B&S About Movies is all about, well, movies. It's owned and operated by Sam Panico. He is the sole proprietor and chief writer. All others are guest contributors.
Roller derby was once one of the most popular sports on UHF TV, vying with pro wrestling for ratings and attendance. And much like its cousins in the squared circle, it had predetermined finishes and storylines. Don’t blame me for breaking kayfabe—Unholy Rollers does this right off the bat, explaining how everything has to go […]
I’m obsessed with the subjective nature of reality. Neuroscience has something called predictive processing—a fancy way of saying your mind acts like a low-budget movie director, if you will and an editor, cutting together an objective reality using only the recycled stock footage of every belief, value and bad hangover you’ve collected along the way. […]
Directed by T.L.P. Swicegood—he also wrote Escape from Hell Island, and his name sounds like a lawyer you’d consult when you have a workers’ comp case — this 60-minute oddity opens with three guys in motorcycle helmets picking a name out of a phone book, heading over to a woman’s apartment, carving off her legs […]
Turns out The Island of Dr. Moreau is the next one over from Blood Island. This Filipino-lensed production was directed by the always dependable Eddie Romero and stars the equally trustworthy John Ashley. It’s everything you want it to be — trashy, goofy, transcendent. Matt Farrell (Ashley) is kidnapped by Neva Gordon (Pat Woodall, The […]
Former test pilot Will Zens found himself a maker of hicksploitation movies, thanks to movies like this, The Road to Nashville, Hell on Wheels and Hot Summer in Barefoot County. It was originally called Truckin’ Man until the producers thought a woman’s name would draw more money. Troma acquired this movie in 1983 and released […]
Directed by Roger Corman, written by Jack Nicholson and released by American-International Pictures, The Trip cost $100,000 to make and brought in $6 million dollars. Hollywood was listening, because within the next year, movies for the love generation were all over the place*. In fact, seven years after this movie, AIP’s Samuel Z. Arkoff said, […]
Released by American International Pictures as a double feature with Foxy Brown, this movie features Isaac Hayes as former pro football player turned bounty hunter Mack “Truck” Turner. After another successful job with his friend Jerry, he gets another bounty from Fogarty (Dick Miller), but not before seeing his girlfriend Annie (Annazette Chase, The Toy). […]
William Nigh had already made this movie before as The House of Mystery, but now he had Boris Karloff as the lead. As Dr. Bernard Adrian, he’s trying to cure polio through that mad scientist body magic known as spinal fluid. He’s so devoted to curing Frances Clifford (Maris Wrixon) so that she can marry Danny […]
If you’ve ever found yourself asking, “What’s the absolute creepiest service a company could possibly offer?”—director John Williams has the answer, and it’s a webcam stream straight into a freshly buried coffin. Co-directing with Steve Wood, Williams has made something really creepy here. The story follows Sean, a recovering alcoholic dealing with the recent death […]
Long before Ridley Scott dreamed up the rain-slicked neon gutters of Blade Runner, long before The Terminator sent metal skeletons marching through the ruins of Judgment Day and long before heavy metal bands slapped towering dystopian cityscapes onto their gatefold vinyl albums, there was Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. Even nearly a hundred years later, it’s wildly […]
You must be logged in to post a comment.