Backwoods (2020)
High school cheerleader Molly (Isabella Alberti, Triggered) wakes up drugged, bound and gagged in the trunk of her boyfriend’s car before she runs into the forest of Hangman’s Hollow, only to meet an urban legend. That’s right — The Hangman is a deformed monster who lynches any man that comes on his property and keeps the […]
Drag Racer (1972)
“(A) versatile and underrated B-movie Renaissance man.” — IMDb, about actor-director John “Bud” Cardos. That’s the understatement of the century, ye IMDb database scribe. Look at that short — but hit-packed director’s resume: Kingdom of the Spiders (we need to review that one!), The Dark! The Day Time Ended! Mutant! Gor II: Outlaw of Gor! […]
Dixie Dynamite (1976)
Okay, so this is more grindhouse . . . than fast. And it’s more hicksploitation . . . than furious. But this Smokey and the Bandit, drive-in rush job by Lawrence Woolner’s — an exhibitor who had made a number of films, including several with Roger Corman — Dimension Pictures under the thumb of Warner […]
Moving Violation (1976)
You know how it goes. You’re a drifter (in this case, you’re played by Stephen McHattie) and you pick up a girl with some ice cream (who in this occasion is played by Kay Lenz, who was so great in House, The Initiation of Sarah and Stripped to Kill) when you see a cop kill a […]
The Ghost of Dragstrip Hollow (1959)
The follow-up to Hot Rod Gang, this American-International Pictures film was released as a double feature with Diary of a High School Bride, which like all AIP movies has an astounding title. Much like the late era beach party films, this one is tired of the genre — AIP had so many car-related movies released in […]
Thunder in Carolina (1960)
Filmed at small dirt ovals throughout the Southern U.S. and set at the 1959 NASCAR Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway — with footage shot at the event itself with star Rory Calhoun actually racing some actual laps — this stock car racing movie is a favorite of Quentin Tarantino. He said of the film, “There are […]
Flash and the Firecat (1975)
We’ve talked quite a bit about writer-director-producers Ferd and Beverly Sebastian in the paragraphs of our reviews for ‘Gator Bait and AC/DC: Let There Be Rock (which they imported and recut) and Rocktober Blood* (four times!). The drive-in oeuvre of their Sebastian International Pictures was a studio that was second-to-none in churning out one Roger […]
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