Early 70's no-budget drudgery directed by Harry Essex, writer of the sci-fi classics Creature From The Black Lagoon and It Came From Outer Space. Basically, there's a big giant sun creature, who's rolling around the back country of California stalking people who have little rocks that are pieces of the the sun creature's kids. The characters are ( Read more... )

Pretty awful Italian-Spanish co-production, with few recognizable names in the cast (Arthur Kennedy and Janet Algren were the only ones I recognized). Featured a then-trendy Bermuda Triangle-themed plot about two divers attempting to rescue a box of treasure from a shark-infested corner of the Triangle and getting involved with gangsters and ( Read more... )

Not too much to say about this one either, other than it's pretty fun, and goofy, and stars Danny Lee of The Killer as the guy who becomes Infra-Man. This is basically a combination of a Hong Kong martial arts movie and a Japanese tokusatsu film (the type of thing that the Power Rangers were ( Read more... )

Irwin Allen strikes again with this companion piece to the aformentioned Flood!. Directed by the same director and using the same score as Flood, this Allen disaster imperils a new group of TV actors ( Read more... )

Irwin Allen slips from the theaters to made-for-TV disaster with this fine little piece of shlock, made in 1976 and backed with the equally schlocky Fire!, which would air a few weeks later ( Read more... )

You know, I've watched a lot of terrible movies over the years. Some have been entertainingly bad, some have been sort of good, but it's pretty rare than I've watched anything that was truly, truly awful ( Read more... )

So, if you know me, you probably know how big a Frank Zappa fan I am. As the first movie I've actually seen before in the 365, 200 Motels is a particular favorite, although I've gotten less enamored of it as time has gone on. (This is actually the case for Baby Snakes as well, and I'll explain a bit of why below.) This time, the source is a rip ( Read more... )

Hands of Blood is an odd little 70's Texas indie. Written and directed by one Perry Tong, it's the weird, not all there, vaguely sleazy story of Norma, a Texas housewife married to Thorpe, who is an alcoholic farmer/pilot. Thorpe is possibly looking to sell off the farm without telling Norma, who he thinks is having an affair when he drinks. ( Read more... )

What can I say about Dario Argento? I've always been of two minds about his work. On the one hand, he is one of the most visually striking auteurs out there. On the other hand, his movies often make little to no sense. Argento's best work was all done prior to the advent of DVD, when his films often came to the US in badly cut and dubbed ( Read more... )

Today, we talk about crap ( Read more... )