If cinema has taught us anything it’s that meteors are nothing but trouble, they either wipe out cities ala Deep Impact or they’ll bring nasty alien creatures like The Blob to eat the locals, and today we will be looking at writer/director Douglas McKeown’s The Deadly Spawn, a film that falls in that second category…
Phenomena (1985) – Review
What do you get when you mix a psychic teen’s ability to control insects with that of a serial killer stalking the students of an all-girls boarding school, a straight-razor-wielding chimp and Donald Pleasence? If you’ve come up with the answer “A Dario Argento film” then you are clearly a student of Italian Giallo and…
Spider Baby (1967) – Review
If ever there was a film more aptly subtitled “The Maddest Story Ever Told” than Jack Hill’s Spider Baby I’m not unaware of it, and to be sure, there are many crazy movies out there but with this entry, Jack Hill brought to the screen a collection of wonderful oddball characters in a story that…
Beginning of the End (1957) – Review
How will our world come to its inevitable end? Will it be from an asteroid similar to the one that killed the dinosaurs? Could a manmade plague wipe out all of humanity? Or will our end come from gigantic rampaging mutant locusts? In 1957 Republic Pictures and producer/director Bert I. Gordon would bring to fruition…
Jaws of Satan (1982) – Review
When it comes to horror films the “Nature Attacks” subgenre is rife with both good and bad examples, from Steven Spielberg’s blockbuster Jaws to Irwin Allen’s hilariously bad The Swarm, but in 1982 director Bob Claver helmed a little gem called Jaws of Satan, where druids and curses were brought into the mix to add…