HOLY SHIT! Born A Ninja/ Commando The Ninja Double Feature from Visual Vengeance!
This shot-on-video martial-arts double feature from Joesph Lai and IFD Films unleashes pure 1980s ninja chaos as two unlikely heroes are dragged into a war over stolen germ-warfare secrets. Featuring disappearing ninja assassins, endless waves of thugs, criminal masterminds, insane effects and the mysterious ‘Hocus Pocus’ magic fighting style – It’s full-tilt SOV insanity, delivering […]
The Screaming and Fungicide from Visual Vengeance!
The Screaming: College student Bob Martin rents a room from the alluring Crystal Traum, who introduces him to her New Age religion, Crystalnetics. Soon, Bob’s health and mindset dramatically improve. But when a detective reveals a string of mysterious deaths tied to the cult, Bob uncovers the chilling truth – and must face a slew […]
B & S About Movies podcast Episode 123: Bill Van Ryn defends The Bat People
Bill Van Ryn is the master of all things Groovy Doom and Drive-In Asylum. The Bat People is a movie that he loves and it’s so awesome to hear why it’s one of his obsessions. You can also get issues of Drive-In Asylum at the Groovy Doom Etsy store. You can listen to the show on Spotify. The […]
Paper Man (1971)
This made-for-TV movie aired on CBS’s Friday Night Movies and later had a short theatrical run. Director Walter Grauman may have only made six theatrical films, but he was a master of the TV movie, working on films like Daughter of the Mind, Crowhaven Farm, The Old Man Who Cried Wolf, The Memory of Eva Ryker and, most essentially, Are […]
The Strangers – Chapter 2 (2025)
The beauty of this new Strangers movie is that somehow, some way, it has made The Strangers: Prey At Night into a much better movie just by virtue of its existence. Just like The Strangers – Chapter 1, this was directed by Renny Harlin, written by Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, and shot in Slovakia. Does Renny […]
The Hang-Up (1969)
Directed and written by John Hayes (End of the World, Dream No Evil, Garden of the Dead, Grave of the Vampire, Jailbait Babysitter, and so many more; he also made adult films like Baby Rosemary, Hot Lunch and Pleasure Zone as Harold J. Perkins), The Hang-Up is all about vice cop Sgt. Robert Walsh (Tony Vorno), who the force uses as an undercover […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
Wes Craven’s second full-length film — if we don’t include the porn film The Fireworks Woman that he directed as Abe Snake — is a trip through the Nevada desert that he wrote, produced and directed. You can see it as straight-forward narrative or you can choose to see it as a parable on how man […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High School Girl (1974)
Cugini Carnali translates as First Cousins, but this movie was also titled The Visitor, Hot and Bothered, La Prima, Loving Cousins, and High School Girl. This is the story of Nico d’Altamura (Alredo Pea, who was also in two other commedia sexy all’italiana, the Dagmar Lassander-starring Classe Mista and the Edwige Fenech movie The School Teacher), who is a shy […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High Rolling (1977)
Directed by Igor Auzins and written by Forrest Redlich, who created the Australian soap opera E Street, High Rolling has Tex (Joseph Bottoms) and Alby (Grigor Taylor) leaving behind their carnival jobs to head to the Gold Coast. They soon meet a hitchhiker named Lynn (Judy Davis) and, along with two dancers, Barbie (Wendy Hughes) and Susie […]
WEIRD WEDNESDAY: High Crime (1973)
I have to speak with pride for my Italian filmmaking countrymen: they do not give a fuck. Any other movie these days that would put a child in danger would not do what director Enzo G. Castellari and writers Tito Carpi, Gianfranco Clerici, Vincenzo Mannino and Leonardo Martín do in this movie. When the question […]
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