Monday, August 8th, 2011 by Marco Freitas
Albert Pyun is an independent filmmaker with a very strong cult following among cinephiles from all over the world. His movies, often dealing with fantastic themes, set in faraway lands where androids live next to humans (not in a very friendly way), dystopic planets or urban dramas where guns and high kicks speak louder than words are revered by extreme film buffs while despised by lots of film critics. He started making homemovies before reaching puberty, shooting small adventures on a borrowed 8mm camera and in the sixties, was invited by famous Japanese actor Toshirô Mifune to spend some time in the Land of The Rising Sun to learn filmmaking. His casts are a veritable who’s who in genre and non-genre filmmaking: Kris Kristofferson, Lance Henriksen, Lee Horsley, Richard Lynch, Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Rob Lowe, Burt Reynolds, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michael Nouri, Bill Mumy, Michael Paré, Kevin Sorbo, Teri Hatcher, Andrew ‘Dice’ Clay and many others.
A recent interview with Mr. Pyun, conducted by Marco Freitas…
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Category: Articles, Interviews
Friday, August 5th, 2011 by Vomitron
Director: William Beaudine
Writer: Carl K. Hittleman
Release Year: 1966
They should have never met.
When outlaw Jesse James (John Lupton) and his friend Hank Tracy (Cal Bolder) get ambushed during a robbery, they barely manage to escape. With the authorities on their trail and Hank severely wounded, they seek shelter at an old monastery which just happens to be inhabited by Mary Frankenstein (Narda Onyx), the granddaughter of the legendary European mad scientist.
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Category: Horror, Reviews, Science Fiction, Western Tags: Cheezy Drive-In
Friday, August 5th, 2011 by Fawn Krisenthia
Director: Jeff Lieberman
Writer: Jeff Lieberman
Release Year: 1978
Bald Rage!
A man appears to lose his mind (along with his hair) and goes on a mad killing spree. When Jerry Zipkin (Zalman King), a young man in his 30s, is wrongly accused of being the murderer, he sets out to do his own investigation while eluding police.
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Category: Horror, Reviews, Thriller Tags: Drugs, Mr. Horror, Mystery
Friday, July 8th, 2011 by Vomitron
Director: Fred Olen Ray
Writer: Fred Olen Ray and T.L. Lankford
Release year: 1983
Watching a Fred Olen Ray film is like popping happy pills: They’re not exactly healthy for your brain, but they make you laugh anyway.
Indians. They’re best left alone. They have peaceful ways, but if you hassle them, you’re in for some real trouble. History has taught us that. Even from beyond the grave they can come back for revenge. And taking up residence in the eternal spirit world, gives them great powers. Movies have taught us that. And Fred Olen Ray made one about it.
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Category: Horror, Reviews Tags: Slasher, Supernatural
Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 by Perfesser Deviant
Director: Constantine S. Gochis
Writer: William Vernick
Release Year: 1978
Aka title: Class Reunion Massacre
By the doubling of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.
From a dark lake filling the bottom of an abandoned quarry rises a little boy (Christopher Flint) who then catches a bus. This startling scene, though almost disconnected from the bulk of the film, show us that we’re in for something unusual. While a group of jerkoffs at a high-school reunion getting bumped off isn’t entirely original, this one tries to be something different by having the killer be something far from the norm…. Read the rest of this article »
Category: Fantasy, Horror, Reviews Tags: Revenge, Slasher