Mainstream showbiz does not have a monopoly on hype. Any sector of the entertainment business, big or small, can manufacture a phenomenon within its own scene ...
If you want to delve into schlock scholarship, watching and interpreting esoteric cult cinema is just the beginning. Once you fall under the spell of schlock f...
Motown tried hard to make inroads into the rock and roll audience in the early 1970's. Most of these efforts fell by the wayside but one band managed to carve ...
No one was more pumped up for a new ninja epic than me. I've loved martial arts-themed anything since childhood. With the supernatural/comic-book angles of th...
You will frequently see Your Humble Reviewer throwing the adjective "AOR" around in this blog's Schlock-O-Phonic review section. This acronym-turned-term is th...
The second installment of the Basic Schlock Bookshelf lifts us up from the underground and into tonier, more high-minded territory. This might make your inner ...
The massive glut of slasher films unleashed during the first half of the 1980's tend to linger in the collective unconscious of horror fans. Everybody into thi...
Like a missing link that is unearthed hundreds of years after the fact to perfectly bridge the gap between two different species, this best-of album represents ...
I've always felt like I should like Roland Emmerich's films more than I actually do, mainly because I love the disaster movie genre. The Poseidon Adventure is ...
It took a long time for Your Humble Reviewer to develop the aesthetic that fuels this website. A key part of that development came from reading about cult movi...
This is a strange one, even by schlock-rock standards – imagine a cross between Rush and Led Zeppelin (plus a dash of Yes), complete with a lead singer who has ...
Hollywood's latest stab at the tech-driven "high concept" thriller goes through the motions in slam-bang style and still manages to feel dead-on-arrival. In S...
Schlockmaniac #1, alias Your Humble Reviewer.
The person behind this affront to High Culture is Don Guarisco. He has a BFA Degree in Film from Florida State University and has written professionally about pop culture for over a decade. His work in the online arena includes reviews and essays for Yesterdayland (now known as Retroland), All Music Guide, All Movie Guide, AVManiacs and The Temple Of Schlock. His reviews have also been published in several All Music Guide publications and DVD Delirium 3.
