The Great Los Angeles Earthquake (1990)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. The Great Los Angeles Earthquake is essentially a TV miniseries version of the 1974 disaster movie Earthquake. It makes no attempt to hide this fact, as within the first ten […]
The Phantom of Hollywood (1974)
The Phantom of Hollywood was one of the last films shot on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer backlot, which was being demolished at the time of filming. It’s actually a major plot point, as it takes the place of the backlot of Worldwide Studios, the fictional studio within this movie. A disfigured actor — just like the Phantom […]
Time Travelers (1976)
Time Travelers was scripted by Jackson Gillis (whose career stretched back to radio) from a story by Rod Serling (which led to a lawsuit, as Charles Willard Byrd claimed that this movie was taken from an unpublished 1959 book A Time To Live. Byrd and the producers reached a monetary settlement that allowed Byrd to claim […]
Nightmare in Badham County (1976)
This was a made-for-TV movie but was released in theaters internationally with extended footage and nudity. It was so popular in China that actress Deborah Raffin became the first Western actress to make a promotional tour of the country and became an unofficial ambassador helping China make deals with Hollywood. Raffin plays Cathy Phillips, who is […]
…And Then She Was Gone (1991)
Jack Bauer (Robert Urich) is a workaholic who gets involved in a case of child kidnapping when he returns a doll found in the subway. This ends up finding him get repeatedly abused, verbally and physically, and making you wonder why he even tried. Director David Greene also was behind Madame Sin; the movie adaption of Godspell; Rich […]
The Rape of Richard Beck (1985)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Herbert P. Caine is the pseudonym of a frustrated academic and genre movie fan in Pennsylvania. You can read his blog at https://imaginaryuniverseshpc.blogspot.com. The Rape of Richard Beck, also known as Deadly Justice, is a far more serious film than its exploitation-style title would lead one to assume. Far from the Death […]
STEP INTO THE BLACK AND WHITE DRIVE-IN ASYLUM DOUBLE FEATURE!
This week, it’s two black and white classics with Bill and special guest host Matt Hanke as they dig into two oldie but never moldy films! Up first, it’s The Killer Shrews which you can watch on Tubi. Now when Joel and the bots watched this movie, they made a drink with chocolate ice cream, Cap’n […]
Bad Witch (2021)
Xander (Chris Kozlowski in only his second role) is a witch whose use of black magic has never led to anything positive. He’s trying to go cold turkey on witchcraft, but when he helps a young man named Roland Grimm (Jackson Trent) needs his help with the pains of growing up, he decides to start […]
Sam & Mattie Make a Zombie Movie (2021)
Since they met at the Special Olympics, Sam Suchmann and Mattie Zufelt have been best friends. Mich like the readers of thsi site, they’re obsessed with movies and decided that it was time to make their own, filled with sex, violence and gore. And they totally succeeded. This is it pretty much the feel-good movie […]
The Ivory Ape (1980)
Rankin/Bass had some experience working with Japanese filmmakers after making King Kong Escapes, the Desi Arnaz Jr. feature Marco, Rudolph and Frosty’s Christmas in July, Willy McBean and His Magic Machine, The Bushido Blade (which has Mako, Sonny Chiba, James Earl Jones, Richard Boone and Laura Gemser all in the same movie), The Bermuda Depths and The Last Dinosaur there. […]
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