Under the Radar DVD of the Week: “The Navy vs. the Night Monsters”
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “The Navy vs. the Night Monsters” The influence of low-budget horrormeister Roger Corman is all over this campy 1966 sci-fi thriller, out in a...
View ArticleDVD review: ‘Humanoids from the Deep’
Come with us now to those thrilling drive-in days of yesteryear, when the concession stands vended mystery-meat burgers and stale, fake-butter-soaked popcorn, windshields were steamed with passion, and...
View ArticleDVD review: ‘Roger Corman’s Cult Classics Triple Feature: Sci-Fi Classics’
Good or bad, the movies of producer-director Roger “King of the B’s” Corman are almost always fun to watch, just to see all the different visual and narrative gimmicks he devises to deliver the popcorn...
View ArticleUnder the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘Sharktopus’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “Sharktopus” Legendary schlock producer Roger Corman is up to his old tricks in “Sharktopus,” a tongue-in-cheek creature from the deep thriller...
View ArticleDVD review: ‘Dementia 13′
Nine years before “The Godfather” turned Francis Ford Coppola into a made man in the movie business, the Don of the B movies, Roger Corman, gave him a shot at directing his first mainstream feature....
View ArticleDVD review: ‘The Terror’
“The Terror” (1963) is another Roger Corman quickie that exists only because the busy B-movie king had just finished a picture ahead of schedule and under budget (in this case “The Raven”), the sets...
View ArticleDVD review: ‘Spine Tingler! The William Castle Story’
Director, producer, writer and sometime actor William Castle has often been labeled a “schlockmeister” for the renegade, low-budget quality of his pictures. But to a generation of horror fans and...
View ArticleDVD review: ‘Trailers From Hell: Volume 2′
If there are places you remember, as the old Beatles song goes, such as the Twilight Gardens Drive-In (where we saw “A Hard Day’s Night,” 10 of us in a Ford Fairlane, half of us hidden in the trunk...
View ArticleUnder the Radar DVD of the Week: ‘Produce Your Own Damn Movie!’
This week, the oddest DVD to appear on release lists is: “Produce Your Own Damn Movie!” You’d be hard pressed to find someone who knows his way around a low-budget, independent film shoot better than...
View ArticleUnder the Radar DVDs: 2011′s oddest of the odd
Each week sees literally hundreds of new releases on DVD. Big-bucks advertising and studio clout propel sales of the most high-profile DVDs. But the oddball releases that fly under the radar are often...
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