Those familiar with “B” sci-fi cinema from the ’50s won’t find anything in Indestructible Man to be too surprising.
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Lots of unintended inter-film echoes in this one. Killers with gas masks. Deep South swamp monsters produced by genetic meddling. Characters named Tom and Sara. Nigh-unwatchable parodies. Point-missing adaptations. Movies that got the way they are because somebody figured they were too cheap not to be cheesy. Jerks played by Josh Gad. Intervals of 28 years…
Deathstalker II (1987), in which Jim Wynorski first becomes JIM WYNORSKI…
Don’t Go in the House (1979), in which I suppose we can’t really call him a slasher when his weapon of choice is an army-surplus flamethrower…
Doom (2005), in which you might just barely recognize an element or two from the source games if you squint hard and hit yourself on the head with a hammer…
Kids Go to the Woods… Kids Get Dead (2009), which I fully admit I brought on myself…
Little Monsters (2019), which must surely be the only romcom in which zombies eat children…
Mark of the Beast (2012), in which you might recognize the source story, but you won’t understand why they treated it this way…
My Bloody Valentine (2009), which manages to be one of the better horror remakes of the aughts mainly because that’s one of the easiest leagues around…
Razortooth (2009), which tries to get away with mutating Asian swamp eels into giant viperfish…
Terror in the Swamp (1984), which tries to get away with mutating a nutria into a killer Bigfoot…
and…
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026), in which teenaged maniacs cosplaying as Jimmy Saville make life difficult for an elderly man who just wants to listen to old Duran Duran records and shoot morphine with his giant, naked rage-zombie pal.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
How about that… Wounded is a Canadian movie funded by government film financer Telefilm that actually has action in it!Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
It’s like a zoo in here!
Feb 7
The best examples of Eurotrash filmmaking tend to have both nutty premises and outrageous executions, but Wild Beasts only has the former for the most part.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Superdud
Dec 10
While Superdad may be more watchable than the notorious “home movies” made by its star Bob Crane, that is in no way a recommendation.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Prize-winning action
Jun 4
Our British cousins show with The Tournament that they can make a low budget action movie winner.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Just passing through…
Dec 31
I’m still supposed to do this, right??
Anyhoo…very best wishes to all our B-Movie-ites for the New Year, and a sincere hope that you and yours are safe and well.
American-International Pictures continuing a story that originated from a major Hollywood studio certainly promised a drop in quality, and Futureworld shows just how it happened.“Pact” with horror goodness
Dec 16
You don’t need tens of millions of dollars – or even just one million dollars – to make a decent horror movie, and The Pact is proof of that.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
While Justin And The Knights Of Valour shows that Spain can make feature length computer animated movies, it also shows why perhaps they shouldn’t.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.