WLLIAM GREFE WEEK: Racing Fever (1964)
Yes, you go into a movie named Racing Fever expecting b-roll footage and sure, you get it, but this is also a William Gréfe movie, which means that you’re going to get South Florida drama, in this case, the story of professional hydroplane racer Pop Gunner who has one race left in him before he passes the […]
Contracts (2019)
Did you ever play with G.I. Joes? Did you ever spend an entire day setting up a gigantic battle with your friends and then wait for the carnage to begin, which soon ends up with nearly every single Joe and Cobra dead except for the two or three favorites of each person playing? Yep. That’s this […]
WILLIAM GREFE WEEK: The Naked Zoo (1970)
Rita Hayworth spent the last few years of her life not knowing who she was anymore, painting when she did, and mostly staring out her window at Central Park. She died with many people thinking that alcoholism had robbed her of her career when the truth was Alzheimer’s had impacted her final years and back […]
Return to Splatter Farm (2020)
Once upon a time, let’s say 1987, Mark and John Polonia made Splatter Farm, a shot on video slasher all about twins sent to live with their aunt who soon discover that her handyman is a killer. Thirty years in film time — and thirty-three in real life — and the killings have begun again in […]
Mill Creek Sci-Fi Invasion: The Giant of Marathon (1959)
Directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People, I Walked With a Zombie, Night of the Demon), this film also has a credit for Mario Bava as directing it. That’s because a few days before it was due to play theaters, major scenes had to be reshot when the editor discovered that several extras were smoking cigarettes on […]
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