Cop movies can be a mixed bag. While the Hays Code forced us to always show law enforcement as the good guys, we immediately rebelled the instant we could. The 1960s and '70s were rife with both good and bad police, sometimes in the same person, with the likes of films such as Dirty Harry, … Continue reading Relentless (1989)
1980s America. What a fantastic place it was, where any white kid could get a gun and try to solve the world's problems. Red Dawn, Born American, Savage Streets...the kids end up highly armed and, well, often times dead. Wasn't it grand? Enter The Zero Boys. Steve, Larry, and Rip are a paintball team known … Continue reading The Zero Boys (1986)
Groundhog Day. We have a strange love affair with this movie. We compare other movies to it, such as Happy Death Day being Groundhog Day as a slasher, Edge of Tomorrow being Groundhog Day an alien invasion war movie, Boss Level as a pure action take on Groundhog Day, and so on. It isn't our … Continue reading The Endless (2017)
Sometimes a wrong number can change your life. God help you when it does. Harry Washello is a nerdy trombone player in a big band that travels around the US. While doing a stopover for a show in Los Angeles, California, he meets the woman of his dreams: Julie Peters, a somewhat nerdy, spunky, intelligent … Continue reading Miracle Mile (1988)
The title in this film comes from a line where a Japanese doctor says he cannot use a shotgun and will kill his enemies in "Japanese style," to which our overly-muscled hero with flowing locks replies while holding a pistol that he'll do his killing in "American style." Nice. Robert Z'Dar is a criminal named … Continue reading Killing American Style (1990)
This is the 1988 film with Linda Blair, not the 2009 Japanese torture-porn splatter flick, you sickos. Though admittedly this movie is so bizarre that a straight forward splatter flick would actually be rather refreshing. Linda Blair and her friend head up to the mountains to visit Blair's parents and to help her friend get … Continue reading Grotesque (1988)
Some movies ooze style over substance. This movie is practically gushing with it. It's the perfect representation of what was being done in 1970s horror: violent, shocking, twisted, nightmarish. It's also an incoherent mess, but that isn't exactly unusual for 1970s horror either. Lots of horror of this decade works more as a dreamscape, particularly … Continue reading Messiah of Evil (1973)
Yeah, we're talking a low budget 1950s indie film today. In short, it's our wheelhouse, baby! Livestock are being mutilated in a small town in the mountains of California. Unfortunately, a man has just been murdered, and the hard headed sheriff thinks geologist Wayne Brooks did the deed. Meanwhile archaeologist Dr. Frederick Cleveland has just … Continue reading Giant from the Unknown (1958)
You may be asking why I started with "Part II" of this saga. Well, that's because there is no saga. The Executioner, Part II is the only Executioner movie; there is no Part I. Yeah, it's gonna be one of those kinds of movie reviews. Los Angeles, 1980s. Crime runs rampant in the streets. The … Continue reading The Executioner, Part II (1984)
Actress Katt Shea lost a bet once, and her husband made her visit a strip club. Once she was there, she discovered that not only were the performers talented, they were both phenomenal dancers and artists putting on an erotic stage show, and she decided then and there that she was going to find a … Continue reading Stripped to Kill (1987)
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