EDITOR’S NOTE: 21st Century — pre-Menahem Golan — released this film originally known as The Biggest Battle on the Planet Video VHS label. Just look at this cast: Giuliano Gemma, Edwige Fenech, Ida Galli, Helmut Berger, Michele Soavi, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Evelyn Stewart, John Huston and Orson Welles as the narrator. Yes, […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: As I close out the second Cannon Month, I’m looking into the films released by 21st Century. That would include this video nasty, which was first on the site on October 25, 2018. Nightmare is one of the 72 films that violated the British Obscene Publications Act of 1959. In fact, its distributor was […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: I love this movie so much that I have a full-sized painting of Cathy’s face that lights up — thanks Mark Dockum — and it’s been on the site three times: once all the way back on October 24, 2017, another time when John S. Barry wrote about it on November 15, 2018 and […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: I love this movie so much. So much that I have a pull quote on the back of the Severin blu ray. 21st Century re-released this in 1980 and their poster says “a congressman lies rotting in the corpses of the jungle” which totally is to remind you of Jonestown, adding even more […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This was first on the site on May 28, 2022 and I almost did it myself for Cannon Month, but nobody knows Fred Olen Ray movies better than Jenn. Take a look at that catalog from 21st Century. What a year of pure wild cinema! ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: As I finish out Cannon month, I’m looking into the films of 21st Century before Menahem Golan took it over. Sugar Bowman (Phyllis Davis, who was Susan Lake in Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) has taken a deal to serve two years working on Dr. John’s (Angus Duncan) sugarcane plantation rather than be […]

EDITOR’S NOTES: 21st Century imported this Italian movie which you may know as Sexorcist, The Tormented, Devil Obsession, L’Ossessa, Enter the Devil or its post Rocky Horror title, The Eerie Midnight Horror Show. It’s one of my favorite movies — it’s also total junk in the best of ways — and I originally wrote about it on October 20, 2017. […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: Before Menahem Golan took over 21st Century in 1989, it had existed since the mid 70s, as Tom Ward and Art Schweitzer formed the company as a film production company and distributor. It also owned most of Dimension Pictures’ films when that company went into bankruptcy in 1981. 21st Century also released many […]

Roy Evans (Harrison Muller, She, Warrior of the Lost World, The Lonely Lady, 2020 Texas Gladiators, The Throne of Fire — that’s what we call a career) was homeless, but has been called out of retirement by his former commanding officer Dundee (Richard Roundtree!) after he saves a woman from getting assaulted. Now, he must hunt down the man that […]

Luise (Marianne Sägebrecht, who would be best known to American audiences for being in The War of the Roses and genre fans for being in Dust Devil; she’s one of Germany’s most famous actresses) runs a travel agency with her husband Matthias (Oliver Reed). When the couple goes on a tour of Kazakhstan and do better than […]