Attack of the Fifty Foot Nothing
“Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman” is total and utter tripe. And I wasn’t expecting much, just a few scenes in which the titular gal stomps on some really dodgy-looking miniature buildings, but we don’t get even that! In fact, we don’t even see the giantess of the title until the last 10 minutes of […]
Attack of the Giant Leeches!
For some strange reason ( probably wanting to shut my brain down for a while, thereby preventing the kind of cerebral event that would make a real mess of my study walls) I recently took it upon myself to watch some really, really low budget movies from the fifties and sixties. This decision turned out […]
Boris Karloff meets Charles Whitman
SPOILERS AHEAD “Targets” is one of those movies I’ve been curious about for decades but never gotten round to watching. Until last week, when I got round to watching it… “Targets” is noteworthy for two reasons. First, it was Peter Bogdanovich’s first film as director and, second, it was one of Boris Karloff’s last films […]
Boris Karloff Meets Jack Nicholson
“The Terror” is a terrible, terrible movie, made by Roger Corman only to squeeze some more money out of the sets for “The Haunted Palace” before he sent them to the knacker’s yard. Not surprisingly the only good thing about this mess is the sets, though I must admit the cinematography is also quite adequate. […]
Beware The Giant Snail People
SPOILERS AHEAD A couple of years ago, at around the time that Redd Inc. came out, I mysteriously lost interest in horror movies. For about three decades horror had been my favorite genre and suddenly I didn’t care anymore. I still don’t know what happened, It’s not as if I decided horror movies were evil […]
Supes And Bats In “My Kid Cousin”
Spoilers ahead : If you haven’t seen it, don’t read it. One might think that an animated movie about the origin of Supergirl would be titled “The Origin of Supergirl” or “Heeere’s Supergirl” or even the above bit about the kid cousin. But no, for some strange reason the people at DC called it Apocalypse. […]
Sly And Arnie Go Stir Crazy
Spoilers ahead – if you haven’t seen the movie Escape Plan, you probably shouldn’t read this. Like all civilized and discerning people, I have long awaited the day when Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger would co-star in an action movie. Not like the Expendables movies, in which Arnie is just the monkey to Sly’s organ […]