When people discuss the roots of the freakishly unnerving sub-genre known as Rural Horror, you can bet your bottom dollar that someone will undoubtedly yell
Tag: 1970s
Convoy (1978) – Review
If someone grabbed me while I was walking down the street and suddenly demanded to know the best and easiest way to describe Convoy, Sam
The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972) – Review
The Magnificent Seven, in many ways, is the perfect American western insofar that it takes its mythical (and borrowed) premise and infuses it with enough
The Warriors
Here’s a message for all you boppers out there… Walter Hill was a filmmaker that enjoyed toying with stories that concerned themselves with unabashed alpha
The Exorcist
Of all the horror movies that’s ever existed, surely William Friedkin’s legendary possession session, The Exorcist must be the most infamous motion picture of them
The Street Fighter’s Last Revenge
This information may horrify many of you who feel that foreign film absolutely have to watched in their native language while your eyes snap from
Return Of The Street Fighter
With 1974’s The Street Fighter we were introduced to one Terry Tsurugi (or Sugury, depending on which version you watch), an anti-hero that leaned so
The Street Fighter
The anti-hero is a magnificently cinematic concept that allows us to follow the exploits of people who freely go out and do the types of
The People That Time Forgot
As a young child, any kind of public holiday meant that the lunchtime airwaves would be alive with movies of varying genres and even more
Lone Wolf And Cub: White Heaven In Hell
After cranking out five films in a little under two years, the landscape that lay behind the scenes of the Lone Wolf And Cub series
Taxi Driver
If you’re talking about characters having their sanity stripped from them like some much peeling paint, then you have to start with Taxi Driver.Martin Scorsese’s
Four Flies On Grey Velvet
Dario Argento has been dubbed the master of horror more times than I’ve had hot dinners – and I’m not usually known for skipping too
The Driver
Walter Hill’s 1978 thriller is one of those movies that’s managed to affect popular culture without being that well known to the general public. Not
Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart In The Land Of Demons
After wisely taking a brief time-out after churning out the first three Lone Wolf And Cub movies in under a year, Kenji Misumi returned to
Beyond The Poseidon Adventure
You’d think that having a disparate group of survivors fight to escape the upside-down hellscape of an upturned ocean liner would be drama enough, but
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell
During their golden years, Hammer films released horror movies that contained everything from Werewolves, Gorgons, zombies and a shit load of Vampires of varying genders
The Land That Time Forgot
Back when Hammer Films were flexing their muscles with their substantial amount of horror releases and fantasy films, Amicus Productions were carving their own little
Dracula A.D. 1972
After six movies that followed a distinct rinse and repeat pattern of its fangy star rising from the dead, terrorising a handful of people and
Smokey And The Bandit
When pondering the nature of the redneck action comedy, there’s two titles that immediately spring to mind. One is the the infamous, Eastwood and an
Lone Wolf And Cub: Baby Cart To Hades
Much like the unbroken resolve of the unfeasibly stoic Lone Wolf (aka. ex executioner for the Shogunate and awesome/terrible parent Ogami Ittõ), the Lone Wolf
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