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.
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again host a fundraiser for Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and providing them with happy homes. Today’s theme: Sweden Swedish director and co-writer Joakim Ersgård—alongside his […]
18. CREEPETITION: Rewatch the first movie you ever saw that really made your skin crawl. Don’t be scared, we got you. After Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town and Frosty the Snowman proved that Rankin and Bass were essentially running a stop-motion sweatshop powered by eggnog, pipe tobacco and other things smoked in a pipe, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Invasion of the Vampires was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, June 14, 1969 at 1:00 a.m. Invasion of the Vampires is directed by Miguel Morayta, who also made one of my favorite strange south-of-the-border films, Dr. Satan. For the uninitiated, diving into Morayta’s cinematic universe means plunging headfirst into gothic European tropes crashing […]
Has there ever been a better video box? Jeffrey Franken (James Lorinz) is a bioelectrical scientist who works at a power plant. His life in New Jersey was going so well until his fiancée Elizabeth’s (Patty Mullen) father (J.J. Clark) gives him a lawnmower as a wedding present. It goes wild — yes, really — […]
Valerio Barigozzi (played with fantastic sleazy neuroticism by Italian pop crooner turned actor Johnny Dorelli, How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover) is a struggling giallo novelist who makes his day-to-day bread writing an agony aunt advice column under the nom de plume Countess Esmerelda for a Rome daily paper. One afternoon, instead […]
I don’t know if this is horror, exactly, but it’s Takeshi Miike, so anything goes. Part of the Love Cinema series, which contains six straight-to-video releases by independent filmmakers that played an exclusive engagement at the Shimokitazawa cinema in Tokyo, this was made on digital video to keep the budget low but also capture the […]
As a 15-year-old, I absolutely hated this movie. He-Man was a well-known property with a series that was on TV every day, one of the best-selling toys and just about everyone knew everything there was about the mythos of Eternia, but the movie only spends a few minutes in Eternia and has human characters in […]
Dean Koontz—whose own website proclaims him the “International Bestselling Master of Suspense”—has sold over 450 million copies of his books, but it always seems like he’s a little behind Stephen King. I mean, that’s not a bad thing, as King was just a monolith when it came to selling books. But Koontz was successful as well; […]
If you’re going to adapt a gritty, boundary-pushing fumetti neri comic book from the mid-1960s, you’d expect the cinematic translation to revel in the dirt. Created by Max Bunker (Luciano Secchi) and Magnus (Roberto Raviola), the original Kriminal comic wasn’t playing nice. Its antihero, Anthony Logan—a criminal mastermind hiding behind a literal yellow skeleton mask—was […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: This review comes from my friend Paul Andolina. In 2013 I watched Rigor Mortis, a more serious take on the Chinese Hopping Vampire films of the 80’s. Goeng-si are a type of reanimated corpse, dressed in traditional garb that hop around and suck people’s life force out. Discovering this movie had me searching […]
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