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Tag: Roger Corman

The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) – Review

Posted on August 14, 2026August 11, 2026 by Mike Brooks

A dark castle perched above a raging sea, thunder splitting the skies, and a torture chamber buried deep in its stone heart—these are the trappings of Roger Corman’s The Pit and the Pendulum, a moody masterwork of Gothic terror so fevered it could only have sprung from the imagination of Edgar Allan Poe. With Vincent…

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Wizards of the Lost Kingdom (1985) – Review

Posted on June 2, 2026June 2, 2026 by Mike Brooks

Some films feel like they were carefully crafted. Others feel like they were assembled out of spare parts found behind a medieval-themed garage sale. Wizards of the Lost Kingdom proudly belongs to the second category, a scrappy, barely coherent artifact of the low-budget empire run by Roger Corman. It’s cheap, chaotic, and accidentally fascinating in…

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Queen of Blood (1966) – Review

Posted on March 17, 2026March 20, 2026 by Mike Brooks

Let’s say you’re a low-budget filmmaker in the mid-60s, you love weird horror, and you’ve just gotten your hands on some cool Soviet sci-fi footage, stuff that looks a hundred times more expensive than anything you can shoot in California. What do you do? If you’re Curtis Harrington, you spin that into Queen of Blood,…

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Forbidden World (1982) – Review

Posted on December 19, 2025December 19, 2025 by Mike Brooks

Welcome to the Forbidden World, where science is dangerous, aliens are juicy, and every woman is either a scientist, a seductress, or both, usually while standing next to a fog machine and covered in baby oil. This 1982 cult classic is what happens when you mix Alien, Barbarella, and a 13-year-old boy’s imagination, all under…

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Galaxy of Terror (1981) – Review

Posted on December 16, 2025December 16, 2025 by Mike Brooks

A doomed crew. A haunted planet. And the most awkward worm-related death scene in B-movie history. Step into a sci-fi nightmare where your fears kill you…not to mention your fashion sense as well. Brought to you by Roger Corman, intergalactic king of “What did I just watch?”

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