Director Cirio H. Santiago is one of the kings of low budget filmmaking, who was the Philippines answer to Roger Corman, and the one genre he was quite a fan of was the post-apocalyptic film – aka the Mad Max rip-offs – but one particular venture into the genre varied greatly from all his other…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
Wheels of Fire (1985) – Review
Wheels of Fire is producer/director’s Cirio H. Santiago’s follow up to his Mad Max rip-off Stryker, it isn’t a sequel to that film, just another post-apocalyptic wasteland movie, only this time out water no longer seems a major concern, as this entry is more about simply maintaining power, whether that be from controlling the populace…
Tarzan: Rules of Engagement (2003) – Review
One thing has become clear by the fourth episode of this show, and that would be that this is not really much of a Tarzan series – despite what the title of the show would suggest – for one he is referred to as John Clayton, and not his jungle name of Tarzan, and he…
Stryker (1983) – Review
Since George Miller unleashed Mad Max: Fury Road into cinemas last year I’ve been waiting for one thing, the inevitable rip-offs, for when Miller gave us Mad Max and Mad Max II (aka The Road Warrior) back in the late 70s and early 80s we were inundated with countless post-apocalyptic Mad Max rip-offs, but we…
Road Warrior Rip-Offs: Guns, Babes and Dwarves in a World Gone Mad.
Movies dealing with “The End of the World” belong to one of longest-running film genres, almost from the beginning of the industry, but the two most common subgenres of this would be the serious take, such as film like On The Beach which tackle how people emotionally deal with the knowledge that most of the…