SYNOPSIS: The Man of Steel crusades for nuclear disarmament and meets Lex Luthor’s latest creation, Nuclear Man. REVIEW: Today’s journey into bad movie land is the much-maligned Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, though if the director had his way, it would have had the subtitle The Quest for a Budget by the time they wrapped. The film centers on …
Read More »Film Review: Santa Clause Conquers the Martians (1964)
SYNOPSIS: The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. REVIEW: Well it’s that time of year for about a million holiday movies to be shown ad nauseum. For some of us, the nonstop bombardment of Christmas themed shows and movies tend to get tiresome to the point that you start wanting to …
Read More »Film Review: Killdozer (1974)
SYNOPSIS: A small construction crew on an island is terrorized when some strange spirit-like being takes over a large bulldozer, and goes on a killing rampage. REVIEW: If memory serves me correctly, the 1970s brought us many nature runs amok movies. Jaws, Piranha, Gator, and Grizzly are all examples of movies that were trying to show us that the nature …
Read More »Film Review: Ice Pirates (1984)
SYNOPSIS: In the far future water is the most valuable substance. Two space pirates are captured, sold to a princess, and recruited to help her find her father who disappeared when he found information dangerous to the rulers. A real Space Opera with sword fights, explosions, fighting robots, monsters, bar fights and time warps. REVIEW: I first saw Ice Pirates …
Read More »Film Review: Double Down (2005)
SYNOPSIS: An edgy action thriller set in Las Vegas during a terrorist attack. A brilliant computer loner takes control of the city and the attack as he fights with his fits of overwhelming depression and obsessions with love and death. REVIEW: Today’s journey into the B grade cinema jungle is brought to us by one Neil Breen. A Las …
Read More »Film Review: Unnatural (2016)
SYNOPSIS: Global climate change prompts a scientific corporation to genetically modify Alaskan polar bears with horrific and deadly results. REVIEW: Well folks, today’s movie is another entry in the age old story of scientists meets animal, scientist genetically alters animal, then animal eats scientist and goes on a rampage. Of course, the scientists in movies are always doing something to …
Read More »Film Review: Sorceress (1982)
SYNOPSIS: Sword and sorcery story of the cosmic struggle between white magic and black magic. REVIEW: When I saw the name Sorceress on the list of movies I had to review, I was excited at first until I saw that it was the 1982 movie and not the one from the 1990s. While the latter one is not considered a …
Read More »Film Review: The Pumaman (1980)
SYNOPSIS: Low-budget film about a young man given a mystical medallion by an Aztec shaman, in order to become a puma-empowered champion like his father before him. In trying to initially locate the young man, the shaman has the nasty habit of pushing candidates out of windows to test them (“Nope, not him.”) REVIEW: Pumaman was an Italian superhero flick …
Read More »Film Review: Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
SYNOPSIS: Aliens land in the town of “Speelburgh” searching for the source of rock & roll. They find trouble with Dee Dee, Frankie and the pack. REVIEW: Holy crap. That was the only response I could think of after the ending credits to Voyage of the Rock Aliens played. Just a few weeks ago, if you tried to describe this …
Read More »Film Review: Deathstalker II (1987)
SYNOPSIS: Deathstalker helps Reena the Seer out of a few jams, and she solicits his help for a bigger task. She reveals that she is actually Princess Evie, but the evil sorcerer had her abducted and cloned in order to seize control of the kingdom. Together they travel to the evil sorcerer’s stronghold to restore the princess to her rightful …
Read More »Film Review: Lady Terminator (1989)
SYNOPSIS: The spirit of an ancient evil queen posesses the body of a young anthropological student, who then goes on a murderous rampage. REVIEW: I just realized that I owe kind of an apology to some of the other movies I’ve reviewed, like Star Crash and Message from Space. I had called those movies ripoffs, and they were, but they …
Read More »Film Review: Run Like Hell (1995)
SYNOPSIS: In the year of 2008, war and sickness have overtaken the planet. The deranged government declares single women a threat to the human race. Singles women are imprisoned. The corrupt warden is determined to keep the prisoners locked up. REVIEW: Watching the 1995 movie Run Like Hell is not something that should be taken lightly. In fact, it …
Read More »Film Review: Message from Space (1978)
SYNOPSIS: In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played by a comic actor in drag) rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging …
Read More »Film Review: Tell Me How I Die (2016)
SYNOPSIS: When a group of college students take part in a clinical drug trial, an unexpected side effect of the experimental medicine gives them terrifying visions of their own deaths…which begin to come true. As they scramble to escape their fate, they discover that the killer is among them and shares their ability to see the future – only he …
Read More »Film Review: Granny of the Dead (2017)
SYNOPSIS: Regular guy Ed (Marcus Carroll) awakes one morning to find that his Grandmother has become one of the living dead. While trapped in his home Ed tries to survive the day, keep his house zombie free, stay alive and save the day. REVIEW: Holy crap. Seriously, that’s what I have to say about this movie. Just, holy crap. I …
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