There have been more than a fair number of superhero movies based on characters found in the pages of either DC or Marvel Comics, it’s basically a cottage industry now, yet once in a while a little superhero gem will wander onto the scene that’s a truly original piece of superhero fiction, one that will…
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Gestapo’s Last Orgy (1977) – Review
The sexploitation films of the 60s and late 70s were a hallmark of non-explicit sexual situations but contained lots of gratuitous nudity, which kind of set themselves apart from hardcore pornography that would populate adult movie theatres of the 1970s and 1980s, yet there was a subgenre of sexploitation called Nazisploitation, which consisted of films…
Death Ship (1980) – Review
“The Death Ship promises something for everyone, set a course for adventure, your mind on a new romance,” well, maybe Alvin Rakoff’s aquatic horror film is a little light on romance but it does have something for everyone. The “Haunted Ship” genre is quite old, dating back to such stories as The Flying Dutchman and…
The Devil’s Rock (2011) – Review
What is the true face of evil? When one looks back across history, it’s clear that mankind has had some rather spotty moments; the Mongols under Genghis Khan were genocidal murderers, the Spanish Inquisition tortured and murdered in the name of God, and American colonists wiped out entire colonies of Native Americans — just to…
Overlord (2018) – Review
Genre mash-ups can be a lot of fun, and when it’s horror with another genre, the results can be quite surprising – horror-comedy being one of the more prevalent of these – but one horror combo that doesn’t get a lot of love is the horror/war movie mash-up, which is why Overlord is such a…