The independent horror movie The Carrier is in several ways unlike any other horror movie you can think of. But ultimately it won’t be to everybody’s taste.
Archive for category New Reviews
Jumping in on the 1980s fad of showing Vietnam vets in a more heroic light, P.O.W. The Escape gives David Carradine the opportunity to show Rambo a thing or two.
Six years before filming the international box office smash The Gods Must Be Crazy, South African filmmaker Jamie Uys made Animals Are Beautiful People, a nature documentary that served as an interesting warm up for what was to follow.
The ABC network must have really loved the bionic man and woman series they aired in the 1970s, since years later they whipped up the television movie Running Delilah. It’s more or less the same idea, but nowhere as fun as it was before.
It’s a tasty confection
Feb 13
Although dessert is usually saved for last at the dinner table, The Chocolate War makes for a very satisfying cinematic meal.
…including my contributions to the “Yay! Our website works again!” roundtable:
Baffled! (1973), in which a perky and insistent occultist dragoons a psychic who doesn’t believe in psychics into investigating the weird goings-on at a sinister English manor house…
Castaway (1986), in which Oliver Reed isn’t Tom Hanks and Amanda Donohoe certainly isn’t a volleyball, but being stuck for a year on a desert island still sucks just as much, even when you deliberately set out to do so…
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013), in which you can just barely make out a few charred bits of wreckage that sort of resemble J. R. R. Tolkien’s story if you squint at them long enough…
The Man with a Cloak (1951), in which C. Auguste Dupin– who’s really Edgar Allan Poe in disguise– tries to aid a French revolutionary’s girlfriend in saving a cantankerous old man from murder at the hands of his own servants…
Phantasm II (1988), in which the kid from the first film grows up into a different actor, checks out of the mental hospital, and goes all Captain Ahab on the Tall Man’s ass…
Prisoners of the Lost Universe (1983), in which several irritating people are accidentally transported to a parallel Earth in the process of being conquered by John Saxon…
Revenge in the House of Usher (1983), in which Jesus Franco hides the plot outline of the Best Movie Ever ™ under a bad, boring horror flick…
and…
Strange Days (1995), in which I rather belatedly wish you all a happy new year.
I dug deep into film obscurity and came up with Pepper And His Wacky Taxi, and was subsequently reminded why some unknown movies are not only unknown, but should remain unknown.
It’s been a long, long time… but the B-Masters are finally back in our own website. Like most things brought back to life in the movies, we’re missing a few pieces here and there, but that’s no reason we can’t have our Colin Clive moment of triumph. IT’S ALIVE! ALIVE! IT’S ALIVE!!
And what better way to celebrate our resurrection than with a Roundtable — our first in a full year? This time our subject is (appropriately enough) movies about coming back from the dead. To start things off, here’s a review of one of the most infamous films about Those Who Return: Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980), a.k.a. Gates of Hell.
The movie Dark Night Of The Scarecrow manages to be surprisingly creepy and proves that made for television horror movies can be just as creepy as horror movies made for theatrical release.
The Cirio H. Santiago movie The Muthers is a women in prison slash modern day pirate movie. It sounds like fun, but it isn’t.