CANNON MONTH 2: License to Drive (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: License to Drive was not produced by Cannon and was theatrically distributed by 20th Century Fox in the U.S., but in the Netherland, it was distributed Cannon Releasing Corporation. I must like this movie, because I wrote an entirely new article about it despite writing about it back on June 12, 2021. Greg Beeman […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Red Scorpion (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Red Scorpion was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Scotia/Cannon in Germany. In the U.S., it was Shapiro-Glickenhaus Ent. who released it (after Warner backed out of their initial distribution negative pick-up deal with the Abramoff brothers). Thanks to The Punisher Book ’89 — check them out on Twitter — for […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Innocents (2021)
At a large Norwegian housing complex, a group of children begins to reveal their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren’t looking. By the time anyone knows what’s happening, it just may be too late to save anyone. Ben (Sam Ashraf) is bullied and ignored by his single mother, setting him down the path […]
The Day After Halloween (2022)
No, this has nothing to do with 1979’s The Day After Halloween. Every year, lifelong friends Addison (Danny Schluck, who wrote this) and Hayes (Brandon DeLany) have a Halloween party at the drive-in that Addison operates and then an after-party. It’s always a lot of fun. So how did this year’s party end with the corpse […]
Movers Ultimate (2022)
Written and directed by Ben Rood, this is the story of Ryan (Shawn Knox) and Chad (Andy J. Carlson), two movers who want to go to their ten-year high school reunion but have to get the job of moving Meredith (Annalese Poorman) and her three kids out of the way but it’s literally one of […]
CANNON MONTH: Heat (1986)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Heat was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Columbia-Cannon-Warner in the UK. Burt Reynold read Heat by William Goldman and supposedly got this film moving. The first director was supposed to be Robert Altman- — Carol Burnett encouraged him to work with Reynolds — who hated how commerical Goldman’s script was. He met […]
Samaritan (2022)
25 years ago, Samaritan and Nemesis — twin superhuman brothers whose parents died in a fire — fought to the death in Granite City. Today, graffiti of both of their logos can be seen all over, but if anything, the city has gotten worse. A gang leader named Cyrus (Pilou Asbæk) has found the weapon […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Patty Hearst (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Patty Hearst was not produced by Cannon but was theatrically distributed by Cannon France. Directed by Paul Schrader and written by Nicholas Kazan based on the book Every Secret Thing by Hearst with Alvin Moscow, this film tells how rich college student Hearst was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, how she became an […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Brain Damage (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This was on the site for the first time on May 27, 2020. Brain Damage was not produced by Cannon but was released to theaters by Scotia/Cannon. Beyond being a historian of exploitation films, Frank Henenlotter has made some outright insane movies like Frankenhooker and Basket Case. What other kind of mad genius would hire horror […]
CANNON MONTH 2: Malombra (1984)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Malombra was not produced by Cannon — shh, Roger Corman was the uncredited producer — but was theatrically distributed by Cannon Distributors (UK) Ltd. Directed by Bruno Gaburro (Ecco Homo, Scandal In the Family) and written by Piero Regnoli (Demonia, Burial Ground, Cry of a Prostitute), this is pure Italian sleaze with the venneer of art — […]
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