Aliens visiting Earth are rarely depicted as your typical friendly neighbours, for every E.T. the Extraterrestrial there are at least a dozen of the nasty Predators variety, but in 1955 we were treated to a group of aliens whose time on our Blue Planet was of a more complicated nature as it had a hidden…
Category: Reviews
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970) – Review
Filmmaker Russ Meyer is known for writing and directing a series of sexploitation films throughout the late 60s and into 1970s that utilized campy humour to satirize the status quo and pop culture of the time, which he did fairly well, but when one thinks of Russ Meyer it’s hard to correlate the fact that…
Velma: Season 1 (2023) – Review
With this series, HBO Max attempts to capture the adult edge that made their Harley Quinn series so popular but right out of the gate they had to deal with angry Scooby-Doo fans who were already pissed that HBO had cancelled the animated movie Scooby-Doo! Holiday Haunt, instead, they launched a new series that would…
Street Trash (1987) – Review
When it comes to bringing the best of cinematic body horror to the big screen look no further than master filmmaker David Cronenberg, the man behind the likes of Scanners, Videodrome and The Fly, unfortunately, the film we are looking at today was not directed by one of Canada’s greatest filmmakers, instead, by a great…
The Deadly Bees (1966) – Review
The killer bee subgenre of ecological horror films was kicked off in the 1970s with such films as Killer Bees and Savage Bees, but over in Great Britain, they got a jump on things with a film based on H.F. Heard’s 1941 novel “A Taste for Honey,” a story that took a Sherlockian approach to…