Horror and action movie reviews
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:19 — 37.4MB) | Embed
What a title! For that reason alone, it’s worth checking out Attack of the Giant Leeches. This is a Corman production, but not Roger. No, it’s the other Corman brother (from the same mother). And that’s Gene Corman. Rising from the depths of hell, to kill and conquer. And all because of NASA space launches […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 33:46 — 39.1MB) | Embed
Mexican Santa Claus as it’s known colloquially (sometimes known as Santa Claus vs. the Devil) is a wild and woolly 1959 Mexican fantasy Christmas sci-fi film directed by Rene Cardona and co-written with Adolfo Torres Portillo. The Cuban-born Cardona was a hugely influential figure in the so-called Golden Age of Mexican Cinema (but of course, fellows like us know him for […]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 31:21 — 36.3MB) | Embed
C.H.U.D. is a weird one. For reasons unexplained, the film’s left quite the pop culture legacy, referenced everywhere from Aqua Teen Hunger Force to Clerks II, and of course, in The Simpsons. Why is this? Hard to say…It’s possible because while the 50s was the height of the monster movie craze, the similarly-themed C.H.U.D. was a […]