A series of strange murders has been happening in the small town of Potter’s Bluff. As the bodies pile up, the sheriff (James Farentino) wracks his brain trying to piece everything together. Maybe the town’s loony old mortician (Jack Albertson) knows what’s going on ( Read more... )

To avoid any confusion, I guess I should tell you straight away that Death Race 2050 is a remake/continuation of Roger Corman’s original Death Race 2000. It is not a sequel to the Paul W.S. Anderson remake, or the DTV sequels that were directed by Roel Reine. As with the original, the racers get points for running over pedestrians. There’s a ( Read more... )

Danny Glover sends Stephen Baldwin into the post-apocalyptic wasteland to get the goods on the new regime, ran by Rutger Hauer. When Hauer gets wind of this, he sends in a hit squad (led by Michael Madsen) to take Baldwin out. Baldwin is aided in his quest by a mutant (Neva Leoni), who may be a figment of his imagination. Naturally, Madsen fails ( Read more... )

Rats eat grain infused with steroids and grow to enormous size. After the health department orders the tainted grain burned, the rats scurry into the city to find a new food supply. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that they’re going to start eating people. A health department worker (Murder by Phone’s Sara Botsford) and a high ( Read more... )

George Kennedy is the captain of a luxury cruise ship with three days left till retirement. One night, a seemingly derelict ship rams the boat at full speed, sinking it in minutes. Kennedy, his first mate (Richard Crenna), and a handful of others are the only survivors. After some drifting, their lifeboat comes upon the ghost ship and they climb ( Read more... )

Hollywood has long held a fascination with Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday. Scores of movies have been made of their exploits. If you can’t already tell by the title, this one focuses more on Doc than Wyatt. It’s an interesting approach, but it ultimately doesn’t quite work ( Read more... )

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A member of The Skulls motorcycle gang kills someone in a hit and runs accident. He seeks refuge with gang leader John Cassavetes, who yearns for the good old days. At one time their gang was two hundred members strong. Now they are less than thirty. He decides the gang needs to find a small place they can call their own. They saunter into a ( Read more... )

Sallee Elyse stars as a woman who is gang-raped in a barn by several men wearing pantyhose on their head. After a time, she moves back into her house as her surgeon husband (played by porn star Harry Reems!) tries to convince her everything is okay. On her first night back, she thinks she sees a rapist in her mirror and faints. Reems calls for a ( Read more... )

Egotistical Dr. Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is involved in a serious car wreck that cripples the use of his hands. Unable to work with his withered hands, he undergoes every surgery in the book to correct them. When that fails, he goes to Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Ka-Katmandu where he seeks the help of the Ancient One (Tilda Swinton), who teaches ( Read more... )