Are you ready for a Double Bigfoot Drive-In Double Feature?
This Saturday, August 8 at 8 PM — yes, 8/8/2020 at 8 PM, which feels like some kind of occult ritual is about to happen — we’ll be conjuring up two visions of the sasquatch, the yeti, the skunk ape…the Bigfoot! Up first, 1974’s Shriek of the Mutilated! Here’s a drink just perfect for draining while […]
SAVAGE CINEMA: The Pink Angels (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie originally ran on our site during our Biker Week event on July 24, 2018. It has perhaps one of my favorite trailers of all time. And seeing how it ended up on the Mill Creek Savage Cinema set, let’s take another look at it. I have no idea who this movie […]
SAVAGE CINEMA: The Hellcats (1968)
The Mill Creek Savage Cinema set features an image from this film’s poster on its cover. Seeing as how this was also known as Biker Babes, it’s probably the most suggestive — and therefore best possible selling — film to feature. The Hellcats bury Big Daddy, who was killed by their mob contact Mr. Adrian (Robert […]
Red Line 7000 (1965)
You know how it is at B&S About Movies: discussing mainstream, Tinseltown-made movies is anathema. So when we started digging into the antecedents of The Fast and the Furious franchise for this tribute week, you know we’re heading to the VHS shelves stocked with the films directed by Daniel Haller (Die Monster, Die, Devil’s Angels, […]
Fireball 500 (1966)
William Asher’s career was mostly in TV — he was a driving force behind I Love Lucy and Bewitched — and making AIP’s beach movies work. The one aberration is the movie Butcher, Baker Nightmare Maker, which is a mindblowing piece of film that I encourage everyone to see. AIP was always ahead of the teen curve, as they […]
SAVAGE CINEMA: Death Riders (1976)
Let’s roll the dice on that Mill Creek Savage Cinema box set one more time. This time? An American mondo exploration of the Death Riders, a group of stuntmen travelling the country, picking up ladies and blowing one another up real good. You have to love a movie with the tagline, ” A Motion Picture […]
2 Fast 2 Furious (2003)
John Singleton, who directed Boyz n the Hood, stepped into the chair for the second film in the franchise, which loses Vin Diesel and keeps Paul Walker. This is how Roman Pearce (Tyrese) and Tej Parker (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) ended up becoming part of the movie family. After letting Dominic, former LAPD officer Brian O’Conner […]
SAVAGE CINEMA: Burnout (1979)
The Mill Creek Savage Cinema box set has twelve movies, some with great looking pictures, others that have been battered beyond belief. If you’re not a snob, you’ll find something enjoyable on this. I know I did! I started with this film, one of the few drag racing movies that I’ve ever watched. If you […]
The Racing Scene (1969)
James Garner was a huge star in 1969, coming off the TV series Maverick and roles in films like The Great Escape, Support Your Local Sheriff! and Marlowe, a movie in which he fought Bruce Lee. He also made the movie Grand Prix for John Frankenheimer, which was the sixth movie of his that didn’t do well at the box office. […]
Banzai Runner (1987)
We’ve mentioned this VHS potboiler in passing during our reviews of Rocktober Blood and Larry Buchanan’s Down on Us (you know how it works: we’ll get to that tidbit, later). Thanks to Sam dreaming up a “Fast and Furious Tribute Week” — and his excavating the Jim Drake 1989 VHS uber-obscurity, Speed Zone — we […]
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