The late 70s certainly brought to cinemas a dearth of “eco-horror” movies because if it wasn’t ants ruining your picnic then it was our eight-legged friends crashing the party, and not only did 1977 witness the horrors of The Kingdom of the Spiders, starring the great William Shatner it also bore witness to a made-for-television…
Tag: Jaws
Orca (1977) – Review
With the success of Steven Spielberg’s Summer Blockbuster Jaws, many a film producer scrambled to cash in on that hit with various rip-offs and famed Italian filmmaker Dino De Laurentiis wasn’t going to miss his shot at this burgeoning subgenre, so he turned to his producer friend Luciano Vincenzoni and requested that he “Find a…
Moonraker (1979) – Review
When one thinks of the world’s most famous secret agent, James Bond, the phrase “In Space” does not readily leap to mind, but after a little film called Star Wars broke box offices records around the world, producer Cubby Broccoli and the people at United Artists were among many who scrambled to take some of…
Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020) – Review
In 1998, director Renny Harlin helmed a fun little shark movie called Deep Blue Sea, where we learned from Ice Cube that his “hat is like a shark’s fin,” but then two decades later, we got the straight-to-video sequel Deep Blue Sea 2, which showed us that maybe a sequel about his hat would have…
Razorback (1984) – Review
When Spielberg’s monster hit Jaws arrived in theatres in the summer of ’75, the onslaught of rip-offs to follow was staggering, with such notable entries as 1977’s Orca,1978’s Piranha, and 1984’s The Last Shark, but such rip-offs were not relegated to creatures of the sea, and thus we got such “classics” as 1976’s Grizzly and the…