If you have seen just one cut-rate dystopian future movie, Absolon will not be the least bit original or surprising to you.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
If you have seen just one cut-rate dystopian future movie, Absolon will not be the least bit original or surprising to you.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Biggs mistake
Mar 6
If you have ever wondered how and why actor Jason Biggs has mostly slipped out of the Hollywood spotlight, well, efforts like Wedding Daze certainly didn’t help his career.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
It seems that director Fred Olen Ray reserved almost all of his time, budget, and resources for Cyclone towards rounding up an eclectic lineup of notable B movie actors, since there’s practically nothing else of interest in the movie.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
There’s enough good atmosphere, intriguing mystery, and creepy horror to be found in The Killing Hour (a.k.a. THE CLAIRVOYANT) to make it a real shame its distributor didn’t give it a decent theatrical release in its day.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
I started and abandoned a whole lot of sword-and-sorcery reviews back in 2020. This update gets me just about caught up on those. Also, although I’m taking a break from my kung fu movie studies here, I’m making up for it with a Hong Kong horror film:
Barbarian Queen (1985), in which Roger Corman, say what you want about him, was never under the misapprehension that women couldn’t headline an action movie…
Centipide Horror (1982), which isn’t quite a killer bug movie, but is instead about using bugs as delivery systems for black magic curses…
The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983), which is exactly the movie it sounds like, and yet not quite the one you’d expect once you learned that it was written by Claudio Fragasso and directed by Bruno Mattei…
Sorceress (1982), the developmental prototype for the Corman Conan Cash-In…
and…
The Throne of Fire (1983), in which the son of a wizard is the only thing standing between the Antichrist and a really nice chair
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
The so-called thriller A Lover’s Revenge is Canadian. And made for television. For the Lifetime Network. Though you can now guess its quality, please still read my review so my suffering for my art will be worth it.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
My next-to-last word on the Halloween franchise, alongside the next step in my kung fu education:
Half a Loaf of Kung Fu (1978), in which Jackie Chan’s first experiment in kung fu comedy goes over like a lead flying guillotine until the prospect of easy money changes its producer’s mind…
Halloween Kills (2021), in which a temporarily incapacitated Laurie Strode gets a little help from her neighbors in the fight against Michael Myers…
The Hunt (2010), which is not only a riff on The Most Dangerous Game that I never knew existed, but also one with a gimmick that I’ve never seen before…
Murder Weapon (1989), which calls itself an erotic thriller, but is really more of an erotic slasher movie…
and…
The Ship of Monsters (1960), in which smoking-hot space girls on an interplanetary mission to recruit breeding stock to replace their extinct menfolk enjoy a much warmer reception in Mexico than others of their sort received in Britain some years earlier.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
Short, but sweet
Jan 25
In just a little under twenty minutes, the short film Private manages to capture a lot of what made many of those film noir mystery movies from the 1940s and 1950s so compelling.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Curious Cannon comedy
Jan 15
An AIRPLANE!-styled comedy made by a dying Cannon Films might seem to have the smell of doom around it, but A Man Called Sarge is probably somewhat funnier than you may be expecting.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Cannon cover-up
Jan 5
Although the hero in Exterminator 2 wasn’t repeatedly covering his face because he was ashamed, I would certainly understand if that were the case.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.