ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Lovers Lane (1999)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You know when you’ve seen too many slashers? When you review one twice. Here’s the original take on Lovers Lane. Based on the urban legend of The Hook, Lovers Lane was directed by Jon Steven Ward and written by Geof Miller and Rory Veal. It starts thirteen years ago with the origin of the hook […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The Assassination Bureau (1969)
Based on an unfinished novel by Jack London published posthumously — it was finished by Robert L. Fish — in 1963, this Basil Dearden-directed movie was written by Michael Relph and Wolf Mankowitz. Reporter and women’s rights champion Sonia Winter (Diana Rigg) doesn’t just want to expose the Assassination Bureau Limited, she wants to destroy […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Down and Dirty Duck (1974)
Charles Swenson worked on The Point and 200 Motels before this movie, which came into being once Fritz the Cat was such a success. It has the voices of former Turtles members Mark Volman (Flo) as Duck and Howard Kaylan (Eddie) as Willard Isenbaum, an insurance salesman whose brain is filled to overflowing with sexual fantasies. He’s sent out […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Tender Loving Care (1976)
Director and writer Don Edmonds (of course, you know him from Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS) made this shot in a week and a day film that may have been distributed by New World but has nothing to do with their nurse films. Actually, Corman released it through Filmgroup. This stars Donna Young (The Naughty Stewardesses), […]
NEW WORLD PICTURES MONTH: Gone In Sixty Seconds (1974)
H. B. Halicki directed, wrote, starred in, produced and even did his own stuntwork to make this movie come to life, even hiring friends and family to keep the budget low. The cops, firemen and paramedics were real ones from Carson, California, as was its mayor, Sak Yamamoto. All of the vehicles they use were […]
DEAF CROCODILE BLU RAY RELEASE: The Son of the Stars (1987)
Directed by Călin Cazan and Mircea Toia (who also made Delta Space Mission) this Romanian science fiction animated movie is at once several films you’ve seen before and then like nothing you’ve seen before. In the year 6470, two married explorers receive a distress signal from a female astronaut who went missing years before. Leaving their son […]
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