Day: November 19, 2022

MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Hands of Steel (1986)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sean Collier is a writer and movie critic. Listen to his podcast, The Number One Movie in America, on all major podcast apps. Follow him on Twitter for more reviews: @seancollierpgh It’s an Italian/American ’80s cyborgsploitation arm-wrestling action western. You know, just another one of those. After The Terminator hit, the overarching mode […]

MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Queen of Atlantis (1932)

After Jacques Feyder refused to make a sound version of his 1921 film L’Atlantide, G.W. Pabst stepped in to make three this, shot in English, French and German with three different casts yet always having Brigitte Helm (the robot from Metropolis) in the lead. Based on Pierre Benoit’s novel L’Atlantide, this movie has two French Foreign […]

MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Werewolf Woman (1976)

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was originally on the site on September 21, 2021. A section 3 video nasty, this movie was made by Rino Di Silvestro, who claimed that he wanted to make a serious werewolf movie. We should take the director of Deported Women of the SS Special Section at his word, I guess. Daniella Neseri (Annik […]

Smile (2022)

Smile is everything I hate about modern horror: a plot hijacked from the 90s obsession with Westernizing J-horror, CGI blood, herky jerky cameras, an overreliance on jump cuts, interstitial drone shots and so many sins against my personal cinematic rules. Sure, I love Jess Franco, Jean Rollin, Bruno Mattei, Joe D’Amato and direct to streaming Amityville […]

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