Jack Hill is BACK in a BIG way! For anyone who “hates” on exploitation film auteur Jack Hill’s The Swinging Cheerleaders for its objectification of women – namely cheerleaders – there’s a need for a brief lesson in film and cultural history. Made during the 1970s, Hill’s movie was a very ...
Stop Motion animation addicts rejoice! Monster from Green Hell has been unleashed and, for those few seconds of stop motion glory, it’s worth it! ...
An American Werewolf in London begins with Blue Moon howling across the speakers while pastoral settings flicker by. It isn’t until we get to “Written and Directed by John Landis” before we see any signs of life and it is a truck full of sheep, with two young American backpackers, David (David ...
Exploitation flicks don’t get any nastier than this! You've been warned. If there is any thread of humanity left within you, you'll just stop reading now and go about your day. Nothing to see here. Still here? Goooooood. Then you already know just how absolutely AWESOME this film is and, yeah, there's plenty to see. I don't know ...
It lives in the sewers of Chicago. It’s 36 feet long and weighs over 2000 pounds. This gargantuan is also very, very hungry. Its name is Ramon and, after being flushed down the toilet by an angry Dad, is now about to break out from beneath the city! And Chicago will never be the same ...
This is what happens when an abusive drunk tries to drive the last remaining link to his family’s inheritance absolutely mad in order to cash it in all for himself. Moody, full of fine performances, and with plenty of twists along the way, Paranoiac is a black-and-white gem of atmospheric terror ...
Now, this right here is the KA-RAZY chop Saki kung-fu that I miss about the action flicks from the 1980s! Written, directed and starring Taiwanese martial arts legend John Liu (The Secret Rivals, Invincible Armor) , New York Ninja is truly a one-of-a-kind martial arts film as a mild-mannered sound ...
Primal terror has never looked this good before! Writer/Director Joe Dante (Gremlins) humorously takes on America’s culture of violence with 1981’s The Howling. Manically led by a charging performance from Patrick Macnee (BBC’s The Avengers), The Howling and Dante – alongside Jon ...
Are you ready to take a chance again?! Written and directed by Colin Higgins (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, 9 to 5) and featuring the debut of Chevy Chase in a feature film (when he left SNL in ‘76), Foul Play - while originally dismissed by a lot of print critics at the time of its release ...
“You made two mistakes. One was getting up and the other was making fun of Shirley Temple.” Directed by David Berlatsky and starring Gary Conway as a decorated World War II veteran who returns home to try to save his farm from being taken over by the bank, The Farmer, a ...