Banning (Peter Cushing) is an archeologist exploring the Egyptian tomb of Princess Ananka. When her protector, Kharis the mummy (Christopher Lee) is resurrected, Banning’s father goes mad. Years later, Kharis returns to wipe out the remaining members of the expedition. Kharis tries to kill Banning, but since his wife (Yvonne Furneaux) is the ( Read more... )

A mummy is recovered from King Tut’s tomb and sent to a college for study. It’s covered in a flesh-eating fungus and whoever touches it receives a nasty burn. One of the bozo students raids some jewels out of the mummy’s stash and sells them off to his fraternity brothers who give them to their girlfriends as gifts. When the mummy is revived by ( Read more... )

I have a five-year-old daughter who is in love with monsters. I showed her Mad Monster Party about two weeks ago and I bet there have only been one or two days where she hasn’t watched it. When she saw the previews for Goosebumps, she demanded to see it. As a father, I’d do just about anything to keep my daughter’s interest in monster movies ( Read more... )

THE MUMMY (1999) *** ½

Stephen Sommers remade The Mummy into more of a special effects-laden Indiana Jones-style adventure than an out-and-out horror movie. When it first came out many people griped about this, but being a fan of Sommers’ Deep Rising, I approached it with an open mind. Because of that, I found myself enjoying it more than ( Read more... )

She is the kind of movie I love. It takes an unusual mishmash of genres and elements from other movies and smooshes them all together. The post-nuke action movie genre was all the rage in the early ‘80s. The sword and sandal genre was equally huge at the time. Naturally, why choose between making a post-nuke movie and a sword and sandal movie ( Read more... )

THE TOMB (1986) ** ½

You know, I never pre-screen any of the films when I do these Palooza write-ups, so I never quite know what lies in store for me. When I choose the movies for one of these deals, I just go by whether or not the main actor or actress is in the flick. Unfortunately, nearly all of the Sybil Danning films I’ve watched this ( Read more... )

Ever since I rented Heathers for the first time as a teenager, Christian Slater has been my boy. Throughout the years, Slater has starred in some classics like Pump Up the Volume, True Romance, and 3000 Miles to Graceland. Recently, he’s been carving out a nice niche for himself in the DTV market, while still finding time to star in TV shows ( ( Read more... )

After watching El Santo movies for an entire month, I figured I’d devote one whole post to his trusty sidekick, Blue Demon ( Read more... )

THE VENGEANCE OF THE VAMPIRE WOMEN (1970) ** ½

A mad scientist digs up the body of a vampire queen and needs “Sangre Fresca” (that’s “Fresh Blood” to you and me) to revive her. The best place to get that is straight from the tap; i.e. a sexy go-go dancer’s neck. Once the vampire queen regains her good looks, she asks for the doctor’s help in ( Read more... )

After two American dubbed “Samson” movies, we return to the usual Spanish language, English subtitle-less El Santo films ( Read more... )