Film Reviews

SYNOPSIS: A young man walking through the desert encounters a pendant and oversized lasergun that gives him the power to destroy. REVIEW: Michael Rae’s Laserblast (1978) is one of the most enjoyable and best “worst” movies I’ve ever seen. Long a staple of 16mm syndicated television airings on independent channels it’s a ridiculously delightful slice of Southern California/cheesy science fiction …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “France in the Eighteenth Century. Lieutenant Andre Duvalier has been accidentally separated from his regiment. He is wandering near the coast when he sees a young woman and asks her for directions to Coldon, where he hopes to rejoin his regiment. But the woman doesn’t answer, doesn’t even greet him and walks away. Eventually she takes …

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: A vampire chick and her incompetent lackey end up in a small town full of an assortment of rednecks, white trash, and just back woods idiots in general. It isn’t long before the town’s residents are being turned into bloodsucking vampires and all sorts of goofiness ensue. REVIEW: In my opinion it is extremely rare …

Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “After several locals are viciously murdered, a Louisiana sheriff starts to suspect he may be dealing with a werewolf.” REVIEW: This week I have a film that has never been shown in a cinema anywhere in the world. Never at a drive-in. Never on a double-bill with Plan Nine From Outer Space (1959), not even as a …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Eddie Roberts saw something horrible as a child: the torture murder of a woman. Now as an adult, the experience has led to his torturing and murdering young women. REVIEW: We’re in a day and age where everything under the sun has been done. It’s because of that, that you can also recognize the true horror …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: 19-year-old Alice returns to the magical world from her childhood adventure, where she reunites with her old friends and learns of her true destiny: to end the Red Queen’s reign of terror. REVIEW:  From the looks of the crowds gathering during premiere weekend, this one is sure to be a money maker…not to mention the fact …

SYNOPSIS: “In 1858 Texas, the former German dentist Doctor King Schultz meets the slave Django in a lonely road while being transported by the slavers Speck Brothers. He asks if Django knows the Brittle Brothers and with the affirmative, he buys Django. Then Schultz states that he is a bounty hunter chasing John, Ellis and Roger Brittle and proposes a …

SYNOPSIS: An unspeakable evil has come into our dimension and wants to rule over Earth, and only a mysterious sorceror known as Doctor Mordrid can stop him. RE VIEW: It may be hard to imagine this nowadays, but there was a time when Marvel wasn’t as careful with licensing for movies based on their properties. This is what led to …

SYNOPSIS: A star, Miyuki Goto (Ko Shibasaki) plays Oiwa, the protagonist in a new play based on the ghost story Yotsuya Kaidan. She pulls some strings to get her lover, Kosuke Hasegawa (Ebizo Ichikawa) cast in the play, even though he’s a relatively unknown actor. Other performers Rio Asahina (Miho Nakanishi) and Jun Suzuki (Hideaki Ito) lust after Miyuki. Off …

  SYNOPSIS: Reincarnated “Satanic Witch” from New Amsterdam, circa 1600’s comes back to revive her cult members by sucking the life force out of people. REVIEW: Today’s dive into B-movie mania is a little film called Necropolis.It was executive produced by Charles Dance, a man who’s managed to make a name for himself in schlock cinema through his Empire Pictures …

SYNOPSIS: The sequel to ‘Galaxy Destroyer’ which finds our hero Harry Trent wandering Earth’s post-apocalyptic landscape full of mutants, monsters, and fragmented human tribes. Harry’s attempt to help a young girl rescue her sisters, leads him to a group of armed mutants led by a human madman attempting to breed them and take over the world. REVIEW: When I ran …

SYNOPSIS: A photographer is taken prisoner by a cannibalistic tribe while on assignment to shoot photos of the local wildlife. After enduring several acts of torture at their hand he soon becomes a member of the tribe, finds love, and assists them in their ongoing war with a rival group of natives. REVIEW: Having seen the infamous Cannibal Ferox (AKA …

SYNOPSIS: Flesh of the Void is a terribly disturbing experimental horror film about what it could feel like if death truly were the most horrible thing one could ever experience. It is intended as a trip through the deepest fears of human beings, exploring its subject in a highly grotesque, violent and extreme manner.

SYNOPSIS: While on vacation, suburbanite Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks) wants nothing more than to fritter away his time at home — drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube. But when new, secretive neighbors move in next door, Ray and his friends (Bruce Dern and Rick Ducommun) let their paranoia get the best of them …

SYNOPSIS: A group of college students travel to a mysterious island to attend a rave, which is soon taken over by bloodthirsty zombies. REVIEW: House of the Dead was one of the first video game adaptations that was directed by Uwe Boll, and it was the first film that really brought him him attention to mainstream American audiences. However, the …