Tag Archives: 1970

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: An aging actress living in her Hollywood mansion with a retinue of elderly servants employs a new, mentally disturbed, personal assistant who schemes to takeover the large estate. REVIEW: Sometimes, it is fun to imagine classic Hollywood films reworked into horror films. Instead of Rosebud being a sled, what if Rosebud was a ghost that haunted …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Hercules (Schwarzenegger) is sent to Earth where he finds true love and starts a promising career in the bodybuilder business. REVIEW: Arnold Schwarzenegger’s career in Hollywood is a unique one. He went from a body builder who was laughed at when he said he wanted to go into acting to be one of the biggest action …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his six year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man. El Topo (the mole) claims to be God, while dressed as a gunfighter in black, riding a horse through a spiritual, mystical landscape strewn with old …

SYNOPSIS: A young man, Paul Carlson, is on a trip and spends the night at Count Dracula’s castle. He is murdered. After some time has passed, the young man’s brother Simon comes to the small town where all the traces end to look for him. REVIEW: Hammer Film Studios used to be THE studio for gorgeous Gothic horror films. Starting …

SYNOPSIS: A mad scientist uses thunder and lightning to turn carnivorous plants into man-eating creatures. REVIEW: There are some films that manage to become so nonsensical enough that they manage to be strangely entertaining. I think we all have run across a movie like that at least once in our lives, where what we’re watching may not be good but …

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: To foil his plan for world domination, wrestling superheroes El Santo and Blue Demon battle the mad Dr. Halder and his army of reanimated monsters. REVIEW: Santo y Blue Demon Contra Los Monstruos, a.k.a. Santo and Blue Demon Against the Monsters, is the story of two luchador wrestlers who fight evil when they’re not performing in …

SYNOPSIS: “Sherlock Holmes becomes involved in the case of Gabrielle Valladon when the young woman is fished out of the river and brought to 221b Baker Street by a cabbie. She’s quite beautiful and doesn’t really remember who she is or why she mentioned Holmes’ name when found. Using his deductive powers, Holmes determines she is Belgian and having retrieved …

SYNOPSIS: “The wicked and powerful magistrate Lord Edward Whitman is a witch-hunter with his cruel sons Sean, Burke and Bully Boy in a small village in England. His wife Lady Patricia Whitman is deranged with the wickedness of Edward. His daughter Maureen is secretly in love with her stepbrother Roderick, who was an orphan found by Edward wandering on the …

SYNOPSIS: Wilbur Whateley, obsessed with the occult, take the Necronomicon out of Arkham’s Miskatonic University and also seduces a young beautiful woman to stay with him at his castle; but little do people know, is that Whateley isn’t quite human. REVIEW: Director: Daniel Haller Starring: Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley, Sandra Dee Based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Dunwich Horror, this movie …

SYNOPSIS: In Medival England, a sadistic duke plots to kill off all the heirs to the throne of England so he can claim he title crown for himself. REVIEW: To be honest I haven’t seen many exploitation films. More recent exercises in the genre – Black Dynamite and Grindhouse are both in my top favourite films. However these films replicate …