Several tropes of late-’70s youth cinema converge in  Swim Team , a poorly made comedy about Southern Californian high-school kids navigatin...

Among the many criticisms fairly directed at   Mister Deathman , a modestly budgeted thriller filmed in South Africa, one cannot fault leadi...

Watching this lifeless low-budget drama about the misadventures of a small-time pool hustler will deepen your appreciation for the visual in...

The basic premise of low-budget exploitation flick  Inside Amy  is solid enough that if the picture had been written and directed with a mod...

Apparently  Honky Tonk Nights  represents an attempt by a group of pornographers to make a legit flick for the drive-in circuit, which goes ...

Calling   Elmer   a substandard example of the intrepid-dog genre requires giving the movie too much credit. Amateurish and dull, this early...

The first of three schlocky movies directed by minor Hollywood actor Chris Robinson, this swampy adventure has such a problematic central el...

I’ve long wondered why so many zero-budget filmmakers botch their attempts at creature features, given that the formula for these pictures i...

Mindless horror/thriller schlock that may or may not have slithered through theaters on its way to an ‘80s video release,  Blood Voyage  tel...

Watching a movie as muddled as   Lapin 360 , one can only marvel that anyone ever thought the piece would hold together. After all, it’s not...

All the elements were in place for  The Little Ark  to become at least a passable bit of children’s entertainment (and in fact online commen...

Although its storytelling is more coherent than the usual under-budgeted sludge made overseas by Americans of questionable ability,   Chines...

           Proving that ’70s Canadian producers were just as capable as anyone else of jamming multinational casts into mindless schlock,   ...

Imagine if Rudy Ray Moore possessed the charisma of a DMV clerk and didn’t tell jokes—then you’ve got an idea of what to expect from   Solom...

Here’s the yawn-inducing plot of no-budget/no-name horror dud Have a Nice Weekend —several people visiting a remote island in the Northeast ...

Only someone determined to consume every teen-sex comedy from the ’70s can muster a reason to endure   Cheering Section , which is as unfunn...

A dreary attempt at romantic farce that employs such hackneyed conceits as cartoonishly exaggerated class differences, wholly unconvincing f...

Any hopes that  Linda Lovelace for President  might realize the satirical possibilities of its title disappear the instant the movie starts,...

Is  Delirium  a conspiracy thriller disguished as a slasher flick? Or is it a provocative story about PTSD and vigilante justice rendered in...

If your taste in ’70s schlock renders you susceptible to low-budget oddities infused with paranormal nonsense, then two things are true: 1) ...