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.
Alex Hayes (Beverly Hills, 90210‘s Joe E. Tata) is a corrupt developer sitting atop an empire built on backstabbing, fraud and evicting elderly tenants in sub-zero weather. But karma doesn’t just knock on Alex’s door. It crawls right up through the floorboards via a jackhammer wielded by his recently deceased, ladder-plunged former business partner, Jacob […]
2. THAT’S COOKED: Has to have a cooking scene; could be food or drugs or Soylent Green (oops, we burned that one for you). You keep your serial killer uncle’s brain in a mason jar, butcher immoral women and serve up the leftovers to unsuspecting vegetarians. Who are you? You’re the stars of director Jackie […]
Before the modern era of self-branded pop superstars, Jayne Mansfield wrote the blueprint. As one of the definitive defining bombshells of the 1950s and 60s, she brilliantly weaponized her own public persona, combining high-IQ intellect (she was a classical pianist and spoke multiple languages) with magnetic, over-the-top camp and screen charisma. Mansfield transcends standard Hollywood […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Son of Dracula was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, March 5, 1966 at 1:00 a.m.; October 31, 1966 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, May 10, 1969 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, No vember 4, 1972 at 11:30 p.m.; Saturday, November 17, 1973 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, February 22, 1975 at 3:00 a.m.; Saturday, November 15, […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Mission Stardust was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, September 26, 1970; Saturday, January 9, 1971 at 1:00 a.m. and Saturday, July 6, 1974 at 1:00 a.m. Known in Italy as 4…3…2…1…Morte, in West Germany as Perry Rhodan – SOS aus dem Weltall and in Spain as Órbita mortal, this euro-pulp blast-off is based […]
BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Was Roger Corman in the David Carradine business? Because almost every movie in the 80s and 90s by either person seems connected. And hey, why pay for new footage when you can just dig up old Corman cinematic corpses, dust them off and drop […]
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again set up 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: When Nature Attacks Unlike features that hide their […]
1. HUNTING SEASON IS OPEN!: This season’s opener will have some kind of seeking, stalking, tracking or trapping, you know… hunting! Tally ho! If your only frame of reference for America’s favorite fictional small-town sheriff is Mayberry’s gentle, homespun wisdom, watching 1974’s Savages is like finding out Uncle Bee moonlights as a syndicate hitman. Months […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Monster of Pedras Blancas was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, October 23, 1965 at 1:00 a.m.; Saturday, September 23, 1967 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, June 8, 1968 at 11:20 p.m. Irvin Berwick and Jack Kevan were nobodies at Universal. Kevan hated working for makeup department boss Bud Westmore, who took all […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Warhead was on the CBS Late Movie on August 24, 1977 and May 11, 1978 as Prisoner in the Middle. Warhead (also known as Prisoner in the Middle, Sabra Command and Mission Overkill) is a 1977 geopolitical drama shot in Israel back in 1973. It was directed by John O’Connor in his sole […]
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