Category: Sizzlin’ Summer

BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Directed by Bert L. Dragin (Summer Camp Nightmare) and co-written by Dragin and Robert McDonnell, this is part of the Concorde/New Horizons time of Roger Corman. It’s a haunted house movie, home invasion, teen drama, street-violence epic, and slasher all at once. The Cates […]

BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! One of ten movies Roger Corman made in Argentina in the 80s, and one of the first for his new Concorde Pictures, this is another of Corman’s attempts to save the environment by recycling. Or recycling footage from Sorceress and Deathstalker. As writer Ed […]

BONUS! Watch a Roger Corman movie to celebrate his 100th birthday! Sooner or later, I had to watch this movie. Gage Dobson (Jaime McEnnan ) has some problems. He’s bullied every day by Ashton (Scott Ferguson) and Leon (Mike Simmrin), and when he gets home, he has to deal with his divorced mother, Cathy (Loni Anderson), […]

Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out At the end of the world, we will all have to be part of the high-stakes, white-knuckle world of aggressive corporate towing. Yes, it’s Driving Force, a bizarre sci-fi action hybrid directed by A.J. Prowse. […]

Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out God is Dead. Hell Still Exists. Well, that’s a great tagline and an even better poster. As for the movie, well…it tries. In the future, society is divided into a strict class structure with the […]

Week 14 (Sept. 20 – 26) – THE END! Post-Apocalyptic Cinema: Make sure to pull the ladder up on the way out Originally titled  John Travis: Solar Survivor, this was written and produced by Ronald L. Marchini, executive-produced by his wife, Jo Anne Marchini and directed by Paul Kyriazi (Death Machines, Ninja Busters). I was dreamin’ when […]

If you are going to dive headfirst into the sleazy, sun-dappled depths of Euro-exploitation, you need a maestro at the helm. Enter Joseph W. Sarno, the undisputed auteur of adult cinema who treated trashy premises like high art. With 1972’s Swedish Wildcats, Sarno takes us across the Atlantic for a film that’s part sleazy melodrama, […]