I’m not going to mince words here. Truck Turner is one seriously badass flick. It is the type of B-movie that gets me so excited for the unlimited possibilities of low budget cinema. It is sooo much b...

He’s one strange dude. Blacula , starring William Marshall (who would go on to become television’s The King of Cartoons on Pee-wee's Playhouse ), and its immediate sequel Scream Blacula Scream (with t...

Opening with a bare-breasted dominatrix whipping a sacrificial virgin, The Crimson Cult AKA Curse of the Crimson Altar has to be one of the strangest British productions to have been distributed by Am...

Robert Wise. The name alone should command respect. He was, after all, the man who edited Citizen Kane and directed (in no particular order) West Side Story , The Sound of Music , The Body Snatcher (t...

They say it’s not the size, it’s how you use it. Ant-Man , with its emphasis on all things microscopic, is proof of the truth in that saying. With its smallest hero, Marvel Studios has done the bigges...

Arnold Schwarzenegger. Zombies. I know what you are thinking and, trust me, I went there as well when I first heard about Maggie . Schwarzenegger, sans shirt, throwing zombies off his hulked out frame...

Italian horror filmmakers have a long and fascinating history of taking a successful Hollywood idea and running with it until at least 10 films, all with different titles, have beaten its singular uni...

The scariest thing about The Gallows isn’t exactly because of what happens in it. It’s the realization (occurring afterwards) that, had a producer truly given two shits about the film and not just the...

Criminally overlooked and often undervalued in the film community, Pit Stop is one hell of a gritty film that effectively carries its viewers to another time in America, back when the angst of the tee...

Arming itself with a new interpretation for the popular saying “crash and burn”, Robot Jox continues to garner new fans with each passing year. This post-apocalyptic science fiction film featuring gig...

Opening with a fantastic voodoo-inspired dance number that effectively out-funks Michael Jackson’s Thriller video by almost a decade, Sugar Hill combines some pretty gnarly bug-eyed zombies with the t...

Long on style but short on plot, the two films that make up Scream Factory’s latest double feature delight only with an impressionistic use of heavy gore. These two seemingly unrelated films were rele...

Allow me to relay my thoughts on the latest version of the Terminator model as they originally came to me for your reading benefit: 1. No. 2. No. 3. No. 4. No. 5. NO! That’s right, five solid votes in...

Finally, the long wait is over. Angela Baker is coming home … again. There are very few writers who truly understand how comedy can support horror and vice versa in the filmmaking community. Fritz Gor...

By land AND by sea; that’s the territory of Peter Benchley’s Creature , a miniseries presented on blu-ray in two parts, which was originally broadcast in 1998 on The Hallmark Channel. Did you miss it?...