Amazon Women On The Moon
A highly regarded filmmaker doesn’t necessarily make for a good sketch comedian. This is the lesson of John Landis’ omnibus film Amazon Women On The Moon (1987). The film is… Read more »
Tag: 1980s
Sorceress
Twin sisters Mira and Mara (Leigh and Lynette Harris) must stop their evil sorcerer father Traigon (Roberto Ballesteros) before he can summon the wicked god Caligara and an army of… Read more »
Silk
From low-budget movie maestro Cirio H. Santiago comes Silk (1986). Silk (Cec Verrell), a super “smooth” cop, is out to bust up a narcotics kingpin in Honolulu. In her wake… Read more »
Venom
Instead of appearing in Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981) Klaus Kinski chose to star in Venom (1981) which offered more money and, according to Kinski, a superior script. The… Read more »
Golden Temple Amazons
Golden Temple Amazons (1986) is a quick, low budget, European film meant to ride the wave of popularity surrounding the sword and sandal and jungle adventure sub genre boom of… Read more »
Xtro
Harry Bromley Davenport’s Xtro (1982) is a true tour de force. Davenport utilizes all of the most nightmarish aspects of the horror film to put into images the childhood trauma… Read more »
Choose Me
The difference between a screwball comedy by Howard Hawks or Peter Bogdanovich and Alan Rudolph’s Choose Me (1984) is the difference between serendipity and kismet. In Choose Me the coincidence… Read more »
Hundra
With Hundra (1983) B-Movie auteur Matt Cimber brought to the sword and sorcery genre the same quasi-feminist ideologies that he brought to the blaxploitation genre with his film Lady Cocoa… Read more »
Human Highway
Against the backdrop of imminent nuclear war with Russia, on a lonely stretch of road by a nuclear power plant there sits a quiet diner and gas station. In this… Read more »
The Seventh Curse
The Seventh Curse (1986) finds director Lam Ngai Kai true to form. The Seventh Curse is deliriously violent, amply gory, and packed to the gills with bizarre creature effects that… Read more »
