An Offer You Can’t Refuse #18: The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (dir by Roger...
On February 14th, 1929, seven men were murdered in a garage in Chicago, Illinois. Five of the seven men were known to be associates of gangster George “Bugs” Moran. The other two men were considered...
View ArticleFilm Review: Corvette Summer (dir by Matthew Robbins)
The 1978 film, Corvette Summer, tells the story of Kenny Dantley (Mark Hamill). Kenny is a student at a high school in Southern California. He lives in a trailer park and he’s kind of dumb. He’s the...
View ArticleFour Rode Out (1970, directed by John Peyser)
In this self-conciously hip western, former Lolita Sue Lyon stars as Myra Polsen. Myra has a reputation for being the town tramp and, when her father discovers Myra in bed with wanted outlaw Frenando...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: Twilight Zone: The Movie (dir by John Landis, Steven...
1983’s Twilight Zone: The Movie is meant to be a tribute to the classic original anthology series. It features four “episodes” and two wrap-around segments, with Burgess Meredith providing opening and...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola,...
(As some of you may have noticed, I shared this movie last year as well. I figured I might as well post it again this year. Plus, it’s Boris Karloff, Jack Nicholson, and Dick Miller! Why not post it...
View ArticleThe TSL’s Horror Grindhouse: Chopping Mall (dir by Jim Wynorski)
This 1986 film tells the story of what happens when one local mall decides that it’s had enough of thievery and vandalism. First off, automatic locks and shutters are installed. What that means is...
View ArticleTales from the Crypt: Demon Knight (dir. by Ernest Dickerson)
I remember going to the movies for Demon Knight. I loved Tales from the Crypt on HBO, and the idea of a movie was cool at the time. My sister and my best friend joined me for the showing. It was treat...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: Piranha (1978, dir by Joe Dante)
At the height of the Vietnam War, the U.S. Government came up with a plan that could have changed the course of the war. What if the government developed gigantic, super-fast, occasionally jumpy...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Monte Hellman, Francis...
Can you follow the plot of the 1963 horror film, The Terror? If so, congratulations! You’ve accomplished something that even the people who made the film have admitted to being unable to do. The film...
View ArticleEvil Toons (1992, directed by Fred Olen Ray)
Evil Toons opens, disturbingly enough, with David Carradine hanging himself. Carradine is playing Gideon Fisk, the owner of both a run-down mansion and an ancient book that appears to be bound in...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola,...
Have you ever woken up and thought to yourself, “I’d love to see a movie where a youngish Jack Nicholson played a French soldier who, while searching for a mysterious woman, comes across a castle...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola,...
Have you ever woken up and thought to yourself, “I’d love to see a movie where a youngish Jack Nicholson played a French soldier who, while searching for a mysterious woman, comes across a castle...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: The Howling (dir by Joe Dante)
The 1981 film, The Howling, takes place at The Colony. The Colony is a lovely place, a nice resort out in the middle of the countryside. It’s a place that celebrity therapist George Waggener (Patrick...
View ArticleSmokey Bites The Dust (1981, directed by Charles B. Griffith)
Sheriff Hugh “Smokey” Turner (Walter Barnes) of Cyco County, Arkansas is determined to capture teenage car thief and prankster, Roscoe Wilton (Jimmy McNichol). Roscoe is determined to disrupt the high...
View ArticleRetro Television Review: Miami Vice 2.19 “The Fix”
Welcome to Retro Television Reviews, a feature where we review some of our favorite and least favorite shows of the past! On Mondays, I will be reviewing Miami Vice, which ran on NBC from 1984 to...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Little Shop of Horrors (dir by Roger Corman)
Hi! Welcome to Horrorthon! It’s a tradition around these parts that we offer up a classic (or not-so-classic) horror film for our readers to watch every day in October. As we have just lost the...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: It Conquered The World (dir by Roger Corman)
“Man is a feeling creature, and because of it, the greatest in the universe….” So says scientist Paul Nelson (Peter Graves) towards the end of 1956’s It Conquered The Universe. Paul may be a scientist...
View ArticleHorror on the Lens: The Terror (dir by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola,...
Have you ever woken up and thought to yourself, “I’d love to see a movie where a youngish Jack Nicholson played a French soldier who, while searching for a mysterious woman, comes across a castle...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes (dir by Roger Corman)
Eyes. They’re one of the most important parts of our body but they’re also frightening easy to damage. Unlike the heart or the liver or the brain, they don’t have a protective covering of skin and...
View ArticleHorror Film Review: Premature Burial (by Roger Corman)
Poor Guy Carrell (Ray Milland!) The character at the center of the 1962 Edgar Allan Poe adaptation, The Premature Burial, Guy spends his days terrified of being buried alive. Like his father before...
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