Things To Come is a very obscure 1976 softcore sex science fiction film which has been released by the American Genre Film Archive (paired with The Dirty Dolls) in their…

The Magic Blade is a 1976 Shaw Brothers swordplay movie directed by Yuen Chor. It starts with two master swordsmen, Fu Hung Hsieh and Yen Nan-fei, taking up a duel…

Night of Open Sex (La noche de los sexos abiertos) is a 1983 Jess Franco movie that springs a few surprises. It’s not quite what it initially appears to be.…

The Police are Blundering in the Dark is a 1974 Italian feature written and directed by Helia Colombo and it appears to be his only film credit. It’s easy to…

In the late 1960s Japan’s Shochiku studio made a short-lived and rather tentative attempt to break into the booming market for science fiction, horror and monster movies. Four of these…

Almost Human (Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare) is a 1974 poliziottesco directed by Umberto Lenzi. This is the first of half a dozen poliziotteschi Lenzi made with star…

The Possessed (La donna del lago) is included in Arrow’s Giallo Essentials Red Blu-Ray boxed set. It’s supposed to be a proto-giallo and I generally enjoy proto-giallos (or proto-gialli) even…

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable, released in 1973, was the third of the Female Prisoner Scorpion movies. Once again Meiko Kaji is the star and Shunya Itō is the director.…

Monster on the Campus is a 1958 science fiction monster movie but it includes the words “directed by Jack Arnold” in the credits and that always inspires confidence. No matter…

In the late 60s Japan’s Shochiku studio made a short-lived and tentative attempt to break into the booming market for science fiction, horror and monster movies. Criterion’s Eclipse Series 37…

Prince of Darkness is a 1987 movie written and directed by John Carpenter that could be described as a return to the supernatural horror of The Fog but with some…

The Haunting, released in 1963, has the reputation of being one of the best ghost movies ever made. There was a remake in 1999 which I haven’t seen and don’t…

Blood: The Last Vampire is a fascinating anime film that, with its running time of 48 minutes, is not quite a feature film. It was shot in a mixture of…

Event Horizon is a 1997 Anglo-American-Canadian science fiction/horror movie that starts off as a blatant rip-off of Alien but then heads off in a totally new direction. In 2040 the…

Hardware is a 1990 post-apocalyptic science fiction-action-horror movie that borrows heavily from other movies in these genres. There’s nothing original about the ideas but the execution is interesting if a…

Gor is a 1987 American science fiction/fantasy adventure film from the Cannon Group. It was shot in South Africa. It is based on Tarnsman of Gor, the first of John…

Viy is a 1967 Soviet gothic horror film. There was in fact a long tradition of Russian films about the supernatural. One thing I can say for certain, there has…

Ninja Scroll is a 1993 anime film written and directed by one of the anime greats, Yoshiaki Kawajiri. It combines action, adventure, swordplay, fantasy and horror and it is very…