V: The Final Battle
Kenneth Johnson‘s miniseries V was a boffo May Sweeps success for NBC back in ’83. His story of alien invaders was a smartly veiled allegory […]
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Mutant
Some zombie flicks are downright sneaky. Like in the case of Mutant (1984, 100 minutes, aka. Night Shadows), now that doesn’t SOUND like the title […]
Firestarter 2: Rekindled
In the vein of The Rage: Carrie 2 comes the Sci-Fi Channel "mini-series" Firestarter 2: Rekindled (2002, 168 minutes). Actually, the numeral was added by […]
Earth vs. The Spider
Stan Winston Studios, The Arkoffs and Cinemax partnered last fall for five FX-heavy remakes of the American International Pictures classics Teenage Caveman, The Day the […]
Arachnid
Our survey of post-Atomic age tales of king-sized critters run amok scurries onward with a disappointing effort by The Hidden auteur Jack Sholder and Re-Animator […]
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
The horror genre has readily embraced sequels since the heyday of Universal’s monsters, but now it appears ghoul moguls are resorting to cryogenics to keep […]
Playgirl Killer
CineSchlockers should be well versed in the work of Herschell Gordon Lewis by now. Among the Godfather of Gore’s many contributions to exploitation cinema was […]
Raptor
Didya like them Carnosaur movies? Well, you’ll LOVE this sucker. Why? Because producer Roger Corman just snipped ALL the dino chow-down scenes and cobbled them […]
Anna Kournikova: Basic Elements
Sure a lot of hefty gals who drank Tab with their bacon double-cheeseburgers helped push Jane Fonda‘s Complete Workout to the top of the charts […]
The Fury
Also see Tale O’ Premenstrual Mayhem De Palma builds on the success of Carrie by merging its supernatural twist with a spy-world thriller like Three […]