A group of thieves carry out a daring jewel robbery, and go to meet their fence in a deserted factory. Unfortunately, they don’t realize that the gangster they’re dealing with plans to rob them. Or that the United States Army has been conducting some rather nasty off-the-books experiments in that old factory. Which, unfortunately, have […]
Read more "Junk: Shiryô-gari [Junk] (2000)"I’ve seen quite a few Chinese Science Fiction films lately, but most of them left me rather unsatisfied. So it seems a bit of a shock to find a beautiful, comedy about a man who is stranded on the moon and forced to find some way to survive there. Now, I’ll admit that most of […]
Read more "Du xing yue qiu [Moon Man] (2022)"It must have been a shock when audiences got their first look at the new Gamera movie that debuted in 1995. After all, it was far more serious than any of the films which came before it — even the first film, which presented the Towering Terrapin as a nearly unstoppable force causing terrible destruction […]
Read more "Gamera 2: Region shurai [Gamera 2: Attack of the Legion] (1996)"(aka, Piranha DD) You know how it goes. Someone out there recommends a film as a wild exploitation movie which is pure fun (this time around, I believe it was Mauler on one of his E.F.A.P. podcasts) and you actually go out and watch the thing. Let’s just say the results are…unpredictable. Now there are […]
Read more "Piranha 3DD (2012)"(aka Trip to the Moon) Everyone was going to the Moon in the Fifties. Even the Egyptians. Now I have to thank one of my favorite movie reviewers, Dave Sindelar, for introducing me to this movie. Since 2001, Dave has written short reviews of a remarkable assortment — over six thousand — different horror, fantasy […]
Read more "Rehla ilal kamar [Journey to the Moon] (1959)"One of the things that a lot of purists out there will not call science fiction are those works which are built around some big, all-important idea, with a world of sorts sort of thrown together around it. You can see the sort of thing I’m talking about in, say, The Hunger Games, although it […]
Read more "Dual (2022)"I’ll confess it. I like Frank Sudol’s weird little animated films a lot more than I should. I first encountered him in the anthology film, Monsterland (2016), to which he contributed a funny but gory animated short which went on a little too long. I then caught his feature film, Shock Invasion (2010), a gleefully black […]
Read more "City of Rott (2006)"A TV series from New Zealand was shown in the United States? And only two years after it ran back home? I suppose stranger things have happened. Of course, at the time, Nickleodeon was still in its earliest stages, and desperate for low priced children’s shows to present. One of their offerings was The Third […]
Read more "Under the Mountain (1981)"I’ll admit it, I like this one. But then, that may not be an entire surprise as by now you’ve probably noticed that I’m a sucker for a halfway decent B Monster movie. Oh, I know, it didn’t do that well at the theaters, and a lot of people don’t like it. There’s even a […]
Read more "DeepStar Six (1989)"I have never seen a Polonia Brothers film that recycled this much footage from another of their films. If you know who they are, then you realize this is no idle claim. They started out shooting their own homemade DIY Shot on Video films back in the late Eighties and early Nineties, became cult icons […]
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