“This morning I shot my wife and child with a nail gun.” This line is from the film’s main protagonist and pretty much sets the tone for brothers Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner’s Australian zombie movie Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead. It is a dark film but with a deeply twisted sense of humor, which is…
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Extinction (2015) – Review
“It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine.” Those lyrics by R.E.M pretty much sum up one of the biggest genres currently flooding the media these days, the zombie apocalypse. From the early days of George Romero’s seminal classic Night of the Living Dead to AMC’s hit show The…
Raiders of the Sun (1992) – Review
With Raiders of the Sun we get producer/director Cirio H. Santiago’s most environmentally conscious film yet, and by that I mean 90% of the action in this movie is recycled from his previous films Wheels of Fire and Equalizer 2000. This is the ultimate in low-budget post-apocalyptic filmmaking. as it not only reuses footage but also…
Dune Warriors (1991) – Review
The 80s were over and most low budget film producers had moved away from Mad Max rip-offs to make ninja movies instead, but producer/director Cirio H. Santiago is not one to let a genre die easy. In this installment we have bandits of the wasteland harassing a small village who then get help from a…
5 Reasons the Oscars Suck Nowadays (that the Academy STILL hasn’t figured out yet)
What a year for movies, eh? At the time of writing we are midway through February, also known as that time of year where people don’t go to the movies, and if they do it’s only to catch up on what they missed over the Christmas season. Star Wars, the big event movie of the…