CANNON MONTH 2: American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1991)
Directed by Cedric Sundstrom and written by James Booth — and produced by Ovidio G. Assonitis! — this movie sees Sean Davidson, the new American Ninja played by David Bradley, battling the ninja army of Colonel Scarf Mulgrew (also Booth, who had already written American Ninja 2: The Confrontation) and Shiekh Ali Maksood (Ron Smerczak), […]
Exclusive interview with Drew Godderis, director of L.A. AIDS Jabber
L.A. AIDS Jabber is one of the rarest and most sought-after bad taste movies of the shot on video era. It’s the story of Jeff, a mentally unstable young man diagnosed with AIDS who gets revenge on the world by injecting his blood into victims, giving them the same disease that he has. Visual Vengeance […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Midnight Ride (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This originally ran on the site on October 27, 2021. I mean, how could I not watch this movie? It’s got Michael Dudikoff, Mark Hamill and Robert Mitchum improbably together in a riff on The Hitcher or The Vanishing or any other number of hitchhiking maniacs on the road movies. Dudikoff is a cop who […]
CANNON MONTH 2: The Fourth War (1990)
Colonel Jack Knowles (Roy Scheider) is a tough soldier awarded for his bravery in Vietnam. Colonel Valachev (Jürgen Prochnow) is the same way, but on the other side of the West German-Czechoslovakia border. These two men are an asset at war but a liability in peacetime. They may just drag everyone into World War 3. […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Lambada vs. The Forbidden Dance (1990)
A dance from Brazil would become the battleground between the two Israeli film impressarios who were once the Go-Go Boys, the men who made Cannon the studio of the future for a very short present, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. The so-called forbidden dance was originally called Carimbó and was a loose and sensual dance […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Keaton’s Cop (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: For another take on this one, check this out. Directed by Robert Burge (he also made Vasectomy: A Delicate Matter) and written by Michael B. Druxman (who was an uncredited writer on She-Freak), this film creates a buddy cop dynamic — for a time — between Lee Majors as Mike Gable and Don Rickles as […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Rockula (1990)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was on the site originally on September 7, 2020. Luca Bercovici was behind The Ghoulies and The Granny as well as this movie, where a 400-year-old vampire named Ralph Lavie (Dean Cameron). He lives alone with his mother Phoebe (Toni Basil!) and is suffering from a curse. It turns out that every time he […]
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