*contains spoilers The H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, if you want to call them that, of Italian director Ivan Zuccon (1972-) are interesting horror. There is a trio of films which I have seen and they comprise of The Shunned House (2003 shot on video), Colour from the Dark (2008) and Herbert West: Re-Animator (2017). The best…
Read more Director Ivan Zuccon’s H.P. Lovecraft Italian Style
*contains spoilers Australian cinema remained in the doldrums for decades after its heady days in the 1930s and it wasn’t until the early 1970s thanks to some funding from the Federal Government that filmmaking got underway again in the country. One of the handful of films which kicked off this renaissance in Aussie filmmaking was…
Read more The First Real Aussie Cult Film was Sandy Harbutt’s Stone
Writer/Director Michael Farkas went to USC to study film. He quickly went on the make his first feature movie Prime Risk (1985) which has become a cult movie. After Prime Risk, he spent several years developing new scripts, then moved from Los Angeles back to Washington D.C. in 1988 where he opened Infocus Communications, a…
Read more Writer/Director Michael Farkas on his Cult Movie Prime Risk
*contains spoilers There is a film I’ve seen a great number of times because I like the plot and I like the look and personality of its young star despite the fact she is not a great actress. She is great anyway! The film is the little-known Prime Risk (1985) and the actress is Toni…
*contains spoilers When we talk about the early films of Canadian director David Cronenberg (1943-), most of us will immediately think of Shivers (1975), Rabid (1977), The Brood (1979) and Scanners (1981). But his first features were a couple of interesting ones made in the late 1960s and early 1970s entitled Stereo (1969) and Crimes…
*contains spoilers If there is a career which ended with a bad movie it is that of actor Ray Milland (1907-86 lung cancer). The Welsh actor began his career in the late 1920s and he won an Oscar for his portrayal as an alcoholic in the classic Billy Wilder directed movie The Lost Weekend (1945).…
Read more Actor Ray Milland Meets The Sea Serpent (Part One)
*contains spoilers Most people probably prefer the Anaconda (1997) movie and its sequels and there’s no denying the original is quite a good one, but I have three snake tales that I can watch over again and still get a thrill. The first is the film Rattlers (1976), which starts off with a couple of…
Read more The Cult of Actor Sam Chew Jr. in Rattlers (1976) Part One
*contains spoilers Coda (1987) aka Symphony of Evil aka Deadly Possession and Strangers (1991) are two films directed by South Australian director Craig Lahiff (1947-2014). The titles of his movies were often one word and the pair of movies are often described by critics as sub-Hitchcock. I think they deserve more praise than that, considering…
Read more Craig Lahiff’s Aussie Hitchcockian Double Bill (Part One)
*contains spoilers In 1969, Larry had a bit part in the Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr vehicle The Magic Christian. A film which poses the question that people will do anything for money, it is extremely over the top and quite funny. Set in England, Larry plays a Shakespearian actor doing Hamlet, who is bribed…
Read more The Cult of Laurence Harvey Forever a Dandy in Aspic (Part Two)
*contains spoilers He is the head of Australian International Pictures, and it is no coincidence that it sounds like Roger Corman’s American International Pictures. Adelaide-based filmmaker Wayne Groom produced his first independent movie in the early 80s with a film on a microbudget which still sent him broke. It was unfortunate because what low-budget dreams…
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