The bankable surname of of this obscure melodrama’s leading actor explains why he got above-the-title billing in his first movie,...

           As is true of most films with which Orson Welles was associated, this European adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1883 advent...

          Mostly of interest for Leonard Nimoy fans curious to see how the beloved actor handles one of his rare leading-man roles,  Assault...

          The last of three well-intentioned but hopelessly amateurish melodramas that writer/producer/director Horace Jackson made about th...

           Definitive production information on this one is hard to come by, but it appears   Madron   is an American/Israeli coproduction n...

          Generated by the short-lived company Tigon British Film Productions,   The Blood on Satan’s Claw   is something of a companion pie...

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

Hey there, groovy people! Checking in with a couple of fun updates . First, this blog has achieved yet another milestone that I could never ...

          Rarely will genre-picture viewers encounter a harder tonal shift than the transition occurring around the 23-minute mark of UK hor...

           Early cinematic explorations of the Vietnam War largely focused on military action, draft dodgers, or the emotional lives of retu...

          The building blocks of a passable draft-dodger melodrama can be found somewhere inside  Explosion , an American/Canadian productio...

          The draft-dodger drama  Outside In  starts off strong—first comes a tense border crossing during which Ollie Wilson (Darrel...

Greetings from the world of  Every ’70s Movie  with a brief housekeeping update. The lengthy title list that runs down the right side of t...

In the years before and after  Saturday Night Live ’s debut, a number of low-budget movies either anticipated or mimicked the show’s ...

          Easily one of the most famous unfinished movies in world-cinema history, Orson Welles’ elusive  The Other Side of the Wind ...

          Clumsily rendered and woefully deficient in terms of actual thrills, rural horror picture  Dark August  nonetheless has pri...

          Regional productions comprise a fascinating subsection of ’70s cinema, because these may well be the most truly independent...

Once again, salutations from the world beyond  Every ’70s Movie ! Although the pace of posts has greatly slowed in recent months, primarily...

          Offering a scandalous twist on the already-lurid genre of cross-generational love stories,  Glass Houses  imagines a scenar...

I will leave to someone else the task of determining which movie was the first to feature a plot about groups of teenagers competing ...

This low-budget shocker’s working title,  Nightmare at Blood Castle , suits the mysoginistic content better than the moniker used dur...

           Watching the political thriller   Embassy  is frustrating not just because the picture is mediocre, but also because it wo...

Set in Florida, this dull low-budget horror flick tracks Karl (Nick Kleinholz III), a twisted young man who lives with his older sist...