The Devils (1971)
Partly adapted from the 1952 non-fiction book The Devils of Loudun by Aldous Huxley, which was turned into the play The Devils by John Whiting, United Artists had already given up on this movie after seeing how controversial Ken Russell’s screenplay was. Warner Brothers then took over but its rough sexual and violent nature, not […]
Detroit Metal City (2008)
Soichi Negishi may be a shy young man who loves pop, but he’s found success as the demon known as Johannes Krauser II, lead singer of Detroit Metal City. He hides his anger over never getting further as a normal musician behind this character, but is slowly becoming Krauser. He’s in love with Yuri Aikawa, […]
Clash of the Titans (1981)
I saw this day one in the theater, all of nine years old, and ready to scream and yell and drive any adult near me insane with the sheer force of my absolute bliss at seeing a Ray Harryhausen movie in the theater and not on TV. Columbia Pictures, who had distributed so many of […]
REPOST: Threshold (2020)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We first shared this entertaining and innovative film on May 7. Now that Arrow Video is releasing it on blu ray, we’d like to remind you of it so that you don’t miss it. After years of no contact, a phone call reconnects Leo (Joey Millin) with his sister Virginia (Madison West). Their […]
They Live (1988)
Sure, They Live is a science fiction movie based on the 1963 short story “Eight O’Clock in the Morning” by Ray Nelson, but isn’t it really just another western by way of John Carpenter? Nada (Roddy Piper) is a man who Carpenter can work his hatred of the end of the Reagan era out with. So […]
Caligula (1979)
Caligula is a movie that several wanted to make their own, but only its producer could fully own. Scriptwriter Gore Vidal had intended to call it Gore Vidal’s Caligula, writing a script that had a strong focus on homosexuality and only one heterosexual scene. That one was between Caligula and his sister Drusilla. He was paid […]
Bordello of Blood (1996)
After Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis graduated from USC, they wanted to break into movies and decided that an exploitation film was the easiest way in. They pitched this script to John Milius, yet ended up debuting with 1941. When Tales from the Crypt — the TV series — started becoming a series of movies, instead […]
Bloodstone: Subspecies II (1993)
Didn’t Radu die in the first Subspecies? Well, yeah. But now his minions have simply reattached his head and taken the stake from out of his heart, allowing him to Hicks and Newt the hero of the first film, Stefan, killing him within moments of the film’s opening, sending heroine Michele to Bucharest with the titular […]
Billy Jack (1971)
You may have thought that Billy Jack was dead after The Born Losers, shot in the back while trying to do the right thing. The truth is, he was just getting started. An anti-authority film, this movie struggled to be made, with American International Pictures pulling out while it was being made. Then, 20th Century Fox […]
Canaan Land (2020)
Brother Billy (Richard Rossi, who also wrote, directed, produced, ran the camera, composed the music, edited and performed most of the songs for this movie) is a con man who has found his way into becoming a man of the Lord thanks to falling in love with Sister Sara (Rebecca Holden, who was April Curtis on Knight Rider and also appeared in Loverboy and The […]
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