Few films manage to blend the macabre and the ridiculous with such cheerful abandon as Roger Corman’s The Raven. A Technicolor romp through Gothic castles, candlelit laboratories, and magical duels, it’s part horror, part farce, and all campy charm. With Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff hamming it up in the best possible way,…
Tag: B-Movie
The Horror of Party Beach (1964) – Review
Some films are so bad they circle back around to being fun. Others are so bad they leave you with a headache and an existential crisis. The Horror of Party Beach is both; it’s a movie that wants to be a teen beach musical, a gore-soaked monster movie, and a public service announcement about nuclear…
House of the Dead (2003) – Review
Uwe Boll once described 2003’s House of the Dead as a prequel to the 1997 arcade game, which is already a sentence that should have triggered a wellness check. The original game barely had a plot beyond “shoot the zombies before they eat your face,” so naturally someone decided it needed lore. What we got…
The Lost Empire (1984) – Review
Written and directed by Jim Wynorski—who never met a B-movie trope he didn’t love— I bring you The Lost Empire a pure, unfiltered ’80s exploitation gold. It’s got ninjas, Amazons, evil cults, a gorilla, and more slow-motion cleavage shots than an entire season of Baywatch. What’s not to love about that?
The 10th Victim (1965) – Review
Pop-art satire, screwball romance, and a bra that doubles as a firearm, The 10th Victim is the kind of science fiction only the swinging ’60s could produce. A film that takes a gleefully cynical look at a future where legalized man-hunting is the ultimate sport and the ultimate advertising opportunity. What follows is a stylish,…