1970s
Plot: did it all truly happen, or is it merely in Lena’s head? The best thing you can say in retrospect about Christina Lindberg is that she knew exactly where her strengths lie. Lindberg was a nude model first and she never got a hang of acting no matter
2010s
Plot: princess Aurora falls into a deep slumber. Can a warrior save the kingdom? No doubt filmed in response to Casper van Dien’s Sleeping Beauty (2014) and shot on a budget that couldn’t possibly have extended beyond a few Twinkies, some Skittles, and whatever pocketchange was on hand
2010s
Plot: in a barbaric world one warrior must fulfill an ancient prophecy. There are but two demographics who were really receptive to embracing the practice of DIY filmmaking, stunt actors and horror/science fiction enthusiasts. That not everybody can be a Sam Raimi, Peter Jackson, or Tsui Hark was a
1980s
Plot: cyborg flees into the desert after ignoring his programming. Hands Of Steel (released domestically as Vendetta dal Futuro, and in France as Atomic Cyborg) answers the question that nobody asked: what if The Terminator (1984) ignored his programming, fled into the Arizona desert and took up armwrestling in some
2010s
Plot: archeology students unleash spirit of cursed mummy. Isis Rising: Curse Of the Lady Mummy (hereafter Isis Rising) is probably the worst mummy movie this side of Dawn Of the Mummy (1981) and Paul Naschy’s veritably insane The Mummy’s Revenge (1975) (which at least had the good grace
1960s
Plot: ballerinas are stalked by vampire in an old opera house. The Monster Of the Opera is the last in a very loose ballerina trilogy and was preceded by the kitschy The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960) and The Vampire and the Ballerina (1960). It was initially conceived as a
2000s
Plot: alien lifeform rids the Earth of politicians, lawyers, and corporations. I Am Here…. Now is the second of Neil Breen’s religious-patriotic-jingoistic supernatural thrillers and the one where all beloved Breenisms coagulated into their known form. As a faux-New Age spiritualist interpretation of The Day the Earth Stood Still
1990s
Plot: Asian crimelord hunts LETHAL Ladies in Hawaii, Las Vegas, and Louisiana. The Sidaris formula starts to wear thin in Do Or Die, the fifth episode of the LETHAL Ladies franchise. It doesn’t have quite the same vivacity that earlier installments had and the entire production has a very
2010s
Plot: beach babes defend their favorite resort from greedy developers. Before Kick Ass Girls (2013) there was Beach Spike, or a Mainland China sports movie that is part Sunset Cove (1978) (without the rampant nudity), part Shaolin Soccer (2001) or Blue Crush (2002), and all fun. Instead of surfing or
2010s
Plot: behold the new model to fight the cyborg oppressor. Once upon a time Hawaiian shlockmeister Albert Pyun directed Nemesis (1992), a low budget action movie that placed film noire characters in a dystopian cyberpunk setting with the style, swagger, and gunplay of some of John Woo’s best explosive
2000s
Plot: supernatural murderer spreads terror in metropolitan Newcastle. Great Britain has a rich and storied history in horror and cult cinema spanning several decades. In the fifties and sixties Hammer Film dominated the market. Amicus and Tigon came close behind but only flourished when Hammer began ailing in the seventies.
1990s
Plot: kickboxer avenges the death of his brother. At one point in the mid-nineties Albert Pyun was the go-to guy for cheapo kickboxing movies. Sure, he was no Cirio H. Santiago, but who is? Santiago was the master of topless kickboxing with TNT Jackson (1974), the self-proclaimed “first erotic kung