Interview with Eric Eichelberger of the Shock-A-Go-Go Film Festival
We spoke with Eric Eichelberger on February 13, 2021 about his upcoming film Exploit This! The Complete History of Exploitation Cinema in America. As he continues working on that film, he’s also behind the Shock-A-Go-Go Film Festival and we had the opportunity to find out what’s happening this year. B&S About Movies: How did you decide the movies […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13: Return of the Swamp Thing (1989)
I find it incredibly humorous that after Alan Moore, Stephen Bisette and John Totleben reinvented comic books with Saga of the Swamp Thing, director Jim Wynorski and writers Neil Cuthbert and Grant Morris were making this sequel to the original Swamp Thing and went nearly full camp. After her mother’s mysterious death, Abigail Arcane (Heather Locklear) has come […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13: The Day of the Triffids (1962)
As London was assaulted by the Blitz, writer John Wyndham was who witnessed the destruction of the city from the rooftops of Bloomsbury. Many of the scenes and incidents he saw, including a quiet Sunday morning after the bombs fell, were sent in letters to his long-term partner Grace Wilson and they are in his […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13: The Woman Eater (1958)
At the Explorers’ Club in London — yes, it’s all rich white dudes — Dr. Moran (George Coulouris) tells everyone that he’s going to the Amazon to get “a miracle-working JuJu that can bring the dead back to life.” While there, he watches Marpessa Dawn, a year removed from being in Black Orpheus — get eaten by […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13: The Ruins (2008)
Based on The Ruins by Scott Smith, who also wrote the screenplay and is not related to the director, Carter Smith. Jeff (Jonathan Tucker), Amy (Jena Malone) Eric (Shawn Ashmore) and Stacy (Laura Ramsey) are on vacation in Mexico when they meet Mathias (Joe Anderson) who last saw his brither Heinrich at a Mayan temple dig. […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13
It’s day thirteen of the B&S About Movies April Movie Thon and it’s time to get horny. April 13: (Evil) Plant Appreciation Day — It ain’t easy being green. Pay tribute to all the plants with a movie starring one of them. All April long, we’ll have thirty themes as writing prompts. If you’d like to […]
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