1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982)
Sep 5, 2002Future Gang Warfare
An Italian exploitation film about gangs fighting in the ruins of a future New York. Director Enzo G. Catsellari has ripped off both Escape from New York and The Warriors
Fred Williamson
Rome 2072 (1983)
Apr 23, 2026Future Gladiatorial Combat
Lucio Fulci was a cult Italian horror director. This was the only occasion that Fulci visited the SF film, a low-budget ripoff of Rollerball by way of Mad Max featuring futuristic gladiatorial games
The New Barbarians (1983)
Dec 6, 2002Post-Holocaust
One of a number of Italian-made copies of Mad Max 2 from Enzo G. Castellari. This is cheap and in some of the writing and dialogue frequently laughable
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)
Oct 19, 2002Getaway Thriller/Vampire Bar
Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino combine forces on a film that begins as a getaway thriller and then abruptly morphs into a vampire film. This has a smart edginess to it but the vampire scenes have not dated well
Full Tilt Boogie (1997)
Jul 11, 2007The Making of From Dusk Till Dawn
A documentary shot during the making of From Dusk Till Dawn, which gets to the heart of the issues in ways most making of documentaries don't
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Jun 2, 2021Pagan Child Cult
Quite who the audience for these Children of the Corn films is that they keep making more of them is a mystery. This was the fifth of eleven films and at least better than the last two entries
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Jul 27, 1999Cyborg Cop/Cartoon in Live-Action
A live-action adaptation of the popular animated series, one of the spate of such films made after the live-action The Flintstones. Amiably silly and frequently slapstick fun that proves to be exactly what one expects of it
American Grindhouse (2010)
Oct 9, 2010Exploitation Cinema Documentary
A documentary that charts the history of exploitation cinema and covers much ground generally informatively despite the odd omission of some key works and players
King Cohen (2017)
Jan 3, 2023Genre Director Documentary
A documentary about cult director Larry Cohen, best known for It's Alive and other works. This is filled with hilariously entertaining stories of his guerrilla film-making methods
VFW (2019)
Apr 29, 2024Barroom Under Siege from Crazed Drug Addicts
Joe Begos makes an ultra-violent homage to John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 with a group of war veterans in a bar at siege against a horde of crazed drug addicts outside
Devil’s Triangle (2021)
Sep 22, 2022Adventures in Atlantis
An adventure potboiler from The Asylum about the crew of a plane who pass through the Bermuda Triangle to end up in Atlantis just as the Atlanteans prepare to declare war on the surface world