Savages (1972)
May 11, 2003Savage Tribe Inexplicably Become Aristocrats
James Ivory and Ismail Merchant are usually known for their arthouse works. This is their strangest film where a group of savages discover a mansion and adopt civilised ways
Martin Kove
The Last House on the Left (1972)
May 1, 2001Sadism and Revenge
Wes Craven's first film, a savage shock to the system about a group of psychopaths that brutalise two girls. With this, Craven created the Backwoods Brutality film and many works that followed showed the 60s Flower Children being tortured and killed; this is still one of the best of the cycle
Death Race 2000 (1975)
Aug 6, 2000Future Road Race/Black Comedy
Satiric hit produced by Roger Corman, a spoof of Rollerball, with David Carradine as a driver in a futuristic road race where points are won by running down pedestrians. Also featuring a young unknown Sylvester Stallone
White Light (1991)
Dec 17, 2007Return from the Afterlife Thriller
Cheap badly directed film starring Martin Kove as detective who is shot but comes back haunted by visions of the afterlife
Project: Shadowchaser (1992)
Feb 6, 2000Android Terrorist
Completely ridiculous mix of The Terminator and Die Hard where, for no clear reason, an android terrorist decides to take hostages in an office building and the FBI’s only hope is a cryogenically unfrozen football player
Judge and Jury (1996)
Mar 2, 1999Executed Killer Returns
Ridiculous supernatural action film with a madly overacting David Keith as an executed killer returned from the dead
Curse of the Forty Niner (2002)
Dec 21, 2023Resurrected Prospector Seeks Vengeance
Makeup effects man John Carl Buechler directs a film about a resurrected prospector come to enact vengeance against those seeking his gold claim
Seven Mummies (2006)
Jan 19, 2007Western Ghost Town
Horror film where escaped convicts wander into a Western ghost town where a gold treasure is guarded by mummies
Joker’s Wild (2016)
Apr 24, 2019Theatre Haunted by Killer Clowns
Completely ridiculous killer clown film that has a theatre haunted by clowns but erases the line between reality and illusion so much that nothing makes any sense. Even more absurdly, it becomes a preachy diatribe in favour of Second Amendment rights to gun ownership
2 Lava 2 Lantula (2016)
Apr 27, 2018Giant Fire-Breathing Spiders
Lavalantula with Steve Guttenberg facing giant fire-breathing spiders was a modestly enjoyable creature feature. This sequel feels like a Sharknado wannabe with shittier effects and an unfunny sense of humour
VFW (2019)
Apr 29, 2024Barroom Under Siege from Crazed Drug Addicts
An ultra-violent homage to John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 with a group of veterans in a bar at siege against a horde of crazed drug addicts outside
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters (2020)
Feb 20, 2022Videogamers vs Unleashed Demonic Entity
Videogamers fight a demonic entity unleashed from a 1980s game. A film that is far more fun that you expect and comes loaded with videogaming in-jokes