Tag: B

Basket Case

What critic Rex Reed howled in revulsion, filmmaker Frank Henenlotter wore as a bloody badge of honor. Rex ravaged Basket Case (1981, 91 minutes) as […]

Behind the Planet of the Apes

I’m absolutely rabid when it comes to the Planet of the Apes franchise. Plunk me down in front of the big screen and see me […]

Beast From Haunted Cave

Movies that suddenly yank on the emergency break and go speeding off in a completely different direction are rarely unremarkable. Psycho was this seedy little […]

Blood of Ghastly Horror

Also see The Films of Al AdamsonAlso see Secrets of B-Moviemaking OK, pay attention. This one’s tricky. In 1964, Adamson made a jewelry heist picture called Echo […]

Black Mama, White Mama

Several sweaty babes land in the Womens Rehabilitation Center of a far away tropical island of questionable political stability. The gal with the most attitude […]

Bullet in the Head

It’s a fact. Had anyone other than John Woo directed Mission: Impossible II, the summer blockbuster would have been 10, count ’em, 10 MINUTES long. […]

Bones

Elvis did it. So did Frank and Madonna. Singers aren’t often the best actors, but their public, and sometimes their egos, demand it. Rappers may […]

Bloody Murder

Horror films are pretty inbred. Someone finds something that works, and bang, you’ve got 98,326 variations on the theme. Just look at The Blair Witch […]