Original title: Zhong guo chao ren Some films are so stupid, so maddeningly illogical that the attain a sort of greatness. Step forward Hong Kong superhero epic, The Super Inframan, a rare venture into science fiction by Shaw Brothers. With tongue embedded firmly in cheek, it mimics the look and feel of the Japanese kaiji … Continue reading
Perhaps the best known of the many Jaws (1975) rip-offs, Orca was directed by Michael Anderson and produced by Dino De Laurentiis who, in the 1970s, was busying himself with a project to make some of the worst big-budget blockbusters of the decade. Orca opts for the unusual but not well developed idea of being … Continue reading
Paul W.S. Anderson had, in the late 1990s, been making a name for himself in Hollywood following his debut film Shopping (1994) but his career was about to hit a considerable bump in the road. Computer game adaptation Mortal Kombat (1995) had been a huge hit but the British/American co-production Event Horizon (1997) failed to … Continue reading
Original title: Último deseo This science fiction/horror hybrid from director Leon Klimovsky features Paul Naschy in a supporting role and was something of a change of pace for the Spanish genre star who as taking a break from his series of Gothic horror films, some of which (La noche de Walpurgis/The Werewolf vs. the Vampire … Continue reading
The suburbs have frequently been portrayed in genre films not as place of cosy domestic safety but as a fertile breeding ground for the odd, the disturbing and the malcontent. For his follow up to the more rural based horrors of his impressive 2016 debut Without Name, Irish director Lorcan Finnegan edged into suburbia, re-imagining … Continue reading
Norman J. Warren had been in the lower orders of the British film industry since 1960, toiling away as a runner, assistant director and editor, before he eventually made his first feature film, Her Private Hell in 1968 (an earlier short film, Incident, had begun in 1959 but had been abandoned, finally being completed and … Continue reading
Curtis Harrington’s spotty but interesting career as a director was slowly drawing to a close by the time he made Ruby (aside from a short film, Usher (2000) and one more small screen television horror, Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell (1978) he had just a handful of television episodes and the not-terribly-impressive Mata Hari … Continue reading
