Samuel Fuller’s B crime drama The Naked Kiss is an underrated gem that teaches audiences a couple of valuable lessons re: Good Citizens and phones.
Cult Movies
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Featuring an unusual cast, the anti-bigotry melodrama Night of the Quarter Moon succeeds as a tabloid version of more serious-minded ‘race dramas.’
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‘Lurid’ is an understatement when describing Screaming Mimi, Anita Ekberg’s 1958 foray into the realm of American B noir. Philip Carey and Gypsy Rose Lee costar.
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Hollywood Horror House / Savage Intruder proves that Miriam Hopkins’ star charisma remained undiminished after more than four decades in the business.
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Made with schlocker fanatics in mind, the 1966 psychobabbling thriller Picture Mommy Dead is notable for its cast (Don Ameche, Zsa Zsa Gabor, etc.).
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The tale of a transgender woman out to castrate our male-dominated planet, Myra Breckinridge is an all-out mess. Raquel Welch and Mae West star.
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Who Killed Teddy Bear? movie review: Exuding charisma and sensuality, Sal Mineo is the best thing about Joseph Cates’ uneven yet intriguingly perverse psychological drama.
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Curtis Harrington, best known as the director of numerous stylized horror films, died on Sunday evening, May 6, at his Hollywood Hills home. Harrington had never fully recovered from a…
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Mexican wrestler vs. invading Martians: Santo el Enmascarado de Plata vs la invasión de los marcianos. Mexican Wrestler Santo vs. the Martians + Bhutanese fantasy-adventure & Helen Mirren: Rio Film…
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Gog 1954 (2001: A Space Odyssey precursor) director Herbert L. Strock + Brazilian producer of Cinema Novo classics The Guns and Ganga Zumba remembered.
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An experimental cult classic and a Glenn Ford star vehicle are among new DVDs featuring long-unseen titles with a little-known John Wayne connection.
Veteran Olivia de Havilland delivers a tour de force in the horror cult classic Lady in a Cage, which offers a side of scathing social commentary. James Caan costars.
Joan Crawford shows in Berserk that she could still command the action, seduce hunks half her age and look fabulous while parading around in fishnet leggings.
An Ed Wood film from 1971, the long-thought (partially) lost sexually explicit supernatural tale Necromania was an adult genre groundbreaker.
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