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From 1954 to the early ’70s, comics publishers kept a
tight rein on the horror genre to avoid the kind of Senate
investigation-inspiring trouble that horror comics got into during the early
’50s glory days of […]

For roughly a decade, starting with Bloodsport in 1988 and ending sometime around Knock Off in 1998, Jean-Claude Van Damme was one of the world’s top
action film stars. He racked up plenty of fun programmers […]

After 60 entries, each boasting a dozen
Schlockmania-penned short film reviews, the AMG Dirty Dozen series arrives at
its close here. This post offers the last of Schlockmania’s reviews penned for
All Movie Guide […]

Author’s
Disclosure: I’m friends with Mark Savage so don’t think of what follows as a review.
Consider it more of an essay, a response to the work informed by what I’ve
learned through my interactions with Mark. […]

In Dolemite Is My Name, there’s a fun scene where Rudy Ray Moore (played by Eddie Murphy) rattles off the ingredients he wants to have in his debut motion picture to the earnest, socially conscious playwright […]

It’s funny how you sometimes develop respect for
something you first thought was just a cultural oddity. Schlockmania first
experienced Rudy Ray Moore’s films in college as party movies, the kind of
thing that […]

It’s the day after Thanksgiving, a perfect time for
recovering from feasting and other holiday-related celebrating with a nice
couchside movie marathon. With that in mind, Schlockmania presents a new AMG
Dirty […]

When is a giallo not a giallo?  When it is The Pyjama Girl Case.  It is
a murder mystery and it does boast an ensemble cast of strange, often twisted
characters… but it also has a body count of two and keeps i […]

Mott The Hoople and its fans were dealt a serious blow
when the group’s drummer, Dale “Buffin” Griffin, passed away on
January 17, 2016. Not only was he a superb drummer and a talented producer, he
was also the […]

The peak period for the giallo film was arguably the
first half of the ’70s: Dario Argento made a string of gialli that became
popular around the world, inspiring a wave of like-minded films that […]

November’s midpoint has arrived so it’s time for another
AMG Dirty Dozen. Five of the selections in this round-up are made-for-t.v.
movies, covering everything from the disturbing chronicle of a mass murderer […]

It’s amazing how far the zombie movie has come in the
last few decades. It’s gone from a cult fave subgenre for horror fans to one of
the most reliable commercial trends for all levels of the horror […]

Vice
Squad is one of the exploitation classics of the 1980’s. It’s
got the right combination of sleaze and style, it hits as hard as an
exploitation classic is supposed to hit and it’s topped off by an […]

Disaster movies have been with us since the silent film
era but common wisdom has the prime era of disaster movies beginning in 1970
with Airport.  However, a long-in-development epic released
the previous year […]

It’s two days until Halloween.  October is the one month where the general
public gets into spooky pursuits so you’ve got to mainline that vibe as much as
you can to carry you through the other eleven, […]

If you’re interested in the subversive side of genre
cinema, Nikkatsu’s “Roman Porno” era is a fascinating subject for
study. This was ostensibly a line of sexploitation films but they were often
subverted by […]

Volume by volume, the 42nd Street Forever Peep Show Collection has stacked up the entries
to become a mainstay of the Impulse Pictures library. In fact, the series has amassed
thirty volumes since its debut in […]

If you are a bibliophile with a yen for vintage
paperbacks from the less respectable side of the tracks –  men’s action novels, horror books, tabloid
cash-ins and the adult paperbacks kept in “the back room” – […]

Eclecticism is often the name of the game with the AMG Dirty Dozen. This installment is no different. This time you’ve got an underrated cop flick with Jeff Bridges that plays like an indie movie version of Miami […]