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The event of the summer for exploitation film collectors
is Al Adamson: The Masterpiece
Collection, a jaw-dropping 14-disc set from Severin Films that includes a
whopping 32 films. Making one’s way through such a […]

This is Rush… but not the way you know it. There are
no tricky time signatures, brainy lyrics, keyboard embellishments, side-length
epics or mathematically complex Neil Peart drum fills to be found here. […]

“A
Hard Day’s Night meets Star Wars”: this is how Bill Aucoin,
manager of Kiss, pitched the t.v. film Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park to
the band. What they ended up with made no one happy: the band hated it, […]

After waxing the classic Argus, Wishbone Ash found themselves a short distance from becoming
one of the world’s top rock bands.  Wishbone Four was the follow-up and
showed they weren’t afraid to defy […]

If you love cinema in that orgiastic, “explore all
avenues” way that defines cult movie obsession, there’s an above average
chance that you also love the art of the movie trailer. The best ones offer a
way to […]

Kiss’s non-makeup years started in 1983 and came to a
close in 1996 with the reunion of the original four-member group. It’s a short
period in the context of their overall history but it was the do-or-die time […]

It’s ironic that Kiss, the most visuals-conscious hard
rock act of their era, had taken off their famous makeup by the time MTV really
got rolling. During the rise of MTV, Kiss found themselves in a […]

If there’s a subgenre of the exploitation film that was tailor-made for the movie trailer, it’s got to be blaxploitation. These films not only were often filled with action, wild plotting and eye-popping threads, […]

If you were directing exploitation movies between 1972
and 1976, there was an above-average chance you would make at least one
blaxploitation movie. Tons of top talent from the exploitation cinema […]

In the latter half of the twentieth century, rock and
roll slowly, gradually shifted from novelty youth music to enduring
institution. The musicians involved in this scene had to learn the business the
hard way […]

In 1975, Rudy Ray Moore became an unlikely success at the boxoffice with Dolemite.  Three years later, he made Disco Godfather: he considers this to be the choice that killed his moviemaking career.  Aside from a […]

If a band is lucky, they achieve a moment where their
ambitions, abilities and communication merge into a kind of alchemy that
produces a perfect album. In the middle of this moment, all the songs will come
out […]

Zombie occupies a special place in the hearts of horror fans of a certain age. It was the first taste of Italian horror for some of these fans, one that was sold to them in a lurid manner not too different from […]

If you’re lucky, you will have a “road to
Damascus” moment as a cult fan where you realize that a film’s
entertainment value matters as much as whether it is objectively
“good” or “bad.”  For
a moment, put aside […]

It took a few decades but the members of Kiss’s original lineup have all written their autobiographies. Gene Simmons wrote an amusingly egocentric light read, Peter Criss wrote the dishiest one and Ace Frehley […]

Police
Story’s third season offered a number of standout episodes
that explore police work from unique angles, showing off both the flaws and
positive elements of the way things work for officers at different […]

Actor, writer and filmmaker Mike Malloy is a Friend Of Schlockmania so the site likes to pass on news about his latest doings. He recently began collaborating with Rebeller, a website dedicated to “Outlaw Cinema” […]

One of the coolest promotional trends in rock music
during the ’70s was the promo live album. Record companies would distribute
these to radio stations exclusively so deejays could have unique programming […]

Dolemite had a lot going for it: kung fu prostitutes, a killer funk score and the inimitable presence of comedian-turned-inner-city-movie-star Rudy Ray Moore. It was missing just one thing: energy in the […]