When the film The Amityville Horror was released in 1979 it was, at the time, the most successful independent film ever released so a sequel following the continuation of the horror plaguing the Lutz family would seem to be a given, but that was not to be, what we got instead was a prequel based…
Author: Mike Brooks
Film grad who spends most his time trying to catch up on his "To Watch" pile of movies.
The Amityville Horror (1979) – Review
“The events of this movie are based on misleading information, when it’s not just outright bullshit, and is basically a cinematic hoax.” Sadly, this was not the disclaimer found at the start of American International Pictures’ The Amityville Horror, but it should have been, as this “based on true events” movie is more fiction than…
Grizzly II: Revenge (1983) – Review
When it comes to sequels the time between the original and the following chapter often varies, from a quick cash-grab release to an entry that comes out many years later to cash in on its nostalgic value, in the case of Grizzly, which was released in 1976 as a cash in on the Jaws craze,…
Monster from Green Hell (1957) – Review
When it comes to science fiction there is nothing more dangerous than space exploration, especially in the 1950s, but with the film Monster from Green Hell, we get a different wrinkle, one where the simple “planning” on going into space results in a terrifying encounter with a deadly menace, and this a threat not found…
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…