Flight to Hell (2003)

This is the fourth of Alvaro Passeri’s films I have seen. And so far it is the only one which disappointed me. Passeri was a veteran special effects expert from the Italian film industry who decided in the mid-Nineties to make his own movies.  The five he created were all made on ridiculously small budgets, […]

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Before I Hang (1940)

As I noted in my review of The Man with Nine Lives (1940), the late Thirties and early Forties were one of the busiest moments in Boris Karloff’s career, as he took on an impressive number of projects at different studios. And many of these were mad scientist films. Before I Hang was one of six […]

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The Lair (2022)

It’s good to see Neil Marshall back. Not that he exactly went away.  But he’s had a hard time lately making the sorts of films which he loves to make. He vanished from the silver screen after his 2010 film Centurion into the world of television, and finally is making a comeback of sorts.  His Hellboy […]

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.com for Murder (2002)

I suppose it was inevitable. Lately, I’ve reviewed quite a few Hacker films.  Most of these are, frankly, borderline science fiction at best, although it is often hard to figure out where the reality ends and the science fiction begins — or whether they have any solid connection to reality, no matter how believable they […]

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The Mummy Theme Park (2000)

Wow. This is one of the strangest and most eccentric films I’ve ever seen.  It boggles the mind with its sheer weirdness and its odd sense of style.  I know it doesn’t get a lot of love from critics or the audience reviews, but there is something about this film that is so unique, so […]

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Moonchild (1994)

Right. So this werewolf escapes from… Okay, okay, he isn’t a werewolf. This guy who turns into a wolf escapes from a prison somewhere in the future, so he can rescue his son from the clutches of the people who killed his wife, took away his son, and carried out all sorts of experiments on […]

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