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: Series Episode September 11, 1977 was the night. that […]
15. WORKPLACE WHOOPSIE: O.S.H.A. inspectors are gonna need a whole case of red tape for this day. Even if there aren’t as many anymore, the shopping mall is the ultimate cathedral of American consumer dread. Meredith Alloway’s debut feature Forbidden Fruits—co-written by Lily Houghton and produced by Diablo Cody—pays its respects to those who keep […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Crack In the World was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 25, 1970 at 11:30 p.m. and Saturday, November 20, 1971 at 11:30 p.m. Andrew Marton was an expert on big movies, doing second unit on Ben-Hur and Cleopatra. He directed this—from a script by Juliet Zimet and Jon Manchip White—in which some […]
Directed by Elliott Hong and written by David B. Randolph and Tim Clawson, They Call Me Bruce? begins with a young Bruce watching his grandfather die and being unable to save him. He tells the boy that a beautiful woman in America will take care of him. Then we see that Bruce (Johnny Yune) has become […]
Gary Graver was many things—a film director, editor, screenwriter and cinematographer — and, as Robert McCallum, the director and cinematographer of 135 adult movies. He’s in the Adult Video News Hall of Fame for his work, including Amanda By Night, Coed Fever, Suzie Superstar and Unthinkable, which won the AVN Award for Best All-Sex Video […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, April 23, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. Directed, written and produced by Michael Carreras (with a little screenplay assist from Alvin Rakoff), The Curse of the Mummy’s Tomb drops us straight into Egypt in the year 1900 as Englishmen John Bray (Ronald […]
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: Bava (Mario or Lamberto) Lamberto Bava is not his […]
Movies like this are why we created this website. Terrorvision is a lunatic voyage into the 80s, with its tongue planted so firmly in its cheek that it’s gorily popping out the other side. It’s one of the strangest films you’ll see. And it gets a high recommendation from us. Why? Ted Nicolaou directed more than […]
14. SUBJECT TO SURVEILLABILITY: Ever feel like you’re being watched? Decades before reality TV, live-streaming and The Truman Show, Paul Bartel’s surreal paranoia classic, The Secret Cinema, proved that someone is always watching. Before he gave us the glorious, dystopian carnage of Death Race 2000 or Eating Raoul, Bartel cobbled together $5,000, snagged leftover black-and-white […]
Norman J. Warren is the kind of director who knows exactly what you want. You aren’t coming to one of his movies to learn some life lesson or to go to a salon and debate afterward. No, you’re here for all the reasons that you watch horror and exploitation movies. You want to be shocked, […]
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