Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate (1971)
Oh Ted Post. You made Beneath the Planet of the Apes. You directed Magnum Force. On TV, you were in the director’s chair for episodes of Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, Wagon Train, Rawhide, The Twilight Zone, Combat!, Columbo, 178 episodes of Peyton Place and the TV movie that launched Cagney and Lacey. You made The Baby. If that alone […]
Baltic Tribes (2018)
Known as Baltu Ciltis, this film is all about religious rituals, the Battle of Saule, the Crusaders battles and the fiery battles for the free land. Who were the last pagans of Europe and who did they believe? You’ll discover all of that here in this film, in which Danish spy Lars enters the tribal lands of […]
Terror at Tenkiller (1986)
In rural Oklahoma, late one night, Tor (Michael Shamus Wiles, Breaking Bad, Sons of Anarchy) murders Denise and then dumps her body in Lake Tenkiller. So begins the 1986 one and done film by Ken Meyer, Terror at Tenkiller. Soon, Leslie and Janna show up for a vacation at the remote cabin in the woods, but are they next on […]
Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks (1974)
Known in Italy as Terror! Il Castello Delle Donne Maledette (Terror! The Castle of Cursed Women), this movie was released as Terror Castle, The House of Freaks, The Monsters of Dr. Frankenstein and Dr. Frankenstein’s Castle of Freaks in the U.S., while it was named Frankenstein’s Castle in the UK. According to Roberto Curti’s Italian Gothic Horror Films, 1970–1979, no one can […]
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
With the totally awesome working titles The Fantastic Puppet People and I Was a Teenage Doll, as well as the provocative UK title Six Inches Tall, this Bert I. Gordon auteur project — he wrote, directed and produced — was rushed into theaters by AIP to capitalize on the success of the previous year’s The Incredible […]
Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
I love Jillian Bell. She elevates everything she is in, from Workaholics to 22 Jump Street. So I was excited to see her star in a film, despite it seeming like pure formula from its trailer. The good news is it that it’s anything but. Paul Downs Colaizzo was born in Pittsburgh, but raised in Georgia and […]
Five Minutes to Live (1961)
It doesn’t matter how many hipsters embrace Johnny Cash. Cash transcends labels and goes beyond demographics. As a teenager, that photo of him violently thrusting his middle finger toward the camera got me through high school. And his book, Cash: The Autobiography is filled with the kind of amazing BS stories that probably aren’t true but totally […]
Drive-In Asylum #18 now on sale!
SAM’S NOTE: I love when a new Drive-In Asylum comes out. This issue has an article from me about Santo and Blue Demon Vs. The Monsters, as well as several paintings I made of Cheryl Rainbeaux Smith! I even included a sneak preview below! Here’s the hype! Richard Blackburn’s Lemora: A Child’s Tale of the Supernatural is […]
Hesher (2010)
If you aren’t an uberfan of Metallica, chances are you never heard of Hesher—the film. And what exactly is the plotting of a film featuring the music of Metallica? Heath Ledger’s The Joker sums up Hesher, the man, best with these words of wisdom: “Do I really look like a guy with a plan? You […]
The Mad Doctor of Blood Island (1969)
We’re back ten years after we first got to Blood Island. Eddie Romero and Gerardo de Leon have returned in the directing chair, and this time, they’ve brought even more blood, beasts and boobs than they did in their last effort, Brides of Blood. This film was syndicated to TV as Tomb of the Living Dead and […]
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