Category: movies

  • Manos: The Hands of Fate Review

    Recently, I discovered over on Twitch TV that Elvira has a channel with various re-runs of her old Macabre shows. As it runs 24/7 (not sure how long), I decided to click over to see what was playing and learned that it was none other than the cult-not-exactly-but-a-classic-in-itself Manos: The Hands of Fate. I honestly…

  • Attack of the Killer Tomatoes Review

    In doing my old school, bad movie night time of deal, I found Attack of the Killer Tomatoes over on Amazon Prime for free at the moment. Admittedly, I had only seen this movie perhaps once and I can’t recall if I saw it in full. I do remember certain parts possibly due to it…

  • Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype Review

    In my quest to rediscover various key moments from my youth, I had been searching for a particularly old horror movie shown on one of Elvira’s late night shows that would pop up on channel 9 (or maybe it was 5). I had only a very vague recollection of the movie in that it involved…

  • Silent Night, Bloody Night Review

    I’ve been trying to find an ancient movie from the old Elvira series that I had viewed at least once or twice in my youth. In trying to sort through foggy, vague memories and poor descriptions, I stumbled across one movie that potentially resembled a few notions that might’ve matched in Silent Night, Bloody Night.…

  • Alien: The Relevance of Time

    Time is one aspect in the Alien series that has been inconsistent especially when it relates to the xenomorph’s biology. While perusing a few articles on the subject of the xenomorph’s biology, one thing stands out is that the incubation process has been listed as anywhere between a few minutes to hours. Probably, the worst…

  • Shaw Brothers The Rebel Intruders Movie Review

    Yet another Shaw Brothers / Chang Cheh / Venoms mob movie is up for review here. This was one of the last Venoms mob movies with the classical line up (minus Snake / Wai Pak) as more Venoms style movies would focus on Philip Kwok, Chiang Sheng and Lu Feng as the core group. Also,…

  • Shaw Brothers Martial Club Movie Review

    This is another Gordon Liu/Lau Kar-Leung classic where Gordon Liu reprises his role as Wong Fei Hung in a story about a conflict between three schools. This movie is a little less focused at times compared to other Lau Kar-Leung movies but the final fight scene is where I think this movie shines the most.

  • The Secret of the Shaolin Poles Movie Review

    I debated whether or not to write up a review for this movie as (to put it in spoilers) I found it to be a really bad movie. This wasn’t a Godfrey Ho it’s so ridiculously nonsensical that it’s a bad movie that becomes great because of the nonsense. It’s more just a boring, poorly…

  • Shaw Brothers Ten Tigers of Kwangtung Movie Review

    I have been meaning to post a review of this movie for some time but never had gotten around to it. It’s one of those movies that’s both memorable and forgettable at the same time. Part of the issue is the confusing narrative where the story is split into two time periods with two separate…

  • The Shanghai Thirteen Movie Review

    Despite having numerous Shaw Brothers alumni and Chang Cheh as the director, The Shanghai Thirteen (1984) was not a Shaw Brothers production. Instead, it was produced by someone named Chan Hsi-Fan, whom I don’t recognize, and was written by Chang Cheh himself. I read elsewhere that around this period, Chang Cheh was 60 and nearing…