Barbarian Queen

Most barbarian flicks are ONLY as good as their damsels in distress, or if you’re REAL lucky, their damsels who INFLICT distress. This Argentina-lensed epic […]

A Thief in the Night

My first exposure to exploitation cinema was actually in CHURCH of all places and with THIS highly memorable flick. In the same way blaxploitation pictures […]

Sting of Death

Floridian filmmaker William Grefé was something of a fixture during that state’s exploitation boom in the ’60s. Like other successful exploiteers, Grefé was never wed […]

Death Curse of Tartu

Floridian filmmaker William Grefé was something of a fixture during that state’s exploitation boom in the ’60s. Like other successful exploiteers, Grefé was never wed […]

Ghosts of Mars

This movie is just plain awful. Not B-movie bad. Certifiably terrible. In fact, the only things that make Ghosts of Mars (2001, 98 minutes) tolerable […]

Humanoids From the Deep

Cats are fabled to have nine lives, but really, being a pooch is where it’s at. Especially out in Hollywood where dogs are dern near […]

Spiders

With the big-screen creature boom — Anaconda, Deep Blue Sea and Lake Placid — the B-rank-and-file have followed suit with a stampede of nature-run-amok flicks. […]

Python

About five years ago, a couple fellas out in Burbank started an independent outfit called U.F.O. as they reckoned there’s heaping piles of cash in […]

Hercules in New York

Long before Ah-nold first rumbled his trademark, "All be bah-k," he was almost assured of NEVER coming back — to the big screen. The herculean […]

Jeepers Creepers

In 1988, Victor Salva pleaded guilty and was convicted on five felony counts related to his videotaped sexual molestation of then-12-year-old Nathan Winters on the […]