As a child during the 1960s I spent many wonderful nights watching horror movies on the local Chiller Theater-type TV shows. I was an easy audience back then: if it had a monster or if someone was being chased or got melted or transformed in any way, I [...]
Set during World War Two, ’The Train’ features a great deal of action courtesy of Burt Lancaster. As usual the star chose to do all of his own stunts allowing director John Frankenheimer a degree of flexibility in filming that really makes this movie [...]
Can a film get any more obscure than this? I doubt it. Trimark Home Video’s release ’Hide And Seek’ is so obscure, you can’t even find an entry to the film in the Internet Movie Database. This is quite peculiar given the fact that Daryl Hannah, [...]
Sandwiched between the paranoia classic ’The Manchurian Candidate’ and the Faustian shocker ’Seconds, ’ John Frankenheimer’s gripping political thriller ’Seven Days In May’ debuts on DVD with a spiffy looking transfer and a thoroughly [...]
Credited as the impetus for the hit television show "Saturday Night Live, " "The Kentucky Fried Movie" is actually less of a movie than an assortment of irreverent skits and hilarious nonsense. It feels like an American version of [...]
"The Guns of Navarone" is widely hailed as one of the greatest adventure films of all time. And it’s no wonder, considering the wealth of talent that was involved in its production. Starring Gregory Peck, David Niven, and Anthony Quinn; [...]
’Felicia’s Journey’ is a passionate thriller located in England that tells the story of a serial killer in a very unique way. Played by Bob Hoskins, Joseph Hilditch is an eccentric chef whose path crosses with that of Felicia, a young woman on the [...]
Lately, it has seemed that I am a magnet for bizarre films from Europe. But, at least my latest offering isn’t as obscure as some of the other recent films. Many horror fans caught ’Possession’ on video when it was first released by Vestron in the [...]
When we think of genre films from Japan, we generally think of rubber monster suits, "Pokemon", or Anime. Well, apparently Godzilla, Pikachu, and Akira are all out of town, because Synapse Films is bringing us the darker side of Japanese film [...]
As we all know, genre-cycles come and go in Hollywood. In the early ’80s, there was an insurgence of mythical fantasy films, which came to be known as "sword & sorcery" movies. This trend was no doubt influenced by the popularity of the [...]
