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.
I love an R-rated comedy. We don’t get enough of them, and hey, I grew up on lemon popsicles, by which I mean teen sex comedies, as well as Police Academy and all of its many descendants. Remember when that gang of Vermont state troopers won over our hearts by meowing, playing the license-and-registration game, […]
There is no defense for teen sex comedies and I don’t care. That’s what I feel like talking about, the movies where twentysomething youths all converge on a beach, a frat party or a fart contest to start making out, making babies and getting in trouble. Youth is wasted on the young. This episode, I’ll […]
Directed by Victor Halperin (White Zombie, Supernatural) Torture Ship is based (extremely loosely) on Jack London’s 1899 short story A Thousand Deaths. This brief 64-minute oddity blends sci-fi, pre-code-style gangster tropes and maritime melodrama into a surprisingly fun, breezy exploitation flick. Irving Pichel stars as Dr. Herbert Stander, a rogue physician obsessed with proving that […]
This is Scary Movie 6 but it’s more like Scary Movie 3, as its the first movie since Scary Movie 2 for the Wayans family, who quit due to creative conflicts with the original producers. After the massive box office run of Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2, Marlon, Shawn and Keenen Ivory Wayans pitched […]
Based on “They Creep in the Dark” by Karl Brown, this William Beaudine-directed, Barney Sarecky-written film stars Bela Lugosi as Dr. James Brewster, a scientist whose experiments have turned him into an ape-man. He needs human spinal fluid to transform back into a man again, which, as you can imagine, leads to him killing all […]
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 […]
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