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Badass B-movies

Details: Created: 25 September 2019; Published: 25 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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By now, the majority of movie lovers agree that Charlie Chaplin was ONE of the great geniuses of the silent era. That wasn’t always the case, though, and it probably took The Circus to get everybody on board his brand of cinema. At the time that this movie was ...

Details: Created: 21 September 2019; Published: 21 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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She’s the horror hostess with the mostess. Guaranteed. But who is she? She was in a Bond film. She dated Elvis. At the age of 17, she was dancing in a gay bar. She’s been on the cover of a Tom Waits album. Hell, she’s sung in rock bands and worked with ...

Details: Created: 19 September 2019; Published: 19 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s all over, but the screaming. Even the British got in on the whole babysitter stalking trend. Wait. Back up. When was this film made? Oh hell, they helped bring it to the United States. The proof arrives in Scream Factory’s latest HD offering, Fright, starring Honor Blackman (Bond's ...

Details: Created: 14 September 2019; Published: 14 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Kill the head! Kill the head! Jim Jarmusch, the writer/director of Night on Earth, Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Broken Flowers, Only Lovers Left Alive, and Coffee and Cigarettes, has made a zombie movie. That sentence alone, if you are a fan of independent films just this side of quirk, should get your heart racing. No? ...

Details: Created: 07 September 2019; Published: 07 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Poor Samantha. It’s tough being a pizza delivery girl. With little funds and no tips, getting around on her motor scooter can be quite unbelievably tough . . . especially if you happen to be a positive soul who likes to see the good in ...

Details: Created: 04 September 2019; Published: 04 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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IT. HAS. ARRIVED. Fred Jones. Daphne Blake. Velma Dinkley. Shaggy Rogers. And a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. That’s right, kiddos, the Mystery Machine has pulled up in all-new (AND BOLD) colors! The details! The animation! And all the fun-loving, free-wheeling, sandwich-gobbling spirit ...

Details: Created: 31 August 2019; Published: 31 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Hell Comes to Frogtown and only "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Sam Hell can save the day. I don’t know whose idea it was – cinematographer/director Donald G. Jackson or writer/producer Randall Frakes or, hell, the B-film minded souls over at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures – but strapping a bomb onto Piper’s ...

Details: Created: 27 August 2019; Published: 27 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Dark. Intense. Edgy. Consistently bold. Endlessly imaginative. And, of late, experiencing a bit of a renaissance in popularity, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is now – on the eve of its 25th Anniversary – being celebrated with its own documentary. What We Leave Behind: Looking Back On Star Trek: Deep ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2019; Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Grab the wolfsbane! Get the garlic! Cult filmmaker William Beaudine takes aim and squeezes the B-movie trigger again! From The Ape Man to Voodoo Man, the director constantly drums up a lot of B-movie mayhem. Here, he ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2019; Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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In which Frankenstein gives us the two fingered salute! You’ll laugh! You’ll cry!! The Horror of Frankenstein and its bodybuilding monster will be why! Scientific twaddle has never been so supercilious than here in this Hammer flick from 1970 ...