For lovers of movies from the silent era to modern day with an emphasis on horror, sci-fi, exploitation, WIP, westerns and anything of the fantastic and bizarre. THIS SITE IS DEDICATED TO BOB WILKINS, GEORGE ROMERO, ALAN FREED, ROGER CORMAN, HELGA LINE, CAROLINE MUNRO, JOHN FREDRIKSEN, JOHN ZACHERLE, CLEO MOORE , ROSALBA NERI, ERIKA BLANC, FEMI BENUSSI, SHIRLEY CORRIGAN, ROSANNA YANNI, MIRTA MILLER, KARIN DOR, BARBARA BOUCHET, MAMIE VAN DOREN, BARBARA STEELE and, of course, CASEY KASEM.
Sunday, November 25, 2012
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.....
Christina Applegate is 41, Kathryn Grant is 79, Darlanne Fluegel is 54, Noel Neill is 92, and Beverly Washburn is 69.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
CHOPPING MALL 1986 (LIONSGATE)
Fun little sci-fi romp from 1986 directed by Jim Wynorski.
A group of young people are trapped in a mall after closing by three "killbots" who are brought to life when lightning strikes to Mall. These robots are supposed to protect the mall and stop intruders, but they instead have a mind of their own.
Kelli Maroney and sexy as hell Barbara Crampton are just two of the people trapped by the killer robots. There are some pretty cool effects here and one girl gets her head blasted off!!
There are small roles by Paul Bartel and Mary Woronov as the Blands and Dick Miller as Walter Paisley. Movies back in the 80's were always so much fun, and this is a prime example. Recommended!!
THE VINEYARD 1989 (IMAGE)
James Hong stars as Elson Po, a wine grower who seems to have been around forever.
A group of young actors are invited to the island and along for the ride is a young man doing a news story on Po, who snoops around and finds out some very odd things.
It seems Po is eternal as long as he mixes the blood of women with other special chemicals and drinks it every once in a while. Karen Witter is a sexy young actress whom Po wants as his bride and Michael Wong is the young man doing the investigating.
Plenty of horror pulp images such as walking dead men, women chained up in a dungeon, aged demons and so forth. Not a bad film and it was also directed by James Hong as well.
PSYCHO 1960 (UNIVERSAL)
This is the grand daddy of all horror films!!
Alfred Hitchcock directed the all time classic thriller about a psycho named Norman Bates that murders people who stay at his small motel because his mother doesn't like him to talk to strange women.
This movie has lost none of it's punch over the year despite having been remade and ripped off for years. The shower scene will always be the best filmed horror scene ever and Universal put an "R" rating on the DVD box which is rubbish.
If you have not yet seen this film...see it soon.
Friday, November 23, 2012
RIP LARRY HAGMAN 1931-2012
The man most famous for playing JR Ewing has died at the age of 81 after battling cancer.
For 14 years Hagman played JR Ewing, the evil ruler of an oil empire on the show Dallas.
His break came in 1965 as he got the a starring role on the show I Dream Of Jeannie along side Barbara Eden. He also directed a horror film called Beware The Blob back in 1972.
A true talent and a man who will be missed.
HANDS OF A STRANGER 1962 (MILL CREEK)
Strange film and a good concept.
James Stapleton plays a pianist whose hands are crushed in a bizarre accident and a doctor transplants the hands of a gangster onto the man. Lovely Joan Harvey is the sister of the pianist and at first she is against the operation and the doctor who did it, but she slowly comes around to acceptance.
The man kills people in various ways while under the influence of the new hands, and this brings in the police who question the doctor and all involved with the case. Paul Lukather is the doctor who performs the surgery, Larry Haddon is the detective on the case and Irish McCalla is a nurse and finally you have a young and sexy Sally Kellerman as a young woman killed by the maniac.
Sometimes overly talkative, but none the less entertaining.
CLASS OF 1999 (1990 LIONSGATE)
Mark Lester, who directed Class of 1984 is back at it again.
Root teachers have secretly been placed in a school where the police never go and people die on a daily basis. They are meant to control the children, but something goes terribly wrong and they begin killing students randomly.
Pam Grier, John Ryan and Patrick Kilpatrick are the three robots who take the law into their own hands and start a turf war between two rival gangs in the hopes they will kill each other off. Malcolm McDowell is the principle and Stacy Keach is the creator of the robots.
This is a well made and enjoyable film with plenty of action and a good social commentary on US society in general. Recommended!!
IF ONLY DEPARTMENT....
If only Boris Karloff were alive today he would be celebrating another birthday. All horror fans will ALWAYS remember him and his legacy.
Boris Karloff 1887-1969
Thursday, November 22, 2012
RIP DEBORAH RAFFIN 1953-2012
Actress Deborah Raffin who starred in such films as God Told Me To, Death Wish 3 and Nightmare in Badham County has died from leukemia at the age of 59.
She also ran an audiobook company with her husband. Her talent will be missed.
THE COLD 1984 (MILL CREEK)
An odd and disjointed film, but and interesting one.
Bill Rebane directed this film about a group of three millionaires who gather people into a house and offer them one million dollars if they can survive their worst fears.. it seems like part of this film is missing and there is a lot that goes on unexplained, especially the ending.
This isn't to say the film is uninteresting, it isn't. I enjoyed it and found the acting to be about normal for this kind of movie, but I do wish I had a back story with it to help explain several things.
THE DISEMBODIED 1957 (WARNER ARCHIVE)
This is an excellent example of great 50's exploitation horror!!
Ultra sexy Allison Hayes is Tonda, the leader of a voodoo cult who tries to make a photographer fall for her using black magic and murder.
Hayes does a great job especially when gyrating to jungle drums and voodoo rites. My god, when I was a kid I was entranced and now I am even more so at my age now. Paul Burke is the man she wants and John Wengraf is her husband who also is trapped by her murderous voodoo magic.
The print from WA is excelletn and in widescreen to boot. The film has NEVER looked better and I highly recommend it for any horror fan or any fan of Hayes.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO.....
A VERY HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE AND TO THE FIRST TWO LOVELY LADIES MENTIONED IN THIS BIRTHDAY POST, ALL I CAN SAY IS I ENJOYED WORKING WITH BOTH OF THEM. Scarlett Johansson is 28, Jamie Lee Curtis is 54, Mariel Hemingway is 51, and Robert Vaughn is 80.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
DEMONS OF LUDLOW 1983 (MILL CREEK)
Filmed in Wisconsin thriller from Bill Rebane.
A small town gets an piano for it's community church from a man in England, and it turns out that the item, when played, brings ghosts and demons to life to extract revenge on those that cut a man's hands off years ago.
Odd plot, but done very well with some genuine scares and some not bad effects for a film like this. Not a bad little ghost film and the actors all handle their roles well and the piano also bleeds and bounces around!!
Recommended horror film for regional horror film buffs.
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