ARROW UHD RELEASE: Children of the Corn (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally covered this movie all the way back on May 26, 2018. We’ve updated this article with some new material thanks to the inspiration we received from watching Arrow Video’s new UHD release. Want to learn even more? Check out our interview with star Courtney Gains! Children of the Corn started as a short story […]
Philippine War Week: The Expendables (1988)
Editor’s Note: Welcome to our final review for our first “Philippine War Week,” in which we reviewed 24 flicks. Yes, we said “first” because we’ll be back during the first week of December with 24 more. To populate a complete list of all of our reviews, click here. Cirio H. Santiago is kinda royalty around […]
DRIVE-IN ASYLUM SINGLE FEATURE SPECIAL:
We’re breaking from tradition this week when we join special guest Mike Justice this Saturday on the Groovy Doom Facebook page starting at 11 PM East Coast Time. You can watch this on YouTube. Unlike every week where we have two drinks to go with two movies, but seeing as we only have own movie, […]
Philippine War Week: Nam Angels (1988)
This is not Nam’s Angels. It’s Nam Angels. That one was made in 1970 and was also known as The Losers. This one in the late 80s in the Philippines. Lt. Vance Calhoun (Brad Johnson, who was a rodeo cowboy and former Marlboro Man who later was in Always, Flight of the Intruder and played Rayford Steele in the Left […]
Philippine War Week: Firehawk (1993)
Our beloved Cirio H. Santiago is back in the Vietnam-doubling Philippine jungles — along with the ubiquitous stock footage — in another Roger Corman-backed Rambo romp. And Cirio’s — always welcomed — stock company is back: Jim Moss, James Gregory Paolleli, and Vic Trevino. And yes . . . that is T.C Carson from Fox-TV’s […]
Philippine War Week: Kill Zone (1993)
Roger Corman producing a Cirio H. Santiago Philippines-ripoff of Rambo starring David Carradine? No, back up that half-track, soldier! In addition to Rambo, we’re getting an inversion of Brian De Palma’s Causalities of War. See? Roger Corman is never one to allow a major studio theatrical hit go to waste. The “Tony Dorsett” starring alongside […]
Queen of the Beach (2019)
While on vacation in Goa, India, Canadian filmmaker Chris McDonell turns his camera on Shilpa Poojar, a 9-year-old girl hustling tourists to buy clothes and jewelry from her seaside shop. The girl is a migrant worker from the unique Banjara tribe and the primary breadwinner for her family. Somehow, Chris feels a connection to her […]
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