2010s
Plot: reality show contestants run afoul of escaped masked serial murderer. For reasons both inexplicable and incomprehensible the Playing with Dolls (2015-2017) franchise is Rene Perez’ most persistent property next to his zombie series The Dead and the Damned (2011-2015) and his penchant for reimagining classic European fairytales for mature
1970s
Plot: pious, virtuous nun is offered the temptations of the flesh by Satan. While it was Great Britain that had the dubious honour of kicking off the nunsploitation cycle with Ken Russell’s iconoclastic The Devils (1971), it were the most devout contries of continental Europe (Spain and Italy, in
2010s
Plot: eclectic group of urbanites is locked into a bar during a pandemic. When we were initially exposed to The Bar in 2018 there was excitement and electricity in the air as we were anxious to see Álex de la Iglesia return to the genre that made him famous, horror.
1990s
Plot: Charlie Case is a champion gymnast and a spy. Catch her if you can. Hawaiian trash specialist Albert Pyun was never below stretching budgets, cutting corners were he could, and he had an affinity for making up projects on the spot. He had learned an important lesson on The
2010s
Plot: dating in the modern world isn’t what it used to be. In his book If Chins Could Kill: Confessions Of A B-Movie Actor genre stalwart Bruce Campbell talks a great deal about what he refers to as Hollywood’s working stiffs, or blue-collar actors who just try to
1970s
Plot: novice nun is both tempting and tempted by a life of hedonism. When taking a closer look at the early years of Gloria Guida’s brief 8-year stint as comedy Lolita a curious pattern emerges. She was never going to be considered a highbrow comedic actress the way Laura
2010s
Plot: Xi Li-Ya vows to wreak havoc on One-Eyed for killing her father. The Return Of the Shelia (希莉娅归来) is the second part - more of a continuation rather than a true sequel - of Mad Shelia: Virgin Road (瘋狂希莉婭) (2016) from a year before. Since it came from the
1970s
Plot: trauma transforms demure small-town girl into gun-toting angel of death. Bo Arne Vibenius assistant – and second unit directed under Ingmar Bergman and Gunnar Hellström. He would direct only three movies, two of which were steeped in infamy and banned in his native Sweden. One of these movies was Thriller
2010s
Plot: alien lifeform rids the Earth of politicians, lawyers, lobbyists, and corporatists. Everybody’s favorite delusional Las Vegas Christian geek green-Marxist is back, and he’s now more unhinged and volatile than ever! Neil’s done playing nice. No more warnings, no more second chances. Our favorite “visionary” filmmaker of
1990s
Plot: diamond is stolen from high-profile target. LETHAL Ladies are on the case. Andy Sidaris closed the book on the original LETHAL Ladies franchise with Fit to Kill, the conclusion of the three-part Kane storyline and the last of the 5-picture deal that Sidaris brokered after the home video success
2000s
Plot: Tokyo is threatened by the Panther Claw. Can Cutie Honey save the day? The Far East has a long and storied history for being a haven for some of the strangest, wackiest cinematic outings of the past several decades. Whether they are the fantasy wuxia / martial arts romps from
2010s
Plot: horror-loving girl fights vampires with the help of a celebrity author. For nearly 40 years the hallowed house of Ramsay - Bollywood’s own seven-headed low-budget horror monstrosity - held a long tradition of aping popular American properties and reimagining them for Hindi sensibilities and catering to the retrograde