On the South American penal colony known as Devil’s Island, it’s “every man for himself.” Unless you’re renowned artist Steve Duval (Hideous Sun Demon Robert Clarke), the newest arrival. The prison commandant (Niles Andrus) asks Steve to give art lessons to his headstrong adult daughter, Marlene (Dorothy Haney), seeing how’s she’s “a little stubborn.” Overhearing … Continue reading Terror of the Bloodhunters (1962)
All hu-mans, rejoice! Perhaps due to an error in calculation, someone has acquired the temerity to write an entire book about 1953’s Robot Monster, one of cinema’s legendary creative calamities. That someone is Anders Runestad, and that book is I Cannot, Yet I Must: The True Story of the Best Bad Monster Movie of All … Continue reading Guest List: Anders Runestad’s Top 5 Movies Tangentially Tied to Robot Monster
Rated G for gawd-awful, The Wild World of Batwoman! may represent the most shameless cash-grab in the cinematic history of coattail-riding. I’m tempted to think even Roger Corman, King of the B-Movie Clone, would shake his head at writer/director/producer Jerry Warren’s transparent attempt at turning America’s Bat-mania into holy simoleons. At the time of the … Continue reading The Wild World of Batwoman! (1966)
As vast and desolate as the Himalayas it depicts is Man Beast, an abominable turd. In her film debut, Asa Maynor (Conquest of the Planet of the Apes) plays Connie Hayward, a young woman who hires Steve Cameron (Tom Maruzzi, in his one and only acting credit) to lead her high up into the mountains … Continue reading Man Beast (1956)
With Curse of the Stone Hand, enterprising producer Jerry Warren (The Wild World of Batwoman) whipped up something special for moviegoers: a big, steaming bowl of Chile. That is, he butchered a couple of existing Chilean films from the 1940s and ’50s to create a patchwork horror anthology barely over an hour. Because mere spit … Continue reading Curse of the Stone Hand (1964)