Lance Henriksen’s first real screen role was in the drama It Ain’t Easy (a.k.a. WINNIPEG RUN) – and it was the movie’s lead role.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
…watching this movie
Apr 26
Lance Henriksen’s first real screen role was in the drama It Ain’t Easy (a.k.a. WINNIPEG RUN) – and it was the movie’s lead role.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Pasta suprema
Apr 17
In some ways, the very entertaining The Mercenary could be called the quintessential spaghetti western.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
While Pulse is a well-produced horror movie with a unique menace, it’s not always successful in delivering the essential goods.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
B-Fest Roundup, 2024
Mar 31
I didn’t quite get everything written that I wanted to, so there’ll be one last film from this year’s B-Fest reviewed in the next update, but I came pretty close:
Arcade (1993), in which you should always make sure the human brain tissue you’re harvesting to power the processor of your cutting-edge virtual reality game didn’t come from a child who was abused to death, lest the kid’s spirit reassert itself as Nintendo Power Freddy Krueger…
The Chilling (1989), in which a cryonics lab really ought to produce a higher class of zombies than these…
Hard Rock Zombies (1984), in which these zombies, on the other hand, are exactly the ones you’d expect to arise when a necromantic spell is cast over the graves of a slain cock-rock band…
Hot Potato (1975), in which we all deserved so much more from a sequel to Black Belt Jones…
Runaway (1984), in which the cops in charge of dealing with malfunctioning robots find themselves confronting droids that have been deliberately programmed for crime instead…
and…
She-Devils on Wheels (1968), in which Herschell Gordon Lewis can make a biker movie every bit as awful as his worst gore or soft-porn flicks.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
Haaaawwwwkkkk-ptu!
Mar 28
Jan-Michael Vincent and Chief Dan George battle an evil spirit in the Canadian horror film Shadow Of The Hawk, but the film has no spirit, if you get me.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
The legendary Bert I. Gordon made many beloved cult classics, but The Boy And The Pirates has been almost totally forgotten – for good reasons.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Overall, One-Armed Executioner is a competently done example of Filipino ’80s action cinema.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
Deserves an award
Feb 27
The interesting and entertaining biographical movie The Prize Winner Of Defiance, Ohio is the kind of drama the major Hollywood studios wouldn’t even think of taking a conservatively budgeted approach to almost twenty years later. A real shame.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.
With my first update of the year, I’m formalizing something that I’ve been doing semi-regularly for a while now by introducing Movies Whose Times Have Come. Henceforth, this banner will gather together all my reviews celebrating the completion of our latest circuit around the sun by examining some old sci-fi flick set during the one that’s beginning. 2024’s Movie Whose Time Has Come is…
A Boy and His Dog (1975), in which Don Johnson’s Johnson is pressed into service by the leaders of a post-apocalyptic Good Ol’ American Small Town where the resident young men are having trouble getting the womenfolk with child.
And as for the rest of the update, we’ve got:
Chinatown Kid (1977), in which a fresh-off-the-boat bumpkin gets drawn steadily toward the center of a sprawling gangland conflict, first in Hong Kong, and then in San Francisco’s Chinatown…
Godzilla: Minus One (2023), in which the King of the Monsters’ first visit to Tokyo is reimagined as occurring in the late 1940’s, when Japan was still almost totally supine from its defeat in World War II…
and…
Warlords of Atlantis (1978), in which a pair of explorers and the sailors who mutinied against them fall captive to the extraterrestrial rulers of the Lost Continent.
El Santo rules the wasteland-- and also 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.
I’ll be frank: While Lady Frankenstein looks nice, and has the sex and nudity Mary Shelley somehow forgot to put in her original novel, it doesn’t have her otherwise polished storytelling skills.Keith Bailey is the proprietor of The Unknown Movies Page.