Do you remember when the tree grabbed that kid out of his bedroom in Poltergeist? Or how about the poor girl getting raped by the forest in Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead? As genres go “The Killer Plant Movie” is a rather small subset of horror films – with a few notable films like Little Shop…
Tag: B-Movie
King Kong and Friends: A History of Giant Apes in Film
In 1925, the first giant monster rampaged across the silver screen, stunning audiences with amazing prehistoric creations. The film was Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, and it heralded a new age in cinema. Close on its heels was the 1933 classic King Kong, a film that still stands today as one of the best…
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971) – Review
The 70s were a time of terrible fashions as the public had to deal with the beginning of Disco and exploitation films that came and went at the local Drive-In with haunting regularity, but good or bad teenagers flocked to these films in droves.
Sorceress (1982) – Review
Fantasy films of today, with their epic scope and amazing visual effects, bear little resemblance to the Sword & Sorcery movies of the ’80s that I grew up with, still they were vastly entertaining and I will always have a soft spot for them, but today’s entry is one that I completely missed…until now.