When watching a giallo, you  expect a certain amount of mystery, a good amount of murder, some blood letting and nudity (depending on the director), red herrings everywhere to throw the audience off the trail, and a killer that is not revealed until much later on..  When watching a giallo entitled Strip Nude For Your [...]

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The final film in the Blind Dead series sure left me shaking my head.  Night of the Seagulls has an awesome premise, a really nice set up, and you can tell a lot of love went into it.  But, it feels like Amando de Ossorio was tired of the series and felt that he wanted [...]

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With films there are surprises, and then there are surprises. With some films you get exactly what you think you’re going to get. In fact, after watching a trailer or two, one can usually gauge how much they’ll like a film pretty closely. Every once and a while, the gauging system fails and you either [...]

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Man, am I tired of crappy remakes. Apparently, Richard O’Brien is too. A remake of  the Rocky Horror Picture Show will be going into pre- production helmed by Sky Movies with MTV, Fox TV Studios, BermanBraun and Lou Adler, who exec produced the original. The movie will premiere exclusively in the UK before becoming available [...]

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Ennio Morricone is without a doubt one of the finest composers of the last fifty years and one of the most versatile the cinema has ever had. He defined the sound of the giallo and perhaps most memorably the Spaghetti Western. Ennio became world famous with his scores for Sergio Leone’s Dollars films but perhaps [...]

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Another day, another oddity from Japan. This time, it comes in the form of trashy, low-budget mayhem under the title The Girls Rebel Force of Competitive Swimmers. Well, at least that title wouldn’t have you think you were getting yourself into anything other than something off the wall. It’s how off the wall [...]

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Webs is quite an anomaly. I received the screener in the mail and the first thing I noticed was the massive “SciFi Essentials” plastered across the top of the DVD case. Anyone that watches the SciFi channel knows that they usually put out dull, lifeless films that are chalk full of horrible CGI and acting [...]

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I’d love to know what director, Roger Vadim, was thinking when he directed the 1968 cult-classic, Barbarella.  Were there drugs involved?  Was it made as a vehicle for his ‘then-lover’ Jane Fonda?  Were the comic books just as cheesy?  I watched Barbarella with no expectations, and lucky for me, every last one of them was [...]

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The Ghost Galleon is the third film in the Blind Dead series written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, and is different from the first two films in just about every way except the Blind Dead’s importance and some beautiful cinematography. Where Tombs of the Blind Dead was an exercise in tension and Return [...]

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The Lair of the White Worm is an incredibly hard film to classify. It covers just about every genre as it slithers to an incredibly tongue-in-cheek climax. I would place The Lair of the White Worm into the horror genre, because that seems to be the overlying theme, but that doesn’t mean there’s not [...]

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