Year: 2020

Hmm, reminds me of something.... Appearing on Amazon Prime under the title Reigo King of the Sea Monsters (!!!--uh, Godzilla is a sea monster, moron), the film isn't great, but hey we're all completists and if you have Amazon Prime it's sitting right there, so there you go.  

Amazon Prime right now has an eye-poppingly good transfer of Caltiki the Immortal Monster right now. I think it's sourced from the Arrow Video Blu Ray, which has a ton of extras, including a commentary by lead Bava scholar Tim Lucas  (and a second, DVD copy) if you like the movie enough to invest…

Few films are as consistently wacky as Super Infra-Man (available on Amazon Prime), but one of them is Latitude Zero. It maybe drags a bit at time, but man, it is nutty. Also available on Prime.

There was a period when I was looking around at all my thousands of DVDs (and smattering of Blu Rays) and would think, "Man, if I had known streaming was coming, I could have saved a lot of money." But again I am brought face to face with the fact that stuff on streaming…

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…