The Green Slime (1968)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: When Frederick Burdsall isn’t at work or watching movies while covered in cats, you can find Fred in the front seat of Knoebels’ Phoenix. Way back when in a faraway place I like to refer to as “The Sixties” (It existed kids, trust me) my local movie theater would frequently show a […]
Death Screams (1982)
David Nelson broke out of his family’s show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet in the movie The Big Circus, in which he was a disturbed man who may be a murderer. He also directed a few episodes of the aforementioned TV show, as well as its spinoff Ozzie’s Girl, the Linda Evans movie Childish Things (co-directed with her husband at […]
The Leech Woman (1960)
A few years before Mondo Cane would popularize the use of tribal footage, The Leech Woman takes scenes of African wildlife and tribal dances from the 1954 adventure movie Tanganyika to spice up its tale of a middle aged woman becoming young again by, well, becoming a leech woman. It starts off promising — a mysterious old […]
TUBI ORIGINALS: Swim (2021) and Shark Season (2020)
It was only a matter of time before the groovy retro-folks at Asylum poured the remote “slasher” cabin genre into the endless flood of CGI shark flicks. Now, for most streamers, that fact would be a “nuff said,” and they’d hit the big red streaming button on another film: not me. The director behind this […]
The Little Dragons (1979)
The Good: Regardless of their names not appearing on the respective theatrical one sheets, The Little Dragons — as far as I am concerned — stars Joe Spinell (Gazzo from Rocky, Count Zarth Arn from Starcrash, Spider in Sorcerer, Frank Zito from Maniac, and Vinny from The Last Horror Film and, going deep: CBS Schoolbreak […]
Round Trip to Heaven (1992)
“Shake it up, Shake it up, baby.”— Ric Ocasek of the Cars “Heaven Really Is That Hot, Huh?” — Courtesy of the Saban Entertainment copywriting department “Starring Zach Gallifan and Corey Feldman of Gremlins!” — Prism Entertainment’s copywriting hornswoggle Time to break out the B&S About Movies cocktail shaker! Let’s see what libations are on […]
The Unearthly (1957)
Dr. Charles Conway (John Carradine) is experimenting with artificial glands to make people live longer, working with Lobo (Tor Johnson) and his assistant Dr. Sharon Gilchrist (Marilyn Buferd, a former Miss California). Those that get these glands think they’re getting one surgery and get shuffled off for something else. One of those patients is Grace […]
Speed (1994)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jim LaMotta is one of Pittsburgh’s premiere wrestling announcers, as well as a great writer. This article originally appeared on Steel City Underground. You can follow Jim on Twitter. The write-ups I did for the site previously usually had a specific theme to them, and it was often a film I watched […]
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