a camping trip on a deserted island. Deserted except for the chainsaw wielding maniac, his equally psycho wife, their retarded son, and three or four condom...

    The Deadly Camp (1999)

    Six people are on a camping trip on a deserted island. Deserted except for the chainsaw wielding maniac, his equally psycho wife, their retarded son, and three or four condom…

  • As is usually the case in $18,000 movies, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are infinitely more interesting than the half-finished product someone barfed up on screen. The liner notes by film historian...

    The Astounding She-Monster (1958)

    As is usually the case in $18,000 movies, the behind-the-scenes shenanigans are infinitely more interesting than the half-finished product someone barfed up on screen. The liner notes by film historian…

  • Presumably the French high-priced call girl Mystère is supposed to be a super sexy broad what with her heavily made up face and flawless features. Why else is everyone prepared...

    Mystère (1983)

    Presumably the French high-priced call girl Mystère is supposed to be a super sexy broad what with her heavily made up face and flawless features. Why else is everyone prepared…

  • Humphrey Bogart plays recently returned war vet Rip Murdock. He’s searching for the truth behind the death of Johnny, his best friend from the service. Rip knows that Johnny was...

    Dead Reckoning (1947)

    Humphrey Bogart plays recently returned war vet Rip Murdock. He’s searching for the truth behind the death of Johnny, his best friend from the service. Rip knows that Johnny was…

  • When British novelist John Wyndham wasn’t busy crafting stories about killer plants taking over the world (The Day Of The Triffids), he was busy crafting stories about killer brats taking...

    Village Of The Damned (1960)

    When British novelist John Wyndham wasn’t busy crafting stories about killer plants taking over the world (The Day Of The Triffids), he was busy crafting stories about killer brats taking…

  • Dead & Buried poses a question that is really almost embarrassingly obvious: What if there was this small town where the guy in charge of the funeral home starting mixing...

    Dead & Buried (1981)

    Dead & Buried poses a question that is really almost embarrassingly obvious: What if there was this small town where the guy in charge of the funeral home starting mixing…