Exploitation filmmaking rarely gets ANY trashier than with 1980’s Don’t Answer the Phone . Shot in and around Los Angeles, it is definitely one of the scuzziest flicks produced during the beginning of...

From the brassy swing of the Perez Prado mambo to the hot pink splash of the movie’s title against the front of an Oldsmobile, the opening to director Bob Balaban’s Parents suggests this horror film i...

Japanese film director and screenwriter Kinji Fukasaku ( Battle Royale ) has certainly left his mark on filmmaking. Notable for his extensive use of shaky camera techniques in the 1970s, his influence...

King Tut, how’d you get so funky? Comedian Steve Martin certainly knew the reasons why. Famed B-movie producer Roger Corman thought he knew why and offered this slow-moving excavation of the 18th dyna...

Dun Dun Duuuuun! Even the island of Maui is not immune Roger Corman’s monster-making machine. Up from the Depths is a salvage film. Rescued from the Philippines by legendary B-movie producer Roger Cor...

I didn’t really want to cover this release; I didn’t really want to sit through the hyper-realized gobbledygook that has plagued this series for the last three entries. Hell, it isn’t very hard to sug...

Alienation, thy name is David Bowie. The Man Who Fell to Earth is one of those movies so incredibly odd that it exists in a sacred sphere that is outside of time itself. It has, in fact, improved with...

Only the weirdest of the weird gravitate toward the slasher comedy. Every weirder are those who fall in line with the goofy sequels when the satire has all but dried up. Scream Factory, knowing that i...

Keep that foot on the gas. Apparently, Vin Diesel has enough machismo left in the tank to take lead position in yet another revved-up and frenetic franchise. Xander Cage, extreme sports hero and somet...

Roger Corman’s Death Race 2050 is the film America needs right now. Loaded with comments about where we are headed as a nation, the b-movie – a new release from New Horizons and Universal Pictures Hom...

The odds of being remembered were never in Band of the Hand ’s favor. Most people only recall the explicit violence and the pop-minded title song that Dylan wrote and performed with The Heartbreakers....

Shocking. Poignant. Tear inducing. Whatever word I could use to describe this 1981 exploitation documentary that STILL resonates with its intense look at the far-reaching impact of homicide in America...

Director Arthur Penn’s Dead of Winter is pretty much forgotten today, which makes its appearance on blu-ray – thanks to the efforts of Scream Factory – a real find for fans of old school chills and th...

And THIS is why mothers should never breast feed their freaky-looking children recently turned zombie. Directed by Strip Nude for you Killer ’s Andrea Bianchi, Burial Ground is an Italian grindhouse r...

The Bye Bye Man is a new horror film with a new monster that you will want to applaud more than you actually do. Maybe it’s because of that stupid title. More than likely, though, is the fact that the...