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Strigoi (Brexitland/Romania 2009)
Okay, this film was unexpected. The DVD was entitled Day of the Undead, a titular allusion to Day of the Dead (1985 / trailer) and/or Day of the Dead (2008 / trailer) if there ever was one, and was...
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Golden Destroyers (Hong Kong/Thailand, 1985)
Thai title: The Hunt for the Golden Man. Despite the rumors and what imdb says, the great Anita Mui (10 Oct 1963 – 30 Dec 2003), "the Madonna of the East", does not appear in this movie (as "Anita...
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B.o.Y. – The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Pt. 1: The Non-babe...
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer (21 Mar. 1922 – 18 Sept. 2004) Undoubtedly one of the Babest movies ever made, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was...
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Horror Express (Spain/Great Britain, 1972)
Spanish title: Pánico en el Transiberiano ("Panic on the Trans Siberian [Express]").This film was on regular rotation on almost every regional Creature Feature show in the 70s and 80s, which probably...
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Short Film: The Strzygoń & How to Deal with Him (Poland, 2019 [?])
Recently, while distracting ourselves from work by doing that typically cis-gender male thing of perusing porn on the internet, in a moment of serendipity we stumbled upon the typically semi-dead...
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Room 205 / Kollegiet (Denmark, 2007)
Room 205: a light little Danish horror film from the Dane director Martin Barnewitz, who went on to do the non-essential prequel, Messengers 2: The Scarecrow (2009 / trailer), to a mildly okay film,...
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B.o.Y. – The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part II: Jacqulin Cole
"Using unknowns you avoid highly exaggerated salaries and prima donnas."Russ Meyer Fifty-two years ago last month, on 17 June 1970, Russ Meyer's baroque masterpiece Beyond the Valley of the Dolls hit...
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The Deadly Thief (India, 1978)
Well, they sure tricked us on this one: when we picked up this one-dollar double feature DVD at Dollar Tree in Vegas over a decade ago, we thought we were getting some obscure thriller starring a...
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Short Film: In One Drag (Germany, 2016)
Here's a quick little film that puts a new spin on "the horrors of smoking". The three-minute stop-motion film is by Alireza Hashempour, made while the Tehran-born, freelance 2-D and stop-motion...
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One Way Trip (Switzerland, 2011)
Spoilers. Hmmm, don't think we've ever caught a Swiss horror movie before this one. We wish we could say it was an experience of note, but, nope: One Way Ticket is nothing to write home about. It isn't...
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Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm (Romania / USA, 1998)
Subspecies IV: Bloodstorm— the film is the fourth and for a long time final film of Full Moon's Subspecies franchise, and tangentially related to the one-shot Subspecies spin-off, The Vampire Journals...
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B.o.Y. – The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part III: Bebe Louie
To more or less repeat what we've already said at Part I (June 2022), The Non-babe of Note: Princess Livingston and Part II (July 2022), Background Babe of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Jacqulin...
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The Bat (USA, 1959)
(Meandering verbosity & spoilers ahead.) Arguably, Roland West's 1926 silent version of The Bat (full film— with the wrong music) is the [surviving] granddaddy of the old, dark house genre. Based...
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Short Film: Expose of the Nudist Racket (USA, 1938)
"Up until it was removed from the Internet Archives, and thus no longer embedded in our blog, Nightmare at Elm Manor (now accepted as a 1961 release), our Short Film of the Month for April 2014, a...
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Cecil B. Demented (Baltimore, 2000)
"Before I was a drug addict, I had so many different problems. Now I just have one — drugs! Gave my life a real focus." Lyle (Adrian Grenier) Trailer toCecil B. Demented:We here at a wasted life don't...
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B.o.Y. – The Women of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Part IV: Trina Parks
To more or less repeat what we've already said in Part I (June 2022), The non-babe of note:Princess Livingston,Part II (July 2022), Background Babe of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls: Jacqulin Cole,and...
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Black Dragons (USA, 1942)
(Spoilers!) The third of Bela Lugosi's infamous Monogram Nine,*Black Dragons followed the seventh East Side Kids film Spooks Run Wild (1941 / full film / trailer) and preceded that a wasted life fave,...
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Short Film: The Last Theft / Poslední Lup (Czechoslovakia, 1987)
Before you say anything about how "It's the Czech Republic", please note that in 1987, when this film was made, the Iron Curtain had not yet dropped and the two countries were still one country. Not...
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Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo (USA, 1977)
(Spoilers!) Needless to say, this movie has nothing in common with the indefinitely superior and far more entertaining science fiction classic, Tarantula! (1955 / trailer), a classic film that we here...
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Arahan (Korea, 2004)
"Many skilled people reach the state of master without knowing. There are countless masters today. They've just adjusted to a changing world, but most are Tao disciples who fight against evil c'hi....
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