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EDITOR’S NOTE: Salvage 1 was on the CBS Late Movie on June 15, 1984. Originally airing on January 20, 1979, the pilot called Salvage debuted to high ratings — and was brought to us by Harve Bennett, who previously gave us The Six Million Dollar Man. It was an intriguing start to a series. Harry Broderick (Andy Griffith) and […]
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Randy Victor Ian helps cover the Japanese roman porno beat for B&S About Movies. Horror meets roman porno in director Noboru Tanaka’s The Watcher in the Attic, an adaptation of a short story written by Edogawa Ranpo AKA Edogawa Rampo, often described as “the Edgar Allan Poe of Japan” as evidenced by […]
Super Cool. Super Quick. Super Deadly. Cooler Than Bond! Quicker Than Fly! Deadlier Than Shaft! His Lethal Body, A Masterpiece in Motion. Released in Hong Kong as Lie ri kuang feng and worldwide as The Stormy Sun, Super Man Chu is set in rural China during the post-imperial era of the 1910s and 1920s and […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Ruckus was on the CBS Late Movie on January 27, 1984 and January 3 and May 22, 1986. Ruckus arrives at the end of the 1970s, a time when The Dukes of Hazzard and Smokey and the Bandit led a redneck renaissance in pop culture. Kyle Hanson (Dirk Benedict, Body Slam) spent eight months as a […]
San Francisco mafia don Salvatore Francesco (Ivo Garrani) imports a massive, priceless jeweled crucifix from his hometown in Sicily as a gift for a local church. Unbeknownst to him, the hollow cross is stuffed with a fortune in pure heroin. When the shipment is violently intercepted and stolen, a furious feud erupts. And then the […]
When a noblewoman is framed for adultery and nearly executed by her treacherous, power-hungry brother-in-law, she escapes into the brutal mountain peaks to master a mystical Tibetan fighting art. Directed by Huang Feng and starring the incomparable Angela Mao, The Himalayan is a breathtaking 1976 Shaw-era Golden Harvest classic that blends stunning high-altitude vistas with […]
Following up on the cult success of the original México Bárbaro, this assembles nine Mexican directors to deliver a fresh, fast-paced anthology of folklore, revenge, witchcraft and pitch-black humor. Like any omnibus feature, it is an uneven ride of hits, misses and bold swings, but it remains an essential watch for extreme horror enthusiasts. La […]
Diego (Demián Salomón) is parked in the middle of a desolate expanse, laser-focused on a radio quiz show about his beloved Racing Club. His peaceful car-sitting session is abruptly ruined when a skydiver crashes onto his hood, a corpse drops from the clouds, and a heavily armed Interpol agent named Paula (Moro Anghileri) points a […]
If you love your creature features drenched in sweat and mud, director and writer James Nunn (Shark Bait) is back with Hungry. The film’s lore taps into a wild, forgotten piece of American history. In the script, the characters stumble upon an abandoned farm tied to the American Hippo Bill. In real life, conservationist Fritz […]
EDITOR’S NOTE: Modern Problems was on the CBS Late Movie on November 28, 1986. I keep watching these 1980s Chevy Chase movies and wondering why I loved them as a kid but hate them now. It’s probably because Chevy Chase became the person the characters he played fought against. Director and co-writer Ken Shapiro also directed Chase […]
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