Flick of the Week: She-Freak (1967)

Also known as Alley of Nightmares; Freaks!; or Asylum of the Insane. Premiered on May 3, 1967 in Minneapolis(?) Shot in 10 days on a $65,000 budget Screen debut of the late Bill (“Scream Like a Pig!”) McKinney    

My Bottom Five First-Time Watches of 2014

I do love the terrible movies, but sometimes there are those that make you guzzle the palette-cleanser afterwards. Here are some of the worst films I saw last year, as told to Mike and Iris at the Badasses, Boobs, and Bodycounts podcast. Here are my faves of last year. Spoilers ensue, so reader beware. 1.

Gappa Angry!

I think it’s fair to say that this film scrapes the bottom of the kaiju barrel, being something of a cheap knock-off of several other films, such as Rodan, Godzilla vs. The Thing, King Kong vs. Godzilla, and especially Gorgo. Gappa features a mostly incoherent plot punctuated by shot-for-shot remakes from the above-named films. Nothing new under

60 Years of Godzilla Trailers!

To celebrate the release of the highly anticipated Godzilla film this weekend, here are the trailers of 29 previous Toho films. I don’t include non-Toho films here, especially the highly-despised 1998 Matthew Broderick version, and I’m not a kaiju-guru enough to know if this list is complete.  But it at least gets us a good start

Remembering Alexandra Hay (1947-1993)

Twenty years ago today we lost actress Alexandra Hay.  She died of a heart-related condition at the much too-young age of 46. She’s best known, perhaps, for her starring role in 1,000 Convicts and a Woman.  She got her start as a a model at the age of 12, but when her mother passed away when