When the FBI discovers the US is being flooded with counterfeit hundred dollar bills, their best analysts trace the funny money to Hong Kong. It’s time to call in a specialist agent to crack the case. As it turns out, Cindy (Cynthia Rothrock) went to school in HK, has plenty of contacts there, and can […]
Read more "Blonde Fury: Lady Reporter (1989)"Before the WNUF Halloween Special (2013), Call Girl of Cthulhu (2014), and What Happens Next Will Scare You (2020), writer/director Chris LaMartina helmed a few other flicks, including shorts and feature films. The 2010 slasher flick, President’s Day, has just found a new life thanks to the recent Blu-ray release via the Terror Vision label, […]
Read more "Helluva Craft: Witch’s Brew (2011)"To climb a mountain that leads to paradise, Dante Alighieri (Salvaore Papa) must first descend into the Inferno at its foot. When his way is blocked by three hideous beasts, the beatific Beatrice request pious poet Virgil (Arturo Pirovano) guide the still living mortal on his journey, and Virgil agrees, descending from Paradise just when […]
Read more "Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here: Dante’s Inferno (1911)"Five showgirls, their manager Lucas (Alfredo Rizzo), and driver Ferrenc (Leonardo Botta) are caught between a rock and a hard place—in this case, between a storm and a desire not to shell out cash for lodgings. At their last lodgings, they ditched the bill (though Lucas left a tip for the maid). So it seems […]
Read more "For the Price We Paid, He Could Have Told Us to Go to Hell: The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960)"The beautiful Belgian tourist Hilde (Susana Taber) is enjoying a private cover, swimming and sunbathing when a snorkeler in the rubber wetsuit comes along. At first, she is pleased to see him—does she know him, perhaps? Then, the knife appears. Passing boater Zachary Kendall (Ricardo Vázquez) stops off to help, but the murderer has gutted […]
Read more "Marina! It Is Time to Feed the Fish: The Fish with the Eyes of Gold (1974)"Oscar Bataille (Fernando Rey) is a French prosecutor who specializes in violent crimes, pleading punishments for murderers and fiends to the full extent of the law. He’s been a big proponent of the guillotine death penalty. Over his career, Bataille has killed dozens in this way, saving society from the burden of supporting monsters for […]
Read more "Not So Violent Blood Bath: Penalty of Death (1974)"In a thunderstorm rocked manor in Louisiana, Lord Archibald Marian (Ángel Menéndez) reads a quatrain from his favorite book, Revelation, and soon discovers that his fate is intertwined with the message. Earth to bury us, water to drown, wind to buffet, and fire to burn. It’s a recipe for disasters, which will be realized when […]
Read more "A Killer Inheritance: Night of the Skull (1974)"When a celestial event captivates the world, it leads to scientific curiosity as well as prognostications of doom and despair. However, it passes without much incident, as such events do, and the public interest moves along. However, it has left its influence upon the earthlings. Not on human beings, but on something much smaller. A […]
Read more "A Strange Incident in the Arizona Desert: Phase IV (1974)"When she was young, Cathy (Christine Moore) was terrified of imaginary monsters, which her pathological mother said would “get” her. These spectral beings waited in the stairwell or in the walls of her bedroom, emerging after dark to gaze upon her, to murmur or wail, to reach for her. Nightmarish situation, but not as much […]
Read more "You Shouldn’t Go Home Again: The Lurkers (1987)"Logan Burnhardt (Bill Moseley) is the king of airwaves, a crass shock jock who tells it like it is and is blessed with the number one radio show in the land. Tonight, his abilities are about to be tested. His ex-wife Lucy (Patricia Tallman) is the show producer, his pal Gil (David Moscow) plays the […]
Read more "Tonight’s Theme is … Paranoia: Dead Air (2009)"
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