Australia, Australia, Australia, we love you. Whether it be films featuring crazy stunt folks like Deathcheaters, movies with lots of comical splatter and gore such as Body Melt, or post-apocalyptic road flicks involving homemade armored cars duking it out over a tank of juice such as Mad Max, the land down under never fails to … Continue reading Wyrmwood (2014)
That image makes this movie feel way more Slavic than it actually is. Robots in movies! We all love robots in movies. There's nothing quite like the near-constant whine of robotic joints and servos every single time one moves that makes us cringe and take icepicks to our ears. Seriously, whoever thought this was a … Continue reading Omega Doom (1996)
It is the future. Solar flares have led to environmental catastrophe. A once proud America is now a mixture of totalitarian states, gang territories, and warlord fiefdoms. With everyone scrounging for the scraps, who are the few good people left to rely on? A woman with a bare face runs through darkened streets and alleys, … Continue reading Karate Cop (1991)
As in this girl has special powers due to how she came to be, not that she's giving out presents or anything. Though admittedly, it would be kinda nice to get a present right now. I mean, who doesn't love free stuff? In the very near future, the world sucks. Athlete's Foot has basically evolved … Continue reading The Girl with All the Gifts (2016)
Yet another example of an awesome movie poster (if not also totally ridiculous) that doesn't actually represent what the movie is about in any way...well, outside of that costume. She really does wear that, except for whatever the weird armor shoulder pad and fur cape is. Also, there are no futuristic guns in this, folks … Continue reading Battle Queen 2020 (2001)
Women do, in fact, rule. Sometimes this movie is called Phoenix the Warrior. Either way, it's a post-apocalyptic film about dirty women in what amounts to fur bikinis and bondage gear getting into badly choreographed fights and gun battles over the only man alive. Because even in a world populated only by women, we still … Continue reading She-Wolves of the Wasteland (1988)
Another misleading movie poster. There's like one car in this movie, and it doesn't have a roof...or much of anything, really. But that one guy does shoot his gun over his forearm, so I suppose it's only half wrong. The Bronx Executioner is another Italian post-apocalyptic Mad Max/Escape from New York wannabe, only this time … Continue reading The Bronx Executioner (1989)
Escape from the Bronx is the sequel to 1990: The Bronx Warriors and once again stars Mark Gregory as a nearly mute gang member named Trash who struggles to make ends meet by selling ammunition to the cowering denizens of the Bronx while the General Construction Corporation's Disinfestor squads dress like Mercury-era astronauts and roam … Continue reading Escape from the Bronx (1983)
This is like a personal wet dream of a film. Marco Di Gregorio of the Thunder trilogy, Fred Williamson, and George Eastman all star in a movie that cribs heavily from The Warriors, Escape from New York, and the likes of The Exterminator and Mad Max 2, but manages to come across even hokier in … Continue reading 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
Imagine Alien: taut corridors, an overworked crew, a horrifying creature that uses ventilation shafts to quickly maneuver around a claustrophobic interior. There's fear there too, the fear that you'll be maimed, killed, or worse, bred. Now take that, set it on a post-apocalyptic Earth ravaged by a terrible plague, stuck down in a bunker with … Continue reading The Terror Within (1989)
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