Month: August 2020

FoJ Gamera977 suggests the following: "I'm not sure this is usable but it's the title character of Lien Ni-Chang or 'The Bride With White Hair' as played by the beautiful Brigitte Lin from the 1993 Hong Kong wuxia film of the same name. In the first film she's a sympathetic villainess. In the second she's…

Amazingly, all the other cheapies I've showcased this week had theatrical releases back in the day, many of them highly profitable ones. (Partly because the films were so cheaply made.) However, there was also the even cheaper direct to video slashers that were even grainier and somehow often even dumber. Take Fred Olen Ray's…

So....Madman. Uh, it's a slasher. Guy in the woods, he, uh, kills 'teens', and uh....   On YouTube.

Back in the day the first (and for many, many years the only) slasher film I'd seen was Humongous. It was playing at one of my friend's houses when our crowd was hanging out, so I kind of got stuck watching it. It did not endear to the breed, that's for sure. It was…

Again, this will never be my genre, but I have to admit I laughed at the tagline "It's not human...and it's got an axe." It's The Prey, and it's on YouTube.

So, does anyone here like slashers? Not my bag, obviously, as I've established a million times. Still, at this time it's a venerable sub-genre and I was wondering if anyone here did have a soft spot for them. Today's example is The Burning, which is now 40 (!) years old. It's largely remembered for…

"No, no! "In" the pants! "In" the pants!" I remember watching Ants on TV when it premiered in 1977, although I only remember it taking place in a lodge and that all the advertising played up the fact that it 'starred' a suddenly famous Suzanne Summers, much like the TV premiere of Logan's Run…

  Might was well keep the theme going with a bit of a minor classic. Yep, it's Kingdom of the Spiders with William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling and the great Woody Strode. Content Warning: Spiders are clearly killed in the movie, so avoid if you find that sort of thing alarming. Otherwise, it's pretty great.

Yesterday I suggested giving The Bees a watch. I thought another killer animal film would be good for a weekend double bill. So how about Beaks, with Christopher Atkins working that Blue Lagoon heat. You can find it on YouTube by searching under Beaks 1987. I tried to think of a pithy way to…