Henry Silva Archives

Cinderfella (1960)

Rating: ★★

Mar 2, 2002Sex-Reversed Cinderella Comedy

The popular fairytale has the sexes reversed and is reworked as a comedy vehicle for Jerry Lewis, although the upshot of this is that we get a Cinderella who is now a near-imbecilic Beverly Hills stepchild

Director: Frank Tashlin

Actors: Jerry Lewis, Ed Wynn, Henry Silva, Robert Hutton

Category: Fantasy

2 March 20026 July 2022 by Roog

The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Rating: ★★★★

Jul 9, 2000Brainwashed Assassin/Political Satire

John Frankenheimer film. concerning a Communist plot for creating a brainwashed assassin, Frankenheimer shoots with stark and blackly funny effect and this has duly become a cult classic

Director: John Frankenheimer

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury, James Gregory, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 July 20005 January 2025 by Roog

Matchless (1967)

Rating: ★★

Feb 8, 2023Spy Film/Invisibility Ring

One of the numerous spy films of the 1960s, featuring Patrick O’Neal who goes into action with a magic invisibility ring

Director: Alberto Lattuada

Actors: Patrick O'Neal, Donald Pleasence, Henry Silva, Howard St John

Category: Fantasy

8 February 20238 February 2023 by Roog

Black Noon (1971)

Rating: ★★

Jul 18, 2017Horror Western/Sinister Town Where No-One Can Leave

Classic tv movie that is one of the earliest horror/Westerns hybrids where Roy Thinnes plays a preacher who ends up in town only to find he cannot leave amid mysterious goings-on

Director: Bernard L. Kowalski

Actors: Roy Thinnes, Yvette Mimieux, Ray Milland, Lyn Loring, …

Category: Horror

18 July 20171 December 2025 by Roog

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1979)

Rating: ★★

Jul 12, 1999Space Opera/Man Unfrozen in the Future

In the aftermath of Star Wars, the comic-book/serial hero was revived in this heavily Star Wars influenced remake that was released theatrically and then served as the pilot of a tv series

Director: Daniel Haller

Actors: Gil Gerard, Pamela Hensley, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 July 19993 September 2025 by Roog

Thirst (1979)

Rating: ★★½

May 10, 2011Medical Vampires

Modest Australian film where Chantal Contouri is introduced to a secret vampire society that keeps human beings as cattle

Director: Rod Hardy

Actors: Chantal Contouri, David Hemmings, Rod Mullinar, Max Phipps, …

Category: Horror

10 May 201125 August 2021 by Roog

Alligator (1980)

Rating: ★★★

May 6, 1999Giant Alligator

Amid the spate of post-Jaws Animals Amok films, this, which comes armed with a John Sayles script and plays on the urban legend of baby alligators flushed into the sewers, was a rather enjoyable effort that plants tongue in cheek

Director: Lewis Teague

Actors: Robert Forster, Robin Riker, Henry Silva, Michael Gazzo, …

Category: Horror

6 May 19993 September 2025 by Roog

Megaforce (1982)

Rating: ★

Mar 18, 2002Hi-Tech Action Team

SF film about an international action team outfitted in hi-tech vehicles, this was a big bomb in its day

Director: Hal Needham

Actors: Barry Bostwick, Henry Silva, Persis Khambatta, Michael Beck, …

Category: Science Fiction

18 March 200229 June 2022 by Roog

Wrong is Right (1982)

Rating: ★★

Jun 10, 2002International Political Thriller/Stolen Nuclear Weaponry

A sprawling international political thriller/satire about stolen nuclear weapons starring Sean Connery as a journalist

Director: Richard Brooks

Actors: Sean Connery, John Saxon, Katharine Ross, George Grizzard, …

Category: Science Fiction

10 June 200227 November 2023 by Roog

Bronx Warriors II (1983)

Rating: ★★

May 2, 1999Future Gang Warfare

Enzo G. Castellari's sequel to his Escape from New York ripoff 1990: The Bronx Warriors and a most more polished and entertaining B action movie

Director: Enzo G. Castellari

Actors: Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Timothy Brent, Thomas Moore

Category: Science Fiction

2 May 199912 December 2025 by Roog

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1986)

Rating: ½

Feb 12, 2005Lost City Adventure

This is a sequel to Cannon Films' excruciating camp version of King Solomon's Mines. Richard Chamberlain and Sharon Stone are back. This is a marginal improvement but far from a good film

Director: Gary Nelson

Actors: Richard Chamberlain, Sharon Stone, James Earl Jones, Robert Donner, …

Category: Fantasy

12 February 20058 November 2025 by Roog

Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)

Rating: ★★

Jun 1, 1999Anthology of Comedy Skits & Genre Parodies

An anthology of comedy skits from several different directors including Joe Dante and John Landis. The result is fairly scattershot with moments of occasional humour falling between laughs that do not come off

Director: Carl Gottlieb, Joe Dante, John Landis, Peter Horten, Robert K. Weiss

Actors: Arsenio Hall, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rosanna Arquette, Monique Gabrielle, …

Category: Science Fiction

1 June 199930 December 2025 by Roog

Possessed By the Night (1994)

Rating: ★

Jul 15, 2002Mind-Controlling Creature

B-budget dircetor Fred Olen Ray has taken the plot of Gremlins and thrown it together with one of his sofctore erotic films in which a mind-controlling goblin creature forces people to have sex

Director: Fred Olen Ray

Actors: Shannon Tweed, Sandahl Bergman, Ted Prior, Chad McQueen, …

Category: Horror

15 July 200223 December 2021 by Roog