“Detroit 9000″ (1973)
I first saw this movie in high school when I bought it on VHS and watched it with some buddies. Â Back then we had this thing about anything 70s. Â We weren’t obsessed or anything, it was more like we found the whole thing– the music, the clothes, the slang– hilarious. Â This movie definitely hit the [...]
“New Gladiators” (1984)
I’d been meaning to check this one out for a while, but with Netflix looking to dump it from Watch Instantly, I figured I’d better do it now before I miss my chance. New Gladiators (I guerrieri dell’anno 2072 for the purists) takes place in the late 21st century, in a time when two TV [...]
“Astron-6 Collection” (2011)
My sad, desperate love for Astron-6 knows no bounds, so it should come as no surprise that I love this amazing collection of their shorts. Heavily influenced by the VHS era of film, but often accompanied with a morbidly comedic twist, Astron-6′s unique style of humor is one of the best things to happen to [...]
“Dracula A.D.” (1972)
My main beef with George Lucas is the fact that he didn’t have more Christopher Lee in his three newer Star Wars films. Â The first one, for instance, should’ve just been the beginning, the Darth Maul fight, then an hour of Christopher Lee as Count Dooku fighting his evil werewolf sister. Â Am I wrong in [...]
“She-Devils on Wheels” (1968)
I was paging through the offerings on Netflix Watch Instantly, and came across She-Devils on Wheels. Â I was intrigued to see what Herschell Gordon Lewis could do with the biker genre, and when I saw how great the trailer was, I knew I had to give it a look. She-Devils on Wheels follows a gang [...]
“The Savage Seven” (1968)
A few months back I looked at a movie called Hell Ride for the Direct to Video Connoisseur, a biker flick from 2008 produced by Quentin Tarentino and directed by Larry Bishop. Â It didn’t work for me, and a big reason why was that it was too mired in its own plot, something I seldom [...]
Savage! (1973)
The late great Cirio H. Santiago is a director I’ve become very familiar with through his 80s and 90s Direct to Video action flicks starring people like Robert Patrick, Richard Norton, Don “The Dragon Wilson”, and Jerry Trimble, among others. Â But his career spanned much further, and I’d always wanted to check out his exploitation [...]
“The Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt” (2011)
After taking issue with a single aspect of “Gingerdead Man 3″, it’s as if the folks at Full Moon Features read my gripes and decided to slap me in the face with “Killer Eye: Halloween Haunt”. This isn’t so much as much like a sequel to “Killer Eye” as it is another Killer Eye story. [...]
“Red State” (2011)
When I heard the buzz surrounding Kevin Smith’s Red State, it sounded dubious.  Though I haven’t seen Cop Out, I thought Zack and Miri Make a Porno was overly sentimental, and, well, the less said about Jersey Girl the better.  Was this movie really going to be any better than those? Red State takes place in [...]
“Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence” (2011)
I was one of those left unimpressed by Tom Six’s first installment of the “Human Centipede” franchise. I just found it non-eventful and somewhat poorly acted. The concept was cool, but I couldn’t understand the hype. That said, I was intrigued by the second installment long before it came out. Six went on so much [...]
