Massacre At Central High (1976)

Reading about Massacre At Central High (1976) in Danny Peary’s Cult Movies 2 when I was in high school, leafing through the copy in the school library, really disturbed me. The details of its plot and its accompanying photos made me think of it as a low budget sicko movie about teens killing each other […]

Walking The Edge (1985)

Walking The Edge (1985) had been discussed so much on the Pure Cinema Podcast that when Fun City Editions put out their Blu-ray, I had to get a copy. Mid-1980s revenge thriller starring the late, great Robert Forster? I’m there! Factor in lots of driving scenes across LA and a pumping synth-and-sax score by Jay […]

Blood Feast (1963)

Herschell Gordon Lewis is a name I’ve often heard about but never really been keen to explore; the archetypal still from one of his 1960s-era movies in my mind’s eye is a leering sadist at a table where a nubile woman is submerged in shiny guts and paint-thick blood. Much like Troma cinema, I’m happy […]

The Violent Years (1956)

Sometimes you need to skip the Mystery Science Theater 3000 commentary and just enjoy an Edward D. Wood Jr scripted exploration of white female teenage juvenile delinquency on its own beautiful merits. This is The Violent Years (1956), which is a remarkable insight into what happens to teenage girls who are not given the right […]

Blackjack (1998)

“Directed by John Woo” was what the DVD cover advertised. I remember seeing Blackjack (1998) in video stores as a kid and thinking that was a gag – wasn’t Woo’s last movie Face/Off a big hit? Why was his name brandishing a direct-to-video Dolph Lundgren action movie? Turns out Blackjack was a TV pilot that […]