The Food of the Gods is a strange film with a bona-fide B-movie pedigree. In the 1970s, there was a rash of “nature strikes back” films. These films typically featured nature exacting some sort of revenge against humanity for poisoning the planet. Others were just animals attacking people for noContinue Reading
If one simply buys into the action and suspends disbelief, the film does have some redeeming qualities. “These are dinosaurs. This is a prison. I think we’re a little out of our element,” says Pippi (Dana Melanie), who is having an unbelievable night. You see, she and two other girls,Continue Reading
Reporter Karen White (Dee Wallace) has been receiving phone calls from someone claiming to be a serial killer. She goes to meet him at an adult video store while wearing a wire for the local police. The meeting goes awry and the killer, named Eddie, is shot dead by police.Continue Reading
A worker at an archaeological site at the base of Mount Vesuvius uncovers the stone-encased body of a man. While the body is transported to the local museum, the truck carrying it crashes. Police Inspector Renaldi (Jan Arvan) discovers that the driver was murdered by a blow to the head.Continue Reading
In the golden age of video rental stores, your decision to rent or not rent a movie was usually based on its cover. Most of the horror films of the day were represented by gruesome violence and/or gratuitous sex. Rawhead Rex‘s cover was a hulking creature silhouetted against a whiteContinue Reading
Nearly 22 years to the day of the release of Jurassic Park, a third sequel has hit movie screens. Jurassic World, almost as much a reboot as it is a sequel, begins with Isla Nublar – the site of the previous three films – having finally been turned into a fully operationalContinue Reading
Released in Japan titled as Gojira, this 1984 entry into the Godzilla series has come to be known as The Return of Godzilla to avoid confusion with the original 1954 Gojira. (It was released in the United States in 1985 as Godzilla 1985 and was heavily re-edited.) Unfortunately, the uneditedContinue Reading