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 ones,…
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 about “the end of the world” have been around almost as long as cinema itself, evolving alongside the industry into a wide range of tones and styles. Broadly speaking, the genre splits into two dominant strands. On one side are the serious, introspective films, such as On the Beach, which focus on the emotional…