Director: Jack Hill
Writer: Jack Hill
Release year: 1968
Seductive Innocence of LOLITA… Savage hunger of a BLACK WIDOW!
Enjoy this fantastic flick about two inbred little sisters with a condition that turns them into infantile vicious little demons!
The full review for this movie can be found here.
Director: Timo Vuorensola
Writer: Rudi Airisto, Jarmo Puskala, Samuli Torssonen (creator)
Release Year: 2005
I normally dislike parodies and most indie movies, but this one is an exception to the rule. Star Wreck is a no-budget movie featuring effects that can rival Hollywood blockbusters and certainly beats them in terms of wit, story, humour and, well, everything else. Except maybe the acting from some of the less important characters but that’s to be expected when they’re mostly friends and relatives.
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Writer: Muriel Roy Bolton and Ian McLellan Hunter based on a story by Crane Wilbur
Release Year: 1948
When Horror and Film Noir collide!
Historically, it’s always thought that after living a time of great splendor in America during the first decade of sound, the horror genre disappeared in the 40s, the years of World War II, to cede its place to the propaganda of war films, the paranoia of spy films, and the cynicism of Film Noir. Horror is supposed to be dormant, only to be resurrected in the 50s with Atom era horrors and the films of Hammer Studio.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Writers: Nicholas St. John
Release year: 1979
The Blood Runs In Rivers… And The Drill Keeps Tearing Through Flesh And Bone
“OH FUCK, there’s, like, this guy and he appears to be a maniac in possession of a drill!”: The Movie. A struggling artist, lives in a a shithole with his braindead girl, some shitty punk band moves in next door and never stops playing, inner-city life’s filthiness gets a little on his nerves. So he does what any reasonable fellow would do under these circumstances, and goes on a murdering rampage with a drill.
To commemerate Edgar Allan Poe’s 200th birthday this very day, I thought it would be appropriate to break my rule of one movie a week and present you these wonderful films based on Poe’s story The Fall of the House of Usher. Both films are made in 1928 and are silent movies. If you don’t want to offend Edgar Allan Poe’s ghost, you should at least watch the fantastic surreal shortfilm by James Sibley Watson, but if you want to show his rotting corpse the respect it so deserves you’d better watch the full movie by Jean Epstein too.
Director: Anthony M. Lanza
Writer: James Gordon White and John Lawrence
Release Year: 1971
One Wants to Love, One Wants to Kill! Two heads grafted to the body of a giant!
It’s not as bad as it sounds. That’s about it, really. Any real reviewer/filmfreak, feel free to expand upon my succinct yet true description of this glorious moment in film-history. If it sounds interesting, check it out I’d say.
Director: Ubaldo Ragona & Sidney Salkow
Writer: Richard Matheson (novel “I Am Legend”) & William F. Leicester
Release Year: 1964
Alive among the lifeless… alone among the crawling creatures of evil that make the night hideous with their inhuman craving!
An adaptation of the novel I Am Legend about a man trying to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, defending his home against hordes of zombie-vampires every night. There are many adaptations of this book and this is considered by many the best (the people with taste), which is not that surprising since it has Vincent Price instead of Will freakin’ Smith or Charlton cold dead hands Heston. And because the mood of the movie set by the desperation and loneliness of Morgan ofcourse. Also notice the similarities with Night of the Living Dead, released 4 years later.
Director: William Marshall
Writer: Fred Gebhardt (story/screenplay), William Telaak (screenplay), Fred De Gorter (screenplay), William Marshall (additional dialogue)
Release Year: 1961
See!! A 6 ft. astronaut shrink to 6 inches before your very eyes! See!! The Moon Maidens! See!! The attack of the Fire People! Starring DOLORES FAITH the Girl from Outer Space!
Prepare for an epic tale involving little people living on a piece of brocolli, vibrators flying through space and misplaced philosophical musings. All set in the futuristic eighties with their com-pu-tars and other such highly advanced machinery.
