If you were an Italian genre filmmaker who could get a production going in the first half of the ’80s,…
The original Battlestar Galactica was like a comet in television terms, hitting the public consciousness with a conspicuous amount of…
The success of Star Wars inspired many space operas on both the big and little screens. The most notable and…
Schlockmania’s Severin Films-assisted journey into the Andy Milligan oeuvre comes to a close with this installment. After three entries offering…
A frequent accusation aimed at Andy Milligan is that his work is artless: indifferently shot and edited, erratically performed, riddled…
Much is made of the ragged nature of Andy Milligan’s films in horror/grindhouse circles, which was a reflection of him…
Historically speaking, no one ever had a kind word for grindhouse auteur Andy Milligan. During his lifetime, he was slagged…
Author’s Disclosure: I’m friends with Mark Savage, the director of Painkiller, so it wouldn’t be fair to me to present…
Bruce Campbell is beloved to the b-movie fanbase because there’s a blue collar appeal to him. He never achieved superstardom…
One of the most lovable things about Italian genre filmmaking in their ’70s/early ’80s glory era is they took advantage…
Few Hollywood movies caused as much furor in the early 1980’s as Red Dawn. Its “Communist invasion” premise seemed to…
(Author’s Disclosure: I’m an acquaintance of Christopher Bickel, the filmmaker behind this project. After enjoying his debut film The Theta…