Archive for June, 2010

  • This is a well aged slice of 1960s Italian sci-fi cheese from Mario Bava (Hercules In The Haunted World, Baron Blood) that tells the horrifying tale of some astronauts who...1June 27, 2010

    Planet of the Vampires (1965)

    This is a well aged slice of 1960s Italian sci-fi cheese from Mario Bava (Hercules In The Haunted World, Baron Blood) that tells the horrifying tale of some astronauts who…

  • You probably remember the tagline from this movie’s poster: When there is no more room in hell, the dead will rise and work in an old abandoned tin mine in...1June 27, 2010

    The Plague of the Zombies (1966)

    You probably remember the tagline from this movie’s poster: When there is no more room in hell, the dead will rise and work in an old abandoned tin mine in…

  • Vincent Price, Roger Corman, and Edgar Allan Poe rebound nicely in their second teaming after the deadly dull House Of Usher that came out the year before with a picture...0June 27, 2010

    Pit and the Pendulum (1961)

    Vincent Price, Roger Corman, and Edgar Allan Poe rebound nicely in their second teaming after the deadly dull House Of Usher that came out the year before with a picture…

  • Ants are our most fearsome and deadly bug and understandably so. With their eight big hairy legs, eight nasty eyes and sometimes being the size of a dinner plate, I...2June 26, 2010

    Phase IV (1974)

    Ants are our most fearsome and deadly bug and understandably so. With their eight big hairy legs, eight nasty eyes and sometimes being the size of a dinner plate, I…

  • As soon as I started watching Picnic, I knew that I was in for another one of these sweaty, desperate epics about how life in a small town is full...0June 20, 2010

    Picnic (1955)

    As soon as I started watching Picnic, I knew that I was in for another one of these sweaty, desperate epics about how life in a small town is full…

  • The problem with these movies that were made in the 1950s about big sea monsters cavorting around in scenic coves is that the actors back then had no compunction about...0June 19, 2010

    The Phantom from 10,000 Leagues (1955)

    The problem with these movies that were made in the 1950s about big sea monsters cavorting around in scenic coves is that the actors back then had no compunction about…

  • When Peyton Place came out, it quickly surpassed The Bible as America’s favorite book. And it was easy to see why. You had your white trash rapes, your repressed blonde...4June 16, 2010

    Return to Peyton Place (1961)

    When Peyton Place came out, it quickly surpassed The Bible as America’s favorite book. And it was easy to see why. You had your white trash rapes, your repressed blonde…

  • Peyton Place is a laughably silly soaper that dates rather badly with its meager attempts to be risqué by frequently referencing how everyone in town constantly thinks about sex.0June 13, 2010

    Peyton Place (1957)

    Peyton Place is a laughably silly soaper that dates rather badly with its meager attempts to be risqué by frequently referencing how everyone in town constantly thinks about sex.

  • Like Jane and the Lost City, this is another bottom of the barrel Indiana Jones rip-off based on a comic-strip that features a heroine that gets into all kinds of...0June 9, 2010

    Gwendoline (1984)

    Like Jane and the Lost City, this is another bottom of the barrel Indiana Jones rip-off based on a comic-strip that features a heroine that gets into all kinds of…

  • The Perfect Weapon? The Perfect Speakman is more like it! This first film in the Jeff Speakman mythos (Street Knight is next) details his secret origin as Kenpo bad ass...1June 6, 2010

    The Perfect Weapon (1991)

    The Perfect Weapon? The Perfect Speakman is more like it! This first film in the Jeff Speakman mythos (Street Knight is next) details his secret origin as Kenpo bad ass…